Kid606

{{Short description|American electronic musician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{BLP refimprove|date=April 2007}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Kid606 | image = File:Kid606 cropped, 2011.jpg | caption = Performing in 2011 | birth_name = Miguel Trost De Pedro | alias = The Action Packed Mentallist | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|7|27|mf=y}} | death_date = | origin = Caracas, Venezuela | instrument = | genre = {{hlist|Electronic|glitch|IDM|ambient techno|techno|breakcore|experimental|noise}} | occupation = {{hlist|DJ|producer}} | years_active = 1998–2015 | label = {{hlist|Tigerbeat6|Ipecac|Mille Plateaux|Wichita Recordings}} | current_member_of = | past_member_of = | website = }}

'''Miguel Trost De Pedro''' (born July 27, 1979), better known by his stage name '''Kid606''', is an electronic musician who was raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, hardcore techno and breakcore scenes.

==Biography== Kid606's music is similar to the work of his friend and colleague Lesser, as well as hardcore and IDM acts such as Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Mr. Oizo, and Matmos. He is primarily inspired not by his electronic contemporaries, but by his love of the industrial music, death metal, and industrial metal of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly bands like Godflesh and Napalm Death.<ref name="ITM">{{cite web|last1=Downtown|first1=Chris|title=Kid606: Still killing them with sound|url=http://inthemix.junkee.com/kid606-still-killing-them-with-sound/3826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122073344/http://inthemix.junkee.com/kid606-still-killing-them-with-sound/3826|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 22, 2016|website=inthemix.junkee.com|publisher=In The Mix|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref> His music is known for its high tempo breakbeats and liberal use of noise and sampling, as well as its punk aesthetic, uninhibited genre-mixing, and irreverent sense of humor. However, he is equally adept at creating more serious tracks that often reside in the realm of ambient and glitch ("Parenthood" from ''Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You'' and the entirety of ''P.S. I Love You'' being good examples).

Notable releases by Kid606 include ''Don't Sweat the Technics'' (VC140: 1998), ''Down with the Scene'' (IPC-7:2000), ''P.S. I Love You'' (MP93: 2000), and ''Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You'' (IPC-46: 2003). He collaborated or participated in the groups Flossin, Spacewurm, Ariel and Disc.<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|last1=Bush|first1=John|title=Kid606 Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kid606-mn0000085847/biography|website=allmusic.com|publisher=Allmusic Guide|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref> In 2005, he put together a band with a drummer and guitarist called Kid606 and Friends.

==Discography==

===Studio albums=== * ''Don't Sweat the Technics'' (Vinyl Communications, 1998) * ''Down with the Scene'' (555 Recordings, 2000) * ''GQ on the EQ++'' (Tigerbeat6, 2000) * ''PS I Love You'' (Mille Plateaux, 2000) * ''PS You Love Me'' (Mille Plateaux, 2001) * ''The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams'' (Violent Turd, 2002) * ''Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You'' (Ipecac Recordings, 2003) * ''Who Still Kill Sound?'' (Tigerbeat6, 2004) * ''Resilience'' (Tigerbeat6, 2005) * ''Pretty Girls Make Raves'' (Tigerbeat6, 2006) * ''Shout at the Döner'' (Tigerbeat6, 2009) * ''Songs About Fucking Steve Albini'' (Important Records, March 2010) * ''Lost in the Game'' (Tigerbeat6, October 2012) * ''Happiness'' (Tigerbeat6, 2013) * ''Recollected Ambient Works Vol. 1: Bored of Excitement'' (Tigerbeat6, 2015) * ''Recollected Ambient Works Vol. 2: Escape to Los Angeles'' (Tigerbeat6, 2015)

===EPs=== * ''Dubplatestyle'' EP remixes (Vinyl Communications, 1999) * ''GQ on the EQ'' EP (555 Recordings, 2000) * ''The Soccergirl'' EP (Carpark, 2000) * ''PS I Dub Ya'' EP (Force Lab, 2001) * ''Why I Love Life'' EP (Tigerbeat6, 2002) * ''The Illness'' (Tigerbeat6, 2003) * ''Die Soundboy Die'' (Tigerbeat6, 2008) * ''Dance With The Chorizo'' EP (Tigerbeat6, 2009) * ''Happier'' EP (2014)

===Splits=== * ''Split Compact Disc'' (with Lesser; 1998) * ''Unamerican Activity EP'' (with Omni Bot; 1998) * ''Boy On Boy'' (with Pisstank; 1999) * ''DISC - Kid606 Cares'' (with Matmos and Jay Lesser; Vinyl Communications, 1999) * ''Kid606 and Friends, Vol. 1 '' (Tigerbeat6, 2001)

===Remixes=== * Peaches – "Fuck the Pain Away (Kid606 Going Back To Bali Remix)"

===Collaboration=== * ''In Love With The Underground'' A Kid 606 mix of The Rapture song.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *{{Cite web |last=Pytlik |first=Mark |date=June 2004 |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/kid-606-cex-tigerbeat6-label |title=Kid 606, Cex & The Tigerbeat6 Label |website=Sound on Sound |access-date=December 26, 2025}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/19991111055909/http://www.lsr1.com/vc/artist/kid.html Archived Kid606 biography on Vinyl Communications] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070824162212/http://www.pleix.net/sometimes.html Video Soundtrack for Pleix (2003)]

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://myspace.com/kid606 Kid606] on Myspace *{{AllMusic|id=mn0000085847|title=Kid606}} *{{Discogs artist|552|Kid606}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kid606}} Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:American intelligent dance musicians Category:Musicians from Caracas Category:Mille Plateaux (record label) artists Category:Wichita Recordings artists Category:Venezuelan electronic musicians Category:Breakcore musicians Category:American hardcore techno musicians