#kid606

[hazy2k]

tried imitating the art style for that one kid606 music video

[radiophd]

various artists -- clicks_+_cuts [album, 2000]

[araneiformm]

Fucking nuts and important to me AT LEAST.

[gummifeather]

[everynameistakenwhysstuff]

made wallpapers from kid606 albums

these are the exact size for my phone so you may have to do some bullshit to make it look right

[devoid-of-love]

kid606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap Vatstep DSP Remix By Hrvatski Down With The Scene

kitty breakcore

[swankyangles]

(starts at 0:56)

i’m a sucker for text-to-speech parts in songs, idc that everyone does it now

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Cute Never Dies • Blood Stevia Sex Magik • Cloud sculpting • Happiness is a warm kitten • Smooth sailing • Party Gambas • Taco Time • Coronado Bay Breezin' • Tarsier Treehouse • If I am only allowed one song on the album with cut up female vocals then this song is it • Man : The failed child (Thank You and Good Night.)

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ Youtube

[bluetapes]

The Blue Tapes House Band - vol. 3​.​5: Blue Metal

This digital-only experiment was initially formulated as a weird attempt to realise Richey Edwards' pre-disappearance proposal that the fourth Manic Street Preachers album should be "Screamadelica meets Pantera".

The idea was that I would demo a selection of Dimebag-esque metal riffs (the Pantera component) and then farm them out to more talented collaborators to remix into pseudo-dance songs (the Screamadelica element), with added lyrics (the Richey element).

It of course didn't end up sounding anything like that, which is also, in a way, the whole point. The prompt just being a way to defeat the blank page.

(The Manics also didn't manage it, mounting their big comeback on a somewhat more palatable 'Oasis with proper lyrics' style on Everything Must Go.)

My favourite moment is the glitchy, Kid606-meets-The Stooges collaboration with Matt Collins.

The sessions also produced an epic 1-hour track helmed by Matt, also featuring Lisa from Map 71 and Eugene S Robinson from Oxbow.

Matt, Lisa and I recently reunited for the vol. 5 of the Blue Tapes House Band project, which you can now get for free as part of our T-shirt deal!

Check out all of these things at the link above.

[confield]

PSA

If you're into any of the following bands/artists: Autechre, Ryoji Ikeda, Pan Sonic, alva noto, Bernard Parmegiani, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, TODAY IS THE DAY, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow, Oval, Yasunao Tone, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Hecker, Unwound, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, John Cage, Muslimgauze, Jan Jelinek, Anthony Braxton, Farmers Manual, Daphne Oram, Mira Calix, Einstürzende Neubauten, Eric Dolphy, Karleinz Stockhausen, Maryanne Amacher, Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Laurel Halo, Fennesz, General Magic, Gescom, Ramleh, Prurient, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Pauline Oliveros, William Basinski, Luc Ferrari, Matthew Shipp, City of Caterpillar, Kouhei Matsunaga, Sensational, Mike Ink, Coil, Nobukazu Takemura, Halim El-Dabh, Martin Tetrault, Tod Dockstader, Matana Roberts, Chicago Underground Quartet, Microstoria, Vladislav Delay, Sonny Sharrock, Beatrice Dillon, SND, Mark Fell, Mika Vainio, Robin Rimbaud, Darkthrone, Christoph de Babalon, Toshimaru Nakamura, Steve Roden, Lithops, Nisennenmondai, Tackhead, Aaron Dilloway, Henry Flynt, Foehn, Yamantaka Eye, Portraits of Past, Pg99, Maxwell Sterling, Slint, Big Black, Russell Haswell, Sébastien Roux, Loraine James, Surgeon, Terrence Dixon, Underground Resistance, Dopplereffekt, Plastikman, Wolfgang Voigt, Robert Hood, Cecil Taylor, Matmos, Kangding Ray, Hijokaidan, Babyfather, Team Doyobi, Paul Lansky, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Soul Oddity, Kid606, Hugh Le Caine, Actress, Klein, Sven-Åke Johansson, Porter Ricks, Luciano Berio, The Third Eye Foundation, Grischa Lichtenberger, Replikants, Genocide Organ, Joji Yuasa, The Jesus Lizard, African Head Charge, Drive Like Jehu, Peter Brotzmann, Sonic Youth, Jawbox, Chino Amobi, Luke Vibert, James Ferraro, Florian Hecker, Tim Hecker, Eyehategod, Gorgoroth, Basic Channel, Maurizio, Steve Reich, Mouse on Mars, Burial, The Future Sound of London, Dean Blunt, Susumu Yokota, Skream, Benga, Farben, Polvo, Keiji Haino, The Black Dog, LFO, The Bug, SOPHIE, Global Communication, B12, Jlin, Stereolab, Pole, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Juan Atkins, Wormrot, Oli XL, Napalm Death, Orchid, Bitch Magnet, Codeine, Microstoria, Moss Icon, Frank Bretschneider, Joey Beltram, Jeromes Dream, A Guy Called Gerald or DJ Manny

