Browse by Label: TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS

Artist:	KID 606
Title:	Kid 606 and Friends, Vol. 1
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 001CD

Repressed. "The first release on Kid 606's Tigerbeat 6 label, Kid 606 and Friends, Vol. 1 is the first in a two part series of full length CDs featuring remixes and collaborations with a variety of some of the greatest underground electronic luminaries. Features: Matmos, Hrvatski, Twisted Science, Christoph De Babalon, Jake Mandell, Solvent, Max Tundra, Chessie, Electric Company, Lexanculpt, The Sinking Body, Marumari, Underwood, Vomit Lunch, Miss Kick Cex along with NY modrockers The Rapture, and super prolific Japanese noise hero Aube."

Artist:	KID 606
Title:	GQ On The EQ++
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 008CD

New jewel case edition. "A handsomely packaged collection of rare, out of print and unreleased Kid 606 material, remastered to take advantage of all that crystal clear CD quality sound. All seamlessly pieced together in chronological order to create an album that lies somewhere between the alarmingly well received Soccergirl EP and the more downbeat and somber moments of his Ipecac full length Down With The Scene. The perfect stocking stuffer for any electronic music fan without a turntable or too impatient to wait for the next Kid 606 full length (hehe, now that's a scary thought!). Includes the full GQ on the EQ 10" along with two unreleased tracks from the GQ on the EQ sessions, the Kid606 side of the the Kid 606/Lesser European tour 7", the Kid 606/Remote Viewer Japanese tour picture disc and much more..."

Artist:	LESSER
Title:	LSR_MP3CDR_1990_2000
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CDROM/MP3
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 009CD

"We could fill pages retelling the story of Lesser, one of the most engaging, genre-defying, jawdropping artists to emerge from San Diego's vaunted alt.rock scene in the 1990s, and the touring third member of pop's premiere experimentalists MATMOS. But why waste your time, when all that history (and much more) is yours for the taking on this unique mp3cdrom, presenting twelve hours of music recorded over the first ten years of Lesser, for the one low price of a regular cd!? Literally, everything is here, from the overwrought 'I Hate Me' debut (which originally included tabs of homemade acid), through the collaborations and tributes to fellow bottomfeeders of the San Diego scene (such as A Minor Forest, Titwrench, Powerdresser, Optiganally Yours, and Rob Crow of Heavy Vegetable/Thingy), through the proto drum n' bass of the both critically acclaimed and confused 'Excommunicate the Cult of the Live Band' and 'Welcome to the American Experience,' to the years with KID606, plus a bunch of cassette-only, compilation, remix, and unreleased tracks that would otherwise have faded into obscurity or moldered beneath the socks in Lesser's closet." [this release requires the use of an MP3 enabled CD player or computer]

Artist:	ELECTRIC COMPANY
Title:	62-56
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 019CD

"The uncompromising follow up to his recent tour de force full length Slow Food on Mu-ziq's Planet-Mu label, this EP by ex Medicine frontman Brad Laner is one of the most inspired and worthy releases Tigerbeat6 has ever released, we are not to humble to say that Brad has created something amazing and fresh with 62-56, a merging of such interesting and unexpected styles and performances that you can't help but listen to it over and over again. Includes a 15 minute improvised musical collaboration between Electric Company, Kid 606, Lesser and Blectum From Blechdom recorded live at the lab of happy dreams after a concert in Los Angeles. Not to be missed by fans of Mouse On Mars, This Heat, Dat Politics, Mike Ink, Kid606, Vladislav Delay or Can."

Artist:	LESSER
Title:	Mensa Dance Squad
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 020CD

"Super crazy and wildly funky new EP from San Francisco's favorite drum and bass/broken hiphop glitchmeister Lesser, the musician responsible for such confrontational and controversial releases like Welcome to the American Experience and Excommunicate the Cult of the Live band. Much more beaty and flowing than his recent Matador records full length debut Gearhound this EP truly covers the gamut of the best of what Lesser is capable of, a overacheiving concept record against the current trend of supposedly 'intelligent' dance music, Mensa Dance Squad shakes yr ass back into detention with bpms faster than yr average intelligent dance musician's SAT scores and some of the most hyper and inventively programmed 'unin-telligent' dance music youll ever hear along with a 9 minute slamming dancehall inspired ragga jungle technogabber remix by Kid606 to finish you off in style."

