Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and (mostly) electronic record label run by Kid606 (Miguel De Pedro). The label is run as a DIY operation and releases a variety of electronic music styles, including noisecore, intelligent dance music, bedroom pop, folktronica, and electronica-driven hip hop. The name reflects De Pedro's obsession with cats, which also comes to light in the catalogue numbers, all of which start with MEOW. It is also a loose reference to the top-selling teen magazine Tiger Beat. The label's first release was in 2000; it has over two hundred releases in total. A 2001 compilation of the label's output was described as "stripping intelligent dance music of its intelligence[,] often resorting to outright silliness, and sometimes parody." The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop." Tigerbeat6 has four sublabels: Nibbana, Shockout, Tigerbass, and Violent Turd. Artists Black Dice Kevin Blechdom The Bug Cex DAT Politics DJ /rupture Drop the Lime Electric Company Genders Kid606 Goodiepal Knifehandchop J Lesser Max Tundra Nudge Numbers Sickboy Stars as Eyes The Soft Pink Truth Pimmon Quintron White Williams References Further reading External links Official site Tigerbeat6 Discography @ Discogs.com Record labels established in 2000 American independent record labels Electronic music record labels