I am looking for a sugar baby to spoil with a $5000 weekly allowance. DM me if you are interested.

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Clicks & Cuts 2 2001 Glitch / Experimental / Minimal Techno / IDM

I really should've known what I was getting myself into when I started reading the liner notes of this triple-disc from German experimental label Mille Plateaux. The first installment in their critically acclaimed Clicks & Cuts series from 2000 had made some noise among the stuffy indie critics who kept tabs on these sorts of scenes, but this follow-up volume, as demonstrated by its *tripling* in size as compared to the first one, was just way too overly self-indulgent. And the eyeroll-inducing and alienatingly academic way in which they wrote essays that took up *multiple* CD booklet pages, long-windedly pontificating about things as simple as the sounds of 'clicks' and 'cuts' and the truly deep meaning behind them, really just tells you all you need to know about an album like this one: this shit is so fucking insufferable 😒.

And I'm not trying to cast aspersions upon the genre of glitch as a whole here, because some of the stuff from that IDM successor genre that rhythmically employs the resultant sounds of digital-technological failure like CD skips has yielded some very cool music. But this album in particular really seems to be far more concerned with being experimentally weird than anything else. It sort of feels like that well-worn, musically equivalent trope of going to one of those expensive Michelin restaurants whose creative courses can be consumed in just two small bites; both extremely pretentious and off-putting to a vast majority of folks who happen to find the whole premise to be patently absurd on its face!

And there is a broad range of music that encompassed Mille Plateaux's expanding vision for their Clicks & Cuts philosophy in 2001 on this album—from exercises in combinations of discordant and arrhythmic noises to abstract techno minimalism—but almost all of it's coated in this high-falutin sheen of deliberate, beard-scratching smugness. It's bad to give any genre of music the 'intelligent' label, because when taken to its logical conclusion, it ends up breeding 35 out of this album's 36 songs. And still, it's fine for this stuff to exist in its own quiet, secluded, and tiny, self-sustaining corners of the music world where most people will never know about it, but when it somehow manages to leak out onto the pages of AllMusic and Pitchfork, that's when I really feel like I gotta start beating it back with my broomstick, because these publications are helping to make charitable mountains out of what should remain mole hills. And on top of all of that, and perhaps most importantly, the music's also excruciatingly, soullessly boring! 😴

The only song on here that I think's well worth a listen comes courtesy of the underground electronic king of California abstract himself, Kid606, who supplies "While You Were Sleeping," a song that I unfortunately can't find available to stream anywhere at the moment—so you'll have to just take my word for it—does a pretty neat job of building itself up from scratch, with a beginning that's filled with absolute silence, to a full-on viscously glitchy, needly, clicky, and cutty dance beat that even ends up incorporating a little vocal sample from the likes of Guru, of legendary rap duo GangStarr fame.

Lyrics.

Other than that, though, I really wouldn't recommend a single song from this exceedingly lengthy album to anyone. On one end of the electronic music spectrum, there's unlistenably stupid and goofy commercial shit like The Chainsmokers, and on the other opposite end, there's the type of music that takes up most of this Mille Plateaux album here. And I think I dislike both of them pretty equally 🚫.