Artist:	STARS AS EYES
Title:	Freedom Rock
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 026CD

"Debut full length by longtime Tigerbeat6 cohorts from Rhode Island, Stars As Eyes is Steve Ferrari and Craig Four Two. Steve Ferrari is best known for his coproduction work with Kid 606 on tracks on Down With The Scene and GQ on the EQ. Three years in the making and drawing from a very wide range of influences from Krautrock, hiphop, IDM, punk, emo, electro and beyond. Beautiful melodies combined with thoughtful song structures and almost lyrical rhythms, with so much more involved than today's current crop of electronica underacheivers. Stars as Eyes utilise a calculated mix of old keyboards, organs, guitars, old effects pedals, live drums and even saxophone along with today's most useful computer and modular dsp synthesis techniques and hard disk recording without ever overcomplicating things or losing touch with the rock and roll spirit they insist on flaunting in a time when most electronic musicians are too busy worrying about how much ram they have rather than how much soul their music does."

Artist:	ELECTRIC COMPANY
Title:	Greatest Hits
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 032CD

"From the mind of Brad Laner (Medicine, Savage Republic, Personal Electronics) we bring you Electric Company's Greatest Hits. No, not a collection of singles people all want on one CD but a remix album of the highest quality: 18 tracks of inspired remixes and collaborations of the chosen musician's favorite Electric Company songs. Trying to reach a different musical peak through the much maligned 'remix,' this album succeeds on constantly challenging the notion of a remix as mere namedropping or opportunistic genrecrossing, instead delivering truly inspired artistic transformation through sonically predirected reconstructions. Much like the collaboration between writer and director in films, where the writer provides the plot and sonic characters, the remixers provide their technique and style, using Electric Company's provided ingredients to create something they couldn't create otherwise." Remixes by: Kid606, Geoff White, Leafcutter John, Mu-ziq, Blectum From Blechdom, Jasper, Lexaunculpt, Pimmon, Pthalocyanine, Tom Recchion, Electric Company, Kim Cascone, Frank Bretschneider.

Artist:	KID 606
Title:	Why I Love Life
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 035CD

"A collection of moody, predominantly treated guitar and synth-heavy work recorded between 1997 and the present, this seven-song EP is a snapshot of the Kid sampling his own musical history, picking pieces out of 100+ unreleased and unfinished songs. Given his prolific output over the past three years, fans and newcomers alike will appreciate this highly personal collection of thoughtful instrumentals centered around family, best friends, ex-girlfriends and avoidance of stagnation. Still completely fresh sounding, even for intimately familiar with Kid606's oeuvre."

Artist:	STARS AS EYES
Title:	Important Youth Movement
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 037EP

"Three years in the making and drawing from a very wide range of influences from krautrock, hiphop, IDM, punk, emo, electro and beyond. Beautiful melodies combined with thoughtful song structures and almost lyrical rhythms, with so much more involved than todays current crop of electronica underachievers. Stars as Eyes utilise a calculated mix of old keyboards, organs, guitars, old effects pedals, live drums and even saxophone along with todays most useful computer and modular DSP synthesis techniques and hard disk recording without ever overcomplicating things or losing touch with the rock and roll spirit they insist on flaunting in a time when most electronic musicians are to busy worrying about how much ram they have rather than how much soul there music does."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Wrong Application
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 039CD

"Assembled by A. Nosnitsky for Ostian Mele Productions, this release finally sees the light of day with Tigerbeat6. Features tracks from regular Tigerbeat6 artists Pimmon, Electric Company, Lesser, Phthalocyanine, Kid606, with tracks from No Human Intervention, Farmers Manual, Blitter, Underwood, Suetsu, Blitter, and Viratone Ballad, conjoined by anonymous bits of feedback and astrally projected noise. Quick jumps from golden trebles to space dust create rhythms where no bass exists to link them. The result is music that's architectural rather than melodic, with listeners left to graph shifts in pitch and leaps in rhythm by moving their arms and legs. Compulsively danceable (or at least head-noddable), always surprising even though its many artists maintain a consistent tone, this compilation unlocks the soundtrack in your mind, as the mothership passes and leaves you bobbing in its wake. This fusion of noise with pristine, ear-popping minimalism represents an expansion and redefinition of the Tigerbeat6 fam."

Artist:	KID6�6 VS. DALEK
Title:	Ruin It
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 040CD

"A collaboration between Kid606 and celebrated New Jersey hiphop trio Dalek, known for their constant touring, highly gifted lyricism, stream-of-consciousness rhyming, forward-thinking, bomb-squad rhythms, and Big Black-inspired clusters of noise. Alternately moving between languid arrangements reminiscent of vintage Amiri Baraka fronting free jazz ensembles to synth-driven glitch hop and Chain-Reaction-meets-digital-hardcore, Kid6�6's contributions evoke a sense of darkness and confrontation (in place of his customary in-your-face rhythmic assaults or clouds of blissful ambience)."

