Tigerbeat6

Tigerbeat6
Founded2000 (2000)
FounderMiguel Trost De Pedro
DistributorRevolver USA
GenreElectronic, experimental, IDM, glitch/glitch hop, hip hop
Country of originU.S.
LocationSan Francisco, California; Berlin

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. 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. 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." The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop."

Tigerbeat6 has four sublabels: Shockout, Tigerbass, Violent Turd, and Nibbana.

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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. ↑ "Kid 606 · Biography". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "TIGERBEAT6". Boomkat. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  5. ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc.. Pitchfork Media, September 2001.
  6. ↑ Tigerbeat6, Inc. The A.V. Club, April 19, 2002.
  7. ↑ "Catalogue". www.tigerbeat6.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  8. ↑ postrockcafe (10 January 2013). "Chris Weeks ~ A Haunting Sun / A Deconstructed Sun". a closer listen. Retrieved 12 December 2025.

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