Highlights:

CD2:

KID606 - "While You Were Sleeping"

[radiophd]

kid606 -- nobody wants to be a star anymore (toss it)

[scibot9000]

top discovered albums this year. as in, top albums from not-2023 but that I found in 2023. i dont have spotify so i gotta do this manually.

rankings approximate. links and thoughts under the cut

hizmi - Soak (2021)

sometimes it's the technicalities that blow my mind. this is…… unmodified X68000 music????

Yeah listening to this has expanded my mind on what's possible with old FM chips. None of this sounds like the artist found any restriction with any aspect of the system.

"Rivulet" blows my mind every time. It's just an ilkae song. Like cmon.

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SDEM - ZNS (2020)

After AE_LIVE 2022, I went on a little bender, looking for anything else ae-esque.

I pretty much immediately struck gold. I had been digging through SDEM stuff anyway but man this is another level.

"dysp 0m" in particular is one of the tracks of all time. I keep coming back to it. it's HEAVY on headphones.

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Ssaladd - Ssaladd (2020)

This is a funny selection to land on a TOP8 because it's so understated. It even kinda feels distant.

But damnit that's why it stuck with me.

The use of wow and flutter is crazy good here!

It feels like carefully applied vibrato, an application of the expression MIDI CC. But completely unlike any other vibrato I've heard.

It feels like a pioneering mix of techniques. And I can't stop thinking about it.

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Cryptovolans - Passenger (2022)

Is it possible to have a wall of sound in MIDI?

No, not Black MIDI. Something prog.

I keep coming back to "Board Room" in particular because it's so... weird? Slightly beyond just SC, but not by much. Heavyweight album.

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Kid606 - GQ on the EQ++ (2000)

The textures on this absolutely blew me away.

"My Kitten Went To London" sounds insanely fresh. I can't believe it's pushing 23 years old!

That and "Dandy" really stuck wth me. The latter sounds a bit more era-appropriate somehow (maybe because of oval?), but still vibes really good.

This was actually me revisiting the album. I initially listened to it about a decade ago and didn't like it. Crazy to think I turned away from such gold back then.

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nagz - Good (2020)

nagz has been a longtime favorite and inspiration of mine. He's been making music from the future for years and years. Blowing my mind since 2006 or so.

One of his earlier releases, hringur, stuck with me for years. It had an atmosphere that I had never heard before or since.

…until now.

It's not actually a sequel, but it's got a flavor that I just. Don't know where else you can find.

If I were to highlight a single track: "I Like You But Not Too Much" hits astoundingly hard. It's what I imagine Earthbound music might be like if it were made today.

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DJ Technorch & 九十九音夢 – Strong Anthropic Principle (2016)

An absolutely mind melting early (found in January) favorite. Hard, hardcore, and psychedelic. And a bit silly.

"猫の気持ち 〜Cat's Mind〜 (Masayoshi Iimori Remix)" and "解熱鎮痛一撃必殺 〜Critical Arts〜" in particular stuck with me as great experiences.

I really really like the preview video, too. (nsfw warning?) (flashing lights warning?). It truly captures the vibe.

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AE_LIVE / elseq 6-10 / onesix

I had already listened to some of these, but around march, I found fanmade CUE sheets, and that brought a whole new level of love for this release.

And then I found fan edits with another set of fan titles. Two names for all of my favorite bits? Sure!

"ceramic / clipcon" i love that percussion! the ringmod in "(drunk) / probat emp2" is some of my fav ae work ever. having splits made me fall in love with the density of "sentinel / sinistrail casual"

and then I discovered the onesix sets and fan-cuts, giving a more ambient dive which I'll only mention briefly here. But man, "reflected / seven of twelve" is one I revisit OFTEN.

[gummifeather]

[mcshizzle-the-fire-boy]

im sorry for sending that strange chicken nugget ask but now i have a real question - have you ever heard “the illness” by kid606 its so silly

no but I'll listen to it and get back to you! thanks and dw