Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and (mostly) electronic record label run by Kid606 (Miguel De Pedro). 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.Kid 606, Cex & the Tigerbeat label. Sound On Sound, June 2004. The label's first release was in 2000; it has over two hundred releases in total. 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."Tigerbeat6, Inc.. Pitchfork Media, September 2001. The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop."Tigerbeat6, Inc. The A.V. Club, April 19, 2002.
Tigerbeat6 has four sublabels: Shockout, Tigerbass, Violent Turd, and Nibbana.
Artists 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
Further reading
External links Tigerbeat6 Discography @ Discogs.com