Tigerbeat6
| Tigerbeat6 | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Miguel Trost De Pedro |
| Distributor | Revolver USA |
| Genre | Electronic, experimental, IDM, glitch/glitch hop, hip hop |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | San Francisco, California; Berlin |
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.[citation needed] The label's first release was in 2000; it has over two hundred releases in total.[3][4] 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."[5] The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop."[6]
Tigerbeat6 has four sublabels: Shockout, Tigerbass, Violent Turd,[7] and Nibbana.[8]
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.
- ↑ "Kid 606 · Biography". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ↑ "TIGERBEAT6". Boomkat. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc.. Pitchfork Media, September 2001.
- ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc. The A.V. Club, April 19, 2002.
- ↑ "Catalogue". www.tigerbeat6.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ↑ postrockcafe (10 January 2013). "Chris Weeks ~ A Haunting Sun / A Deconstructed Sun". a closer listen. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