Artist:	MERZBOW/KOUHEI MATSUNAGA
Title:
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 041CD

"Akita has been a regular guest on Kouhei Matsunaga's projects, since his well-regarded releases on Mille-Plateaux in the late 90s. Noted for 'a bashful take on noise, as opposed to the usual swagger prevalent in the genre,' Matsunaga's cut-ups and textural soundscapes have been hailed for occupying a point between experimental electronic noise and minimalism. Not only are Matsunaga's tracks a compelling introduction to a unique artist, but they shed light on the chain of influence Merzbow exerts on the electronic world, as Akita supplies us with three characteristically abrasive tracks that almost resolve into songs, pulling listeners into their effort to find deeper sonic orders. Eggheads will love Akita's remix of Olivier Messiaen's 'Mode de Valeurs et D'Intensite Pour Piano.' The beats are more block-rockin' than usual, but the bass is transformed into a mutable force, discharging bolts of sound processed beyond recognizability like an electronic cloud. Sounds Akita roughens up, Matsunaga leaves clean, and the result is a CD that popularizes the esoteric ranges of noise, even as it unlocks new possibilities for their construction. This title has an instant appeal to the avant-garde and surprisingly, some of its detractors."

Artist:	BLECHDOM, KEVIN
Title:	I Love Presets
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 044CD

"How refreshing it is to find Kevin Blechdom (real name Kristin Erickson) fresh off a successful solo European tour baring her soul (and much else) by adding her voice to the mix of polytonal electronic torch songs and loveballads. Is 'Interspecies Love' or 'Talkin' Tech' more satisfying foreplay to the sassy, saltysweet ballads 'Mr. Miguel' and 'Private Dancer'? And who the hell is Shelley? Which is more restrictive: her use of presets, or your preconceived notions about what a 21st century techno woman can achieve? With a nod to her indie rock roots (as a member of Shimmy Disc band Adult Rodeo) and an interest in bringing live guitar, banjo, piano and vocals into the obtuse performance world of electronica, Kevin Blechdom reconfigures your senses with a potent blend of sounds and styles, attitude and angst, passion and possession, closely connected to the sounds of Peaches, Le Tigre, Chicks On Speed, Le Trim, Dat Politics, Fischerspooner and of course Blectum From Blechdom. By the time she wraps her husky voice around Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer,' she's slapped you in the face and pinched your ass at the same time with songs that make machines speak in the most human language of love."

Artist:	DJ RUPTURE
Title:	Minesweeper Suite
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 045CD

"On Minesweeper Suite, DJ Rupture tears some of hiphop's most familiar battle breaks into arguments that reconstruct 'the missing links between dead prez and Middle Eastern dub selector Muslimgauze,' as Vibe described his mission. Mahmoud Fadi, Aphasic, Disc, Cul De Sac, Rotator, Cex, Gregory Whitehead, Kid606, J-Boogie, Dat Politics, Borbetomagusm, DJ Scud, So Takahashi and Donna Summer all find a home in DJ /rupture's realm, where squalls of noise and dub concr�te are the sand in his mixer, scouring away the listener's previous associations with music they thought they knew, forcing them to confront cultural differences in a manner that neither essentializes nor orientalizes but honors them within a deeply rooted, humanistic vision. Minesweeper Suite extends DJ Rupture's mission of dissolving the boundaries between artistic genres and scenes and the result is post-colonial, post-apocalyptic work that the world needs now more than ever."

Artist:	MICHEL, NATHAN
Title:	ABC DEF
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 046CD

"Continuing the tradition of classically trained musicians forsaking their Ph.D.s for the more immediate inspiration of free electronic music and laptronica, Tigerbeat6 brings you the pure and vibrantly enjoyable songs of Nathan Michel, a mix of twangy guitars and simple little bleep-beats, lush organ chords, squeaky toys, catchy melodies and sweet nothings -- all performed, assembled, disassembled and reassembled into zig-zag structures, beats and hooks that give new meaning to the words 'lo-fi.' Trapped in the hallowed and isolated halls of East Coast academe (hey, Yale and Princeton, what's up?) Michel looks for inspiration in the work Captain Beefheart, DAT Politics, the Akan people of Ghana, Scratch Pet Land, Steely Dan, Igor Stravinsky, Thelonius Monk, Conlon Nancarrow, Kid6�6, Nobukazu Takemura, Josquin des Prez, Christian Fennesz, J.S. Bach, Kraftwerk, John Coltrane, Oval and many others."

Artist:	LESSER/VARIOUS
Title:	Tigerbeat6 C64 Massive SIDplay Mix
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 051CD

"The Sound Interface Device 6581 chip (aka SID) was developed for the Commodore 64 in 1981 by Robert Yannes and its three tone oscillators (plus limited sampling) were responsible for some of the most memorable video game music of the '8�s. But what most of us don't know is that lurking just beneath the world of video game music, a network of underground producers began composing dance tracks for the SID chip. Committed to pushing the SID 6581 to its limits, these producers made extreme and extremely catchy electro, drum'n'bass, and some twisted kind of gabber, all forever committed to 8-bits. The tracks on this compilation range from classy electro-pop to hilarious cover versions of '8�s and '9�s favorites to full-out knuckle-dragging, head-banging Lode Runner-core. This nearly hour-long SID Party Massive, continuously mixed by DJ Brotha P Touch (aka longtime sonic terrorist Lesser), delivers a home-computed punches to the groin and the funny bone, while serving as both a history of the do-it-yourself-ness of electronic music and the future of dancing your ass off."

