Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and (mostly) electronic record label run by Kid606 (Miguel De Pedro).[1] The label is run as a DIY operation and releases a variety of electronic music styles, including noisecore, intelligent dance music, bedroom pop, folktronica, and electronica-driven hip hop.[2] The name reflects De Pedro's obsession with cats, which also comes to light in the catalogue numbers, all of which start with MEOW. It is also a loose reference to the top-selling teen magazine Tiger Beat. The label's first release was in 2000; it has over two hundred releases in total.[3][failed verification] A 2001 compilation of the label's output was described as "stripping intelligent dance music of its intelligence[,] often resorting to outright silliness, and sometimes parody."[4] The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop."[5]
| Tigerbeat6 | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Miguel Trost De Pedro |
| Distributor(s) | Revolver USA |
| Genre | Electronic, experimental, IDM, glitch/glitch hop, hip hop |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | San Francisco, California; Berlin |
Tigerbeat6 has four sublabels: Nibbana, Shockout, Tigerbass, and Violent Turd.
Artists
edit- Black Dice
- Kevin Blechdom
- The Bug
- Cex
- DAT Politics
- DJ /rupture
- Drop the Lime
- Electric Company
- Genders
- Kid606
- Goodiepal
- Knifehandchop
- J Lesser
- Max Tundra
- Nudge
- Numbers
- Sickboy
- Stars as Eyes
- The Soft Pink Truth
- Pimmon
- Quintron
- White Williams
References
edit- ^ Peter Shapiro (October 2001). "Kid606 Beats and the brat". The Wire.
- ^ Kid 606, Cex & the Tigerbeat label. Sound On Sound, June 2004.
- ^ Andrew Ryce (August 2013). "Kid606 finds Happiness". Resident Advisor.
- ^ Tigerbeat6, Inc.. Pitchfork Media, September 2001.
- ^ Tigerbeat6, Inc. The A.V. Club, April 19, 2002.