Caybee Calabash is a nonsense surrealist electronic musician from Derby, England. World reviled for his constant ear assaults, he operates in the genres of drill 'n bass / breakcore, progressive electronic, psychedelia, noise, glitch, and other genres that normal people have never heard of. Caybee is most well known as one half of the breakcore band bagel fanclub along with fellow LSD casualty River Everett, but he works under various solo aliases such as apollo bitrate, as well as formerly making music under names like Polyscia, CHAOS//BARISTA, and SLUTPUNK!, which have been discontinued for various different reasons.
Caybee has issued records on various different netlabels, such as First Class Collective and Fakenumberland, but he predominantly resides on Retrac Recordings, regularly issuing lots of cassettes and CDs. He is also in the process of launching a vanity label to release projects he's worked on / collaborations he's been part of / albums he's previously released in the past on short run lathes with DIY artwork. More news to come (as of the 7th of May 2025!)
After a few brain scrambling minutes, despectral maid hits a stride that never lets up as the album careens from one dizzying delight to the next, like carnival rides running way too fast and way too close to one another. It brings to mind a sparking, glitching take on Ghost Box greats like The Focus Group, Belbury Poly, or Plone, albeit one rewired for a generation raised on file-sharing and video game emulators. -Miles Bowe, Bandcamp's Acid Test (January 2024)
The artist's music has the sound of an experiment that has run amok, each a proud statement of his skill and desire to brew massive, catastrophic floor stompers, some of which achieve a spectacular intensity, burning like a flaring ball of molten gas close to its inevitable explosion. -Louis Pelingen, Listencorp
The other half of bagel fanclub is Caybee Calabash, across the pond somewhere in the UK. His music tends towards the noiser end of the breakcore/glitch spectrum, but as amply shown on 'sequels that nobody asked for', can pull emotion from the chaos, with lovely harmonic progressions in a slow 3/4 time signature splattered with distorted breaks. World's End Girlfriend eat your heart out. -Peter Hollo, Utility Fog