Artist:	KID606/STARS AS EYES
Title:	Money Vol. 9
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 052EP

"Provider of techno dub ambience and electronica subtle and serene, Kid606 juxtaposes satanic mid-'9�s thrash metal and Futurist, dirty south funksploitation of the most mainstream ilk. Ghetto miscreants Stars as Eyes are two youths rooted permanently in traumatic adolescence. This duo invokes the overly melodic spirit of early IDM innovators Black Dog and Autechre in their tumultuous grit-hop dissertation about the hard-knocks life of a hustler."

Artist:	PIMMON
Title:	SnapsCracklesPops
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 053CD

"Snaps*Crackles*Pops is a refreshing take on the idea of pop music by highly acclaimed Australian electronic/ambient musician Pimmon. The elements and original vision of what people have come to love in Pimmon's music -- as well as obvious rhythms, melodies and song structures -- are at the core of an otherwise experimental framework. Overall the tracks reflect an emotional rollercoaster ride from exhilaration to frustration, melancholy and anger. It's very much a personal journey, using an idiosyncratic definition of the term 'pop music' -- joyously melodic and catchy, but also chaotic. Similar to Eno's ambient work, Fennesz's Endless Summer or Mike Ink's Gas albums, Snaps*Crackles*Pops unites the freedom of early prog rock with the likes of Flying Saucer Attack, AMM, Amon D��l, Christian Marclay and Sonic Boom's E.A.R. Pimmon manipulates old vinyl records, tapes found at thrift shops, and his young children letting loose on a Korg MS20 synthesizer. He mixes up things with a variety of unconventional sound sources, and gets so lost in file manipulation and mixing that when the final product is complete, there is little recollection as to how it all came together. Talk about a trademark of quality."

Artist:	WOBBLY
Title:	Wild Why
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 055CD

"Drawing inspiration from John Oswald's classic acts of sonic appropriation, Wobbly responds to an increasingly corporate radio landscape by personalizing the popular. Sidestepping the info-glut, Wobbly gets jiggy with a jigsaw, hurls house anthems down the stairs, and commits acts of cut-and-paste ventriloquism that are creepily accurate and hilarious. As stand-alone blasts or as an extended composition, Wild Why has the structural rigor of New Music from the academy and the sue-me bravado of label-mate Kid 6�6. Executed with a strong sense of humor and without a laptop in sight, Wild Why is a brilliantly ambitious guerilla strike on popular music. Sounding like every hip hop battle record ever made playing angrily at once, Wild Why pummels the unwary listener with a Niagara Falls of sonic information. Several thousand hours of raw audio were gathered from corporate hip hop radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, digested and broken down to micro-samples of their constituent tics, gasps, and stabs. Wobbly has created the plunderphonic bastard child of Grandmaster Flash and Charles Ives, the result of three years of painstaking downtime with the sampler. The relentless cut-up frenzy on Wild Why has been edited down to the nanosecond with speed-freak precision."

Artist:	GOLD CHAINS
Title:	Straight From Your Radio
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 056CD

"Gold Chains is a crooner, a modern day Ian Curtis or Scott Walker. His music is heavily orchestrated, triumphant, and anthemic. The bass is heavy. The outcome inevitable: straight from your radio through to your cerebral cortex and down to your ass. On this second release (his first for Tigerbeat6, following his self-titled debut on Orthlorng Musork), Gold Chains leaves behind his not-so-straight-up brand of hip-hop and dives deeper into the murky waters of, huh, 'electronic dance music'. Each track on this six song ep crosses so many boundaries it's not even worth putting words like techno, ghetto tech, ragga, glam rock or punk into sentences. Gold Chains still gives a history lesson or a tale of sex, drugs and rock and roll with each song, but this is not story time. Straight From Your Radio is for the clubs and anyone left standing when it's over deserves a purple heart."

Artist:	CEX
Title:	Bad Acne
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 057EP

"The first single off the recent Tall, Dark and Handcuffed full-length album from tangled-brain electronicat Rjyan Kidwell. The title track -- a bouncy hip hop number perfectly comfortable with its beautiful blemishes, content to be a radio party jam, a radical manifesto, a venomous battle rap, and an emo ritual all at once -- backed with the cut 'K-12 Days of Hell,' a song breaking down the frightening and awkward experience of grade school rocked by Cex and hometown pal MC Height and 'Ghost Rider'. Includes instrumental mixes of each."

