Kid606, whose real name is Miguel Trost De Pedro, has been making electronic music since 1998. The work of his that I’m most familiar with is his really intense IDM, which draws from his devout love of industrial, noise, and death metal. You won’t be getting any harshness this time around, though. To paint a picture of the type of music Kid606 is making these days, he recently covered Brian Eno’s Discreet Music in its entirety. Lately, he’s been creating introspective, drony, ambient songs, rather than the dance-crazy MDMA-powered hardcore beats of his past, and they sound beautiful.
He’s got a new album out calledRecollected Ambient Works Vol. 1: Bored of Excitement. Above is a music video for one of the album’s standout tracks, “B Minor,” which pairs Kid606’s music with geometrical animation created by Jeanette Bonds, a talented young artist who recently graduated CalArts.
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Buy Kid606’s new album here.
