[NAME] is excited to release Erosia, a stellar new LP by Miami-based visual and sound artist Dino Felipe, marking the artist’s first record release in more than a decade. Felipe is an artist that [NAME] has been engaged with and exhibited over the years, and the production and publication of Erosia represents a continuation of our long-term support for his experimental practice.

Dino Felipe (born February 27, 1978) is a Miami-based recording artist of Cuban descent. Deemed a “sound wizard” by Pitchfork, he is known primarily for the varying textures of his music, which can simultaneously resemble experimental noise, post-punky cold wave, lo-fi pop, digital bebop and danceable rhythms. He has also recorded with FKTRN, Hair & Nails, Old Bombs, and participated in several other collaborative projects. He generally makes music using home recording techniques and electronic drums, guitars, bass guitar, a Korg SH-202, FX Processors, Vocals, and various computer software.

Felipe began recording music at the age of six and continued into his teenage years, releasing his first cassettes on noise labels such as Spite, White Tapes, Freedom From, and CDs on Public Eyesore with FKTRN, Hair & Nails and Fantasy Roxx. Notoriously prolific, Felipe has released and made appearances on 49 albums as of 2010, only half of which are catalogued on his Discogs page. Since 1999, he has collaborated and released with a number of musicians including Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, (as Felipe and Forté), Carlos Giffoni (as Old Bombs), and Wolf Eyes. In 2010, musician R. Stevie Moore recorded a cover of Dino Felipe’s “Been Waiting” on his 2010 album, Space Bar.

In 2003, Felipe performed at the Sonic Lights Festival in Amsterdam along with Maryanne Amacher and at the Transmediale music festival in Berlin. In 2005, Finesse & Runway performed at the cultures Electroni festival in France.

Also a visual artist, Felipe works with a variety of media and creates most of his own album art. In 2010, his installation Desert Animals was showcased as part of the the end/SPRING BREAK project in Miami. In 2008, he was commissioned, along with Miami-based artist Federico Nessi and as part of art collective Psychic Youth, Inc to create a mural for local record store Sweat Records. In 2007, three pages of his work were published in Penny-Ante Book #2. As part of his work in the visual arts, he designs tee-shirts by hand and alters jeans under a homegrown clothing line, Shirts & Schtuff Inc., all of which he sells from home.

In 2023, his one-person show “Wigs on Trees” was held at [NAME]. https://namepublications.org/dino-felipe-wigs-on-trees/ This is what Artforum had to say about it:  https://www.artforum.com/events/dino-felipe-251039/

Dino Felipe’s Erosia is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Florida Department of State | Division of Arts & Culture, Teiger Foundation and The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.