Artist:	CEX
Title:	Tall, Dark and Handcuffed
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 060CD

"Cex's first two albums, Role Model and Oops, I Did It Again! are regarded as unprecedented classics among followers of ambitious left-field electronic music. Because of his penchant for complex beats and catchy melodies, Kidwell has garnered critical acclaim from mainstream and underground press alike for bringing daring pop sensibilities and sensitivity to a genre mostly frequently strapped for personality or accessibility. His quick wit and bona-fide mic skills have delighted music fans of many persuasions: hip-hop heads, indie rockers, electronic music geeks, and even the occasional frat boy. After refining everything about his sound in the forge of the ultimate live show, the much-anticipated album version of Cex's unique blend of hip-hop, experimental electronic music, and pure pop is finally ready for the world to absorb and admire."

Artist:	STARS AS EYES
Title:	Enemy of Fun
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 061CD

"Eleven tracks of pure musical reinvention and rebirth by these Providence, Rhode Island, ex-pats -- orchestral in scope but punk at heart; forsaking ambience for drums; turning down the synths and pads and turning up the guitars and samples. Freshly inspired by relocation to Austin, Texas, Stars As Eyes composed these songs on piano and guitar (without completely ignoring samples), from minimal to psychedelic to IDM to krautrock to electro to Providence rock. It's a stellar change of pace from their debut CD Freedom Rock -- heavier, thicker, more intense, yet cognizant of their emo-IDM roots. Songs like 'The French Method' and 'Suspension Days' contain a subtle, sustained beauty unequaled by their previous output, with melodies that would make M�m, To Rococo Rot or Boards of Canada proud. 'Important Youth Movement' is a slice of inspired electro-kraut with off-kilter, deadly guitar stabs, pounding drums and searing synth lines that build to a fever pitch and land in a soothing bed of soft breaks, piano, and a lullaby of strings worthy of Aphex Twin. Like a third of Flying Saucer Attack and half of Autechre stuck in a rehab center with a computer."

Artist:	BLACK DICE
Title:	Lost Valley
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 063CD

"Black Dice formed during the spring of 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island, as a loud, chaotic mix of early-'80s-inspired thrash and harsh noise experimentation. By the fall of 2001, the unorthodox instrumentation continued to evolve, and an emphasis on signal processing provided a broader range of sounds to work with. While volume and physical presence of sound remained crucial, melody and repetition became key elements that songs were composed upon. The shift in focus introduced a new gentle and tuneful quality to the intense, brash music. Currently, the music retains elements of noise and proto-industrial experimentation, while organically suggesting minimal, ambient electronic, and psychedelic ideas, as well as those of tropicalia and dub. Black Dice is now the organized presentation of improvised sound, assembled into deliberate structures based on visual concepts."

Artist:	MAIN
Title:	Transiency
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 064CD

"Along with Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, Robert Hampson and Loop redefined guitar rock in the '80s -- fusing an aggressive, hypnotic, angular guitar edge with a stripped-down, post-punk ethic, but not without healthy references to psych and krautrock. After an influential and groundbreaking string of releases on Beggars Banquet, Hampson's post-Loop Main is back, composing timeless compositions for Fat Cat, Touch, K-raa-k, and Staalplaat. Main's ear-catching ambient/electroacoustic music contains strong references to Stockhausen and Xenakis, but fully enjoys the benefits of modern technology, digital processing and reconstruction. If there is anything left to harvest from the carcass of The Almighty Guitar, Hampson is there to pick the bones clean. As documents of the origins of the guitar-as-centerpiece school (which includes, for example, the ambient and electronic music of Christian Fennesz and Oren Ambarchi), Main records are always studied and well-constructed; Hampson's personal and unparalleled ability allows him to combine concrete and acoustic sounds with manipulated-beyond-belief guitarwork."

Artist:	COM.A
Title:	Shot Of Love
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 065CD

"Along with his brother Joseph Nothing and artists like Bisk and Nobekuza Takemura, Com.a (aka Age Yoshida (pronounced 'ah-geh'), is one of the first and most inventive Japanese electronica/IDM musicians. Hailed by many as the Japanese equivalent to groundbreaking UK artists like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, Com.a is sounding the war-cry as the leader of a laptop gang all over Japan. Born in England but raised in Hong Kong and New Jersey and now residing in Tokyo, Japan, Age started ROM=PARI when he was only 18 with Joseph Nothing (Planet-Mu); the duo released two critically acclaimed records of highly inventive and abstract drill and bass on the Belgium label SubRosa. After two full tours with AsianDubFoundation and AudioActive, ROM=PARI broke up and Age gave birth to his solo project under the alias Com.a (pronounced 'coma,' named after a much-loved Japanese candy)."

