Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone.
- Pythagoras

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley

Topic:
KID 606
Intelligent Dance Music

Called IDM by those hipster kind of kids that play music remixes consisting of bleeps, bloops and machine hum, recorded and mastered to the hard drive on a laptop and downloaded for playback as an MP3 on their iPODs. There is trance-style, dance floor, electronic music --with driving bass lines, rocking drum machines, and euphoric melodies-- and then there is Kid 606. This is the sound of one man layering stuttered percussive elements and just being downright noisy with his indie, punkish, gabber-fast, not-quite-fitting-snuggly-into-any-one-genre-or-style, unexpected bit of contrast to the other kind of IDM bands, like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada. Kid 606's highly articulated and mysteriously caustic way of interpreting melody uses amazing sounds to express his anger or "whateva" when he's hooked up to the exotic Native Instruments audio software setup.

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