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Kid606

Miguel Trost De Pedro (born July 27, 1979), better known by his stage name Kid606, is an electronic musician who was raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, hardcore techno and breakcore scenes.

Kid606's music is similar to the work of his friend and colleague Lesser, as well as acts such as Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Mr. Oizo, and Matmos. He is primarily inspired not by his electronic contemporaries, but by his love of the industrial music, death metal, and industrial metal of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly bands like Godflesh and Napalm Death. His music is known for its high tempo breakbeats and liberal use of noise and sampling, as well as its punk aesthetic, uninhibited genre-mixing, and irreverent sense of humor.

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Links To Peel[]

Peel played the debut Kid606 album “Don't Sweat The Technics” in 1998 and continued to give regular airtime to releases and remixes by the American electronic artist in the years that followed. There was just one session, recorded with Remote Viewer in 2000, with a scheduled second set on 23 October 2002 unexpectedly failing to materialize.[1]

The DJ also aired live festival recordings of Kid606, from both Sonar (2002) and All Tomorrow's Parties (2004). After Peel appeared with Kid606 at ATP, the pair also featured together on the lineup of the "Tryptych 04" event in Edinburgh, alongside Dr Alimantado, Earl Gateshead, DJ Rupture and Knifehandchop.[2]

Peel appeared to stop giving airtime to Kid606 records after ATP, where the musician had abruptly cut short the playing of Teenage Kicks at the climax of JP's own DJ spot. Introducing the Kid606 live set on his 08 April 2004 show, Peel recalled the incident:

"Now, friends, picture the scene. At All Tomorrow's Parties, clapped-out DJ seguing records to incurious audience, finishing his set with the Undertones. Up jumps Kid606, takes off Teenage Kicks and goes like this ..."

Perhaps pointedly, Peel followed the broadcast of the Kid606 ATF set with a full uninterrupted play of his all-time favourite record.

Elsewhere, Peel played many releases on the Tigerbeat6 label, which was run by Kid606. Other Tigerbeat6 artists who did Peel sessions include DJ Rupture, Knifehandchop, Max Tundra, and Numbers. In October 2003, Tigerbeat6 was selected as a Peel Label Of The Month for the BBC website.

A year after Peel’s death, Kid606 appeared live from Liverpool on the John Peel Day Radio One tribute special.[3]

Festive Fifty Entries[]

  • None

Sessions[]

KID_606_VS_REMOTE_VIEWER_John_Peel_3rd_May_2000

KID 606 VS REMOTE VIEWER John Peel 3rd May 2000

1. Recorded 2000-05-03. Broadcast: 20 June 2000: No known commercial release.

  • Ask Me For Gift Ideas / You Got It, I Don't Want It / Haslingden Loves The Kid / I Don't Want Your Assistance

Live[]

  • 18 June 2002: Recorded live at Sonar 2002 (broadcast on same show as Sonar set by fellow Tigerbeat6 artist Cex)
  1. Mix
  1. Set details unknown
  1. Set details unknown

Other Shows Played[]

1998
  • 15 September 1998: Drop Kick Tomgirl's Gonna Stick With It (LP - Don't Sweat The Technics) Vinyl Communication
  • 16 September 1998: I Want To Join A Gang (LP - Don't Sweat The Technics) Vinyl Communication
  • 22 September 1998: Ghettoblaster (LP - Don't Sweat The Technics) Vinyl Communications
2000
  • 22 February 2000: 808 Mate (LP - Split Series #10) Fat Cat
  • 15 March 2000: Flutter (12” - Split Series 10) FatCat
  • 25 May 2000 (Radio Eins): When I Want A Gun, Yeah
  • 30 May 2000: When I Want A Gun, Yeah (Split 7" with Remote Viewer - Split Picture Disc) 555
  • 01 June 2000: Relive Yr Unhappy Childhood (EP - European Tour Single) 555
  • 08 June 2000 (Vs Underwood:) Kid Goes To The Fashion Show (CD - Kid606 And Friends Vol 1) Meow
  • 13 September 2000 (& Richard Thomas): Psychedelic Rock (Compilation LP - Constant Friction: Collaborations 2) Lo
2001
2002
  • 03 January 2002: Cream (split 7” single with Timeblind – $ Vol. 3) Tigerbeat6
  • 19 February 2002: Cream (split 7” single with Timeblind – $ Vol. 3) Tigerbeat6
  • 21 March 2002 (Radio Eins): Cream (shared 12" with Timeblind - $ Vol. 3) Tigerbeat6
  • 21 August 2002: French Kiss (EP - Why I Love Life) Tigerbeat6
  • 04 September 2002: When I Want Something New (EP - Why I Love Life) Tigerbeat6
  • 05 September 2002 (Radio Mafia): When I Want Something New (Tigerbeat)
  • 10 September 2002: Frenchkiss (EP - Why I Love Life) Tigerbeat6
  • 12 September 2002 (vs. Dalek): 'Revenge Of The Circuit Burners (Remix- EP- Ruin It)' (Tigerbeat6)
  • 23 October 2002: The programme should have featured a session by Kid606, but "the music he was going to send us has not arrived and he's not been in touch. We've emailed and phoned - rien, as they say in France. And if we get the chance, I think it's fair to say we'll kick his ass."
2003
Remixes

See Also[]

Links[]

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