Artist:	CRACK
Title:	W.A.R. (We Are Rock) Silent Fantasy
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 066CD

Morbid dance music. Inspired as much by Titicut Follies as Black Sabbath, this is the death of disco (or metal -- same thing, anyway). Crack presents six tracks of haunted carnivals, socially retarded cabaret and the loneliness of being lost at sea. Drum machines and synths, sure, but Crack is a band; innocence up front and something a little more impish in the back. King Riff, Obscuratron, Le Kim and L'Erin all create a cacophonous din of electro-smash complemented by L'Erin and Le Kim's schoolyard taunt vocals. Their sold-out self-released debut 12" split with Ann Arbor's Wolf Eyes gave only a slight indication of the misery to come. Silent Fantasy is their first release for Tigerbeat6 and fits in well with the work of the other inmates. Next time someone decides to take over the teen center or burn down the local theater, Crack will be off to the side taking notes. Death Disco? Electro-chaos?"

Artist:	VA
Title:	Paws Across America
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 067CD

"To commemorate its first label tour of the United States and Canada, Tigerbeat6 presents a full-length compilation of all new and exclusive tracks by the artists on the tour. That's two or three tracks tracks each from Numbers, Cex, and Stars As Eyes, all of whom who are doing the entire tour, and one track each from other Tigerbeat6 artists playing at least once along the way. Expect thrills and chills from Cex's folky, Neptunes-type song and a track that can only be described as "industrial IDM hiphop." Also included are the sweet and tuneful electronica of Nudge, Electric Company, and Nathan Michel, and the absolutely twisted, mind-numbing, beat-infused electronics of Knifehandchop, Uprock and Zeigenbock Kopf.

Artist:	ELECTRIC COMPANY
Title:	It's Hard To Be A Baby
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 068CD

"Electric Company is the solo project of Brad Laner, frontman for seminal band Medicine (recently reformed with vocalist Shannon Lee -- Bruce Lee's daughter -- after a long hiatus). As Electric Company, Laner has been making extremely leftfield electronic music since his 1995 Def American debut A Part Cylic Omen. Guitars and other live instrumentation complement abstract and twisted electronics (he's right at home on Tigerbeat6). Recorded just before, during and after making the upcoming Medicine album for Wall of Sound, It's Hard To Be A Baby represents a radical redirection of energy from experimental, rhythmic sound-sculpting toward melody and mood. These new songs do not squander the advantages that modern studio technology offers -- hands-on guitar-playing, voices, and synthesizers -- and pay homage to early Brian Eno and Faust, current artists like Mouse On Mars and Christian Fennesz, and Aphex Twin's more melodic work. Endlessly interweaving sensual, melodic textures and clusters with plenty of the 'noise as beauty' aesthetic, Laner places these elements alongside casually funky beats, making this a musically rewarding and dynamic Electric Company album."

Artist:	NUMBERS
Title:	Death
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 069CD

"This collection of all-star remixes of Numbers' debut album, Life, is diverse, dynamic, downright rocking and enjoyable in a way remix albums seldom are. The remixers try to outdo each other either by improving on the originals or reinventing them by adding not just new rhythms and synthesizers but in many cases new vocals and completely new musical sections -- all faithfully inspired by the Numbers aesthetic. Highlights include: the full-throttle dance-rockabilly remix of 'Driving Song', by recent Depeche Mode remixer Electronicat (Disko B, Angelika Kohlermann); the New Order-esque take on 'Prison Life' by GD Luxxe (aka Gerhard Potuznik of Mego, Cheap Records, Ersatz Audio, Interdimensional Transmissions); Kid6�6's rock-steady reworking of 'We Like Having These Things' into a hands-in-the-air dance punk anthem; Original Hamster's fittingly all-over-the-sound-canvas drill-and-bass remix of 'Human Replace'; and Kit Clayton's original and inspired take on the Numbers' theme song 'Information'."

Artist:	THE BUG VS. ROOTSMAN FEAT. DADDY FREDDY/DJ RUPTURE
Title:	Split
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 072CD

"The Bug & DJ Rupture have declared turf war. In a volatile face-off between two kinetically charged contemporary electronics producers, this combination mash up, dancehall destruction, hip hop malfunktion and structural deconstruction assures a suitably intense future for soundclash battles. A thinly disguised audio abattoir masquerading as a six-track EP, this explosive exchange steals the tools of the dub and dancehall trade for maximum disorientation. Weapons are set to stun, and artificial genre divides are militantly blitzed."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Open Up and Say...
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 075CD

"Tigerbeat6 brings you a full-length super-budget-priced label compilation featuring all vocal tracks. A stunning musical showcase of vocals, instruments and electronics fused in drastically varying ways, this compilation serves as a roadmap to what Tigerbeat6 has been up to recently, and where the label's going in the near future -- featuring 80 minutes of music, comprised of 24 previously released, new and upcoming songs by all the best and essential Tigerbeat6 divas and troublemakers." Artists: The Rip Off Artist, The Bug feat. Daddy Freddy, Dynasty, DJ /Rupture, Com.a, Dwayne Sodahberk, Kid606, Numbers vs. Caro, Max Tundra, Stars as Eyes, Numbers, Electric Company, Crack, Knifehandchop, Cex, Total Shutdown, Zeigenbock Kopf, Terminal 11 feat. b. bond, Original Hamster, Nathan Michel, Nudge.

