Kid 606

Sweeet! Kid 606 is coming in june.

dear lord, we are so lucky.

Truely??

Thats wicked! I wouldn't have thought there'd be much interest in him round these parts, lets hope I'm wrong

hahahaa...hes playing the Fu bar..

bound to be some confused people there.

Where are you finding this out from?

Do post, anyone if you find any Nz websites/messageboards about idm music. I'm sure there must be one somewhere...

getting it from the herald entertainment guide of all places...

I can't see all that many herald readers getting down to Kid606s music.

In somewhat related Kid 606 / Tigerbeat6 news - Gold Chains has his album out now . Its not on Tigerbeat but his EPs were, and they were wicked. If the album is of the same standard it will be one to check. Well if you like the sound of a geeky dude rapping over warped electronic techno/hiphop beats that is...

who doesn't though?

Bump!
Got some more info on the gig (from the beautiful music email)
Here goes......

Yep, its true, that wacky American we love to love to love so much is coming to Dorkland.

Sunday 8 June
Fu Bar
With special guests
Phelps & Munro
Parallel Universe DJs
Pure FX (an insane vocal exhibition of beatbox-cum-tui-cum-vocal-automotive workshop)

The world is taking notice of the young electro-brat-punk from Venezuela (well, way way back when), who now hails from Cali USA:

Mike Pattons raved about Kid606 enough to release his Down With The Scene on his Ipecac label.

XLR8R: Talk to him and youll hear descriptions like tweaked-out-acid-techno-kinda-house-stuff and a noisy-gabber-electro-thing. In fact, journalists are often equally at a loss when attempting to describe his sound, with hyphenated descriptions being the norm.

About Down With the Scene, The Face comments: The poster boy of avant-hard digital glitchmanship, San Diego Powerbook iconoclast Kid606 slaughters hip-hop, rewires techno and scrambles the rule book with typically breathtaking conviction. Its true: he is the Mac daddy.

Vice Magazine: In a world thats way too full of laptop techheads glitching away to rooms full of straight white guys, Jesus has arrived to lead us out of the darkness. We thought it was just Kid606. Then we put in the new album and realised it was holymotherfuckingKidmotherfucking606..The action packed mentallist brings you the fucking jams is an absolutely essential album not only because it sounds so cool, but because its bringing some punk aggressiveness, experimentation and sex into the land of laptops

San Francisco Weekly:With the presence of such luminaries as Matmos, the Synth club and the Tigerbeat6 label, the Bay Area has become the fountainhead of all that is laptop punk (the madcap collision of electronic beats, chaotic noise, computer bleeps, churning samples, derisive absurdity, and virulent live performances.) Amongst all this glory, Kid6060 sits at the top of the heap. Between remixes for the likes of Depeche Mode, Foetus, and Peeches, a reworking of NWAs Straight Outta Compton, and three challenging but delightful albums of his own, Kid606 can do no wrong.

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Hmm,.,.. Sunday gig, one for the true mentallists, hopefully I will be able to go.

I got that Gold Chains album now, brilliant stuff maybe only 1 or 2 tracks that I am not liking.. heavy bass, squelchy noises, hiphop pisstake lyrics, and a wicked track with full on "orchestra stabs" all the way through. One for the open minded music fan to check.

please don't call it idm

yeah, I wouldn't think that either, when u consider how little interest there is in the local hardcore electronic/noise/gabba/breakcore scene,,,,

nearest thing to a bbs for idm/exp electronic in NZ is http://www.aklass.com, the new forums just gone live
theres a few other gigs of this sort comin up too, be warned...

if everyone represents it should start gettin better here!

good god, just came back from kid606 in melbourne, fuck...

playing three laptops and a sampler and completely mashing shit up left right and centre. be prepared for hardcore and lashings of missy elliot.

and its just been announced that prefuse 73 is coming in august. woo-ha!

And I cant go

Well barring being a nut and getting no sleep before work..

Good news about the prefuse though, you mean he is coming to melbourne or here? Hopefully someone will get him over here

Someone please tell us how it went! I was so keen to catch him play as well

Right in the middle of exams, so couldn't go

it was damn great!
support djs outdid my expectations greatly, as did kid606.
he played mostly fucked up techno breaks and pop noises, 3 laptops and a midi/fx controller, nice fella too. he had to run off ta catch a plane tho, which is a shame.
I'll post some short video snippits at www.aklass.com under events/misc in a few days time.

if ya like that sorta stuff, be sure ta head along ta galatos (basement) on friday 20th for a night of hardcore action!!!!!!!!!

Fucked up enjoyment to be had for sure. Its hard not to nod your head when you are getting bashed with sections of nutty 180bpm 4 on the floor (read: gabba)! The act before him, the incredible beat box man was also mindblowing.

pure fx? he wasn;t bad, its a shame his whole routine was stolen though, Rahzel from The Roots does the whole thing way better....

short vidz will finally be online tomorrow at aklass.com

Ah well i did not know this, however, i would probably also be suitably impressed if someone could copy a Buddy Rich drum solo as successfully. I certainly dont have the ability to perform such oral acrobatics!

well, in that particular ilk anyhow! Im a specialist in a whole other style of cunning linguistics

he still had skills anyhoo, but originality woulda bin nice!!

someday you'll find a lucky lady ta proove those skills on.....

another one? choice!

my online psychic skillz are in full effect!!!