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Tigerbeat6

Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and (mostly) electronic record label run by Kid606. 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. 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."

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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).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.34 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

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  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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