Artist:	BUG, THE
Title:	Pressure
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 076CD

"The Bug aka Kevin Martin of Techno Animal, Ice, God, Curse of the Golden Vampire. Pressure provides heavyweight evidence of the bassbin blowing, mechanoid mash-ups that have become The Bug's trademark sound. Having been indelibly marked by the skull-crushing impact of UK dub, and increasingly obsessed with ragga's bionic gyrations, The Bug crunches reggae's sub-genres into a physically brutal, psychologically deep, low-end feast for non-conformist dance-floor fiends. From the thug-step ragga of 'Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons,' to the electronic dub of 'Live & Learn,' via the dancehall punk of 'Killer,' Pressure ignites basement anthems and exhausts the echo chamber, as basstronic frequencies are mercilessly exploited. Ignoring the stagnant digi-dub scene, bypassing retro-fixated roots revivalists and avoiding ill-advised attempts at Xeroxing ragga's current trends, The Bug has formulated fearsomely original future shock for electro mainliners and yardcore fanatics alike. With maniacal MCs, blissful crooners and a metaphysical poet, the range of vocals exemplifies the free thinking range of this album. Intense." Licensed from Rephlex.

Artist:	ZEIGENBOCK KOPF
Title:	The Nocturnal Submissions
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 077CD

"Ultra-lo-fi, mysterious, and frighteningly addictive slut-punk duo Zeigenbock Kopf (German brothers Hans and Uli Bunschlaper with aid from Detlef) have left the flaccid and impotent dance scene of Berlin behind forever. Their beats pummel. Their bass is too loud and the highs are acrid. They came to San Francisco not to embrace the dance scene or the gay pride parades, but to destroy clubs and to hurt those who open themselves up to victimization by hurters. Nocturnal Submissions follows their debut album, I.D.M., a severely warped and very un-PC collection of ass-destroying, sexy, electro gabber beats, rockabilly-ish guitars, organs, and dance-till-you-drop-dead vocal commandments."

Artist:	RIP-OFF ARTIST, THE
Title:	In Through The Out Door
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 078CD

"Tuneful IDM that mixes the hi-fi processing of Richard Devine with the timeless humor and playfulness of Stock, Hausen and Walkman. On In Through The Out Door, he has created a playful world of found voices, peppy rhythms and smart-ass musical references. The music harkens back to his The Kids Are Alright album from 2000, with glitchy electro-fried beats and hummable pop aspects rarely found in modern electronica, which is what makes Tigerbeat6 a perfect home for it."

Artist:	KNIFEHANDCHOP
Title:	Rockstopper
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 079CD

"Knifehandchop is Billy Pollard, a 22-year-old culture-junkie musician from Toronto who has been producing devastating electronic dancefloor anthems for the last four years on the Irritant and Tigerbeat6 labels. Rockstopper showcases what Knifehandchop has done and explores totally new musical directions, compiling some of Pollard's most manic moments, and offering lots of deep, emotional tracks. The vocoded, electro anti-love songs contrast over-the-top hip hop and distorted hardcore tracks scattered throughout the album, as well as mental mind-blowing gabber, laidback hiphop, sentimental vocal electro, and dancehall riddims."

Artist:	NUDGE
Title:	Elaborate Devices For Filtering Crisis
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 082CD

"Nudge is the Northwest indietronica supergroup headed by Outward Music Company label head Brian Foote and featuring musicians who've played in Fontanelle, Jackie-o-Motherfucker, Emergency, Nice Nice, Jessamine, Strategy and Sunn. For the past five years Nudge has attracted an estranged ark full of talented musicians for marathon improvisations and edits that result in perfectly glitched future musics. Alongside core members Honey Owens and Paul Dickow, Foote battles the source-fragments' natural entropy by coercing them into a near-seamless collage. At its best, the fusion is both ear-pleasing and inebriating. Points of reference become irrelevant as layer upon layer of influence smudge into a unique flavor of rave-damaged art pop."

Artist:	MATMOS/PEOPLE LIKE US/WOBBLY
Title:	Wide Open Spaces
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 083CD

"The hour-long performance on this disc was captured live on October 5, 2002, when Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos circled their wagons in the lecture hall of the San Francisco Art Institute. Having mutually agreed upon a country-and-western theme, Vicki Bennett (PLU), Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), and Drew Daniel and M. C. Schmidt (Matmos) pored over their archives of honky tonk classics, chopping and dicing Nashville's finest almost beyond recognition, and collectively re-stitched the mangled shreds in crazed digital quilting bee. Several tense rehearsals and strong pots of tea later, the foursome shuffled on stage and delivered the goods: from panoramic twangfests to off-kilter waltzes to barn-burning stompers. Flickering and tranquil one moment, and wildly slapstick the next, Wide Open Spaces hits the sweet spot between song forms and improvisation, and showcases the qualities that all three collaborating artists share: absurdist humor, baroque sample manipulation, and stuttering rhythmic frameworks that lurch and sway."

