Kid606
KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU
(violent sounds from violent fans, enemies, journalists, publicists, peers, and the kid) I'm getting tired of these "complex" artists. Complex is OK if the sounds have some musical quality. This guy has no talent -- unless the ability to string together bleeps and machinery hum is considered to be quality "music". You have to have a sense of humour to appreciate it, but I just love it. It's the sound of one man just being a right noisy bastard and making a bleedin' racket, in a creative way. This inaccessible stuff is what gives electronic music a bad name. Whatever happened to driving bass lines, rocking drum machines, and euphoric melodies? KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU The kid is an indiepunkgabberidmraverblastbasher of the highest caliber, which means not everything he releases (which is a lot of material over all) snuggly fits into one genre or one style. The guy's all over the place, often from release to release, so it would seem the best way to approach his output is first off with a very open mind. I've always though of Kid606 as a third rate Autechre. Guys like him are a dime-a-dozen in the IDM scene. If it wasn't for Aphex Twin, Autechre, Squarepusher, and Boards of Canada, IDM would be a dead scene. I "dig" all types of music. I mainly gravitate toward anything electronic, and that's why this got a review from me. It's a free country. I can call it like I see it! Kid606 sucks, no matter what you call his style of "music". I'm unclear on how Kid606 could be even remotely compared to artists like autechre, aphex twin, etc. idm would be dead without them? bullshit! idm was dying, and it took people like Kid606, blectum from blechdom, cex, lesser, matmos, etc. to revitalize it. bay area hardcore. KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU It just goes to show, that true talent is always surrounded by controversy. Kid606 and his labelmates have a Tourette's syndrome-like compulsion to deflate the pomposity of electronic music. From his early, post-gabba 12"s on San Diego's electro-punk label Vinyl Communications to the occasionally mindblowing, always vivacious HipHop and R&B cut-ups that he's been doing recently, Kid606 has flouted copyright laws with more glee than anyone since Negativeland and The Bomb Squad. KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU I'm making music in the same way that the original raga and hip hop was made and it's just total pilfering of ideas. You've just got to put your own mark on it. If his recent output is any indication, he'll be a major entry in the books someday, mainly because of the breadth of his work. AS YOU READ THIS, HE'S ALREADY ON TO THE NEXT 400 THINGS. Do not bowdlerize our subculture just so you can finally get your goofy looking nerd asses laid. I love Autechre, I love all that stuff, but I'm not trying to sound like them and I'm not trying to do anything in line with these IDM people. They're so easy to offend, and they're so into a certain thing, that anything I do will offend them. In the end, I want to offend people like that. KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU ...they named the "100 Most Dangerous Men On Earth". At number 93 - ahead of Bill Gates and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and just behind former Cheers star Ted Danson - was "the Sid Vicious of Techno", Kid606. I'm pretty tone deaf and that's the backbone of traditional musicianship. Don't think of it in terms of pitches. Think like, you can make any sound in the world: which ones do you like? KILL SOUND BEFORE SOUND KILLS YOU
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