Tigerbeat6

Tigerbeat6
Founded 2000 (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
Official website www.tigerbeat6.com

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] 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 has four sublabels: Nibbana, Shockout, Tigerbass, and Violent Turd.

Artists

References

  1. ↑ Peter Shapiro (October 2001). "Kid606 Beats and the brat". The Wire.
  2. ↑ Kid 606, Cex & the Tigerbeat label. Sound On Sound, June 2004.
  3. ↑ Andrew Ryce (August 2013). "Kid606 finds Happiness". Resident Advisor.
  4. ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc.. Pitchfork Media, September 2001.
  5. ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc. The A.V. Club, April 19, 2002.

Further reading

  • "Death 2 Retro: Numbers, Kid606, and the Rise of Tigerbeat 6". XLR8R. No. 70. September 2003. ISSN 1526-4246. OCLC 42250168.
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