Artist:	CRACK: WE ARE ROCK
Title:	Cosmic Mind Flight
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 085CD

"From the murky border between the urban jungle and the smoldering forests of Hades comes Crack: We Are Rock. Spawned as a cough syrup-fueled dream somewhere in the Midwest ca. 1995, founder King Riff brought his vision to San Francisco and performed under the Crack:WAR banner with a revolving cast of savants and sociopaths. Eventually teaming up with black metal poseur Obscuratron, the line-up solidified with the addition of L'Erin and Le Kim, sirens with a poetic vision who had fallen off the back of a caravan in a Satanic children's circus. Crack:WAR immersed themselves in their collective obsessions (spectre-infested woods, fiendish horsemen, and New Age warfare) and now unleash a full-length fever dream-journey into a psychedelic future where rainbow-coated simians control the machines and bloodied unicorns sip wine with shrouded reptiles."

Artist:	STARS AS EYES
Title:	Loud New Shit
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 086CD

"This is an EP, but a generous one, boasting four new originals recorded after their North American tour with Numbers and Cex, as well as carefully selected remixes by other artists, who chose their favorite songs from Enemy of Fun: Icelandic indietronica phenomenom M�m (Fat Cat), New York's Shy Child (El Guapo, ABCs and Touchdown), Los Angeles' Electric Company (Tigerbeat6, Medicine), Portland's Strategy (Kranky, Omco, Nudge), Midwest IDM hero Casino Versus Japan (Carpark, City Centre Offices, Wobblyhead). Highlights include a brilliant eight-minute epic reworking of 'Our Light' by ambient isolationist originator Main, and Enemy of Fun's most poignant track 'Suspension Days' newly reworked by Stars as Eyes themselves."

Artist:	DROP THE LIME
Title:	Killy 123
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 087EP

"As its playful title suggests, Killy 123 is a move away from the morbid and dark releases proliferating in today's IDM scene. Taking a goofier approach to melody, these upbeat tracks are mixed clean and loud for maximum dance-floor appeal. In 'The Days' and 'Amarcord Gold,' big band remixes and squirty sound riffs tangle within the context of floor-thumping anthems, inviting consideration of the relationship between old and new forms of dance music. 'Rad Girl Killy' and 'Cutty Throats' revolve around the empty spaces in sound, allowing the main rhythms to unravel over time, balanced by tickly, eerie melodies. Each side ends with melancholic, beatless tracks that express the energy and emotion put into the creation of the harder, dancier tracks on the EP."

Artist:	KID 606
Title:	The Illness
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 088CD

"This crazy newacidtechnohardcorebreakbeat action from hyperactive manboy Kid606's first single off the upcoming full length album Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You is a retro hardcore techno anthem for a period which still hasn't occurred yet: sweeping melodies and gnarling basslines combined with classic beats and all the sonic sci-fi twist and turns needed to keep you at the edge of your listening seat. 'Ecstasy Motherfucker' is a 9-minute, relentless 4/4 160-BPM epic with more energy in it than most albums -- thumping 909s mixed with Baltimore breaks and booty 808s with DSP rush breakdowns all climaxing in a bass-heavy speedcore gabber blowout."

Artist:	DYNASTY
Title:	Dynasty
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 089CD

"Supremely talented, immaculately attired, sporting hooks, looks, chops, and undeniable rockstar power, Dynasty are the complete package royale. This is their seven-song, multiple re-entry vehicular salvo from the heart and loin of the San Francisco dancewavepartypunk culture war. Fronted by the mercurial Jibz Cameron (Roofies) on vox and keyboards, hips set rocking by the bomb-ass bass of Diana Hayes (Mono Pause), and jet-propelled by the undeniable beatz of Indra Dunis (Numbers), Dynasty is the soundtrack to your fever-dream night-on-the-town with Alexis Carrington, Dorothy Parker, and Terri Nunn. Dynasty is not some tired, warmed-over electro retread. This is fresh, beat-oriented, melodic, everlasting gobstopper party music, awash in sex, deadpan humor, and all-consuming uniform lust."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Good Night
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 006CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Tigerbeat6 Inc. Limited Edition Advance
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 010EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Return Of The Fight Club
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MEOW 054EP

Artist:	SODAHBERK, DWAYNE
Title:	Don't Want to Know You
Label:	TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MEOW 058CD