Record Label Samplers: Tigerbeat6 Inc.

This is something of a cheat. Because this CD is something a bit more than a label sampler — it’s mostly acts from the Tigerbeat6 label, but there’s also other random people.

And I’ve tried to only feature label samplers that work as albums — that are more than just a collection of random tracks, and I’m not sure this one does, really. It’s sometimes difficult to tell the whether you like a record label sampler because you just like the record label a lot, or whether they’ve managed to put together a satisfying album, but I think this is more the former than the latter.

They have tried to do some sequencing here — they’ve put most of the slower songs on the second CD and the more punchy tracks on the first CD, but it doesn’t really work well.

Tigerbeat6 was just such a moment — fun and funny, abrasive and melodic, insane and heartfelt. It was kinda everything, and I have bought absolutely everything they released. And then, after a handful of brief years, it was over, and like with many of these record labels that were a zeitgeist, most of the bands associated with the label kinda dissipated when the label went down the drain.

I guess you’d call most of these bands brokebeat bands? And there’s a few noise acts, and some that do glitch music, and more than a few that are just noisy, bratty rock bands… It was a fun few years, and I guess this sampler works as a nostalgic reminder, if nothing else.

 03:11 Gamers In Exile - I Am A Decent Man
 01:26 Fossil - Kick'SC
 03:57 Cex - Furcoat
 02:22 Aelters - Poc Size
 05:05 Jetone - Ginotopia
 04:25 Joseph Nothing - Exoticmanwalking(Edit)
 01:39 Knifehandchop - Sun Jammer Is My Favorite Pokeman Trainer
 03:52 D84 - Rock-Its-Hip
 04:11 Lesser - Mensa Dunce Squad (Leg Up Program)
 02:23 Blectum From Blechdom - Always Frank
 03:13 Sonic Dragolgo - Strange
 02:59 Disc - Where My Brap At?
 02:41 Goodiepal - Wooper
 02:46 Dwayne Sodahberk - I Understand You
 04:31 Medicine - One More Night
 01:48 Tugboat Fantastic! - I Want To Go To The Disco
 04:57 Lusine Icl - Shin
 03:34 Noriko Tujiko - White Film
 01:02 Pisstank - A Small Good Thing
 03:58 Twerk - Jujik_Olop
 02:49 Pimmon - King Coming Melodia
 04:06 Ted Sulkowicz - Kid_Newtown
 02:59 Wobbly - Made Happy

 07:08 Kid606 - You Just Don't Understand
 03:47 Com.A - Hallucination Acid Lobot
 03:29 Gold Chains featuring Nina Oppenheim - Burn Babylon
 02:37 Dwayne Sodahberk - Nu_Maschine
 04:56 Languis - Snowfall
 04:24 Electric Company - Lit Up And Protruding
 01:41 Kevin Blechdom - Klardiscopic Remedy #1
 01:27 Daedelus - Exp.
 02:51 DAT Politics - #21
 01:22 Max Tundra - The Bill
 06:31 Geoff White - Fog G
 04:44 Stars As Eyes - More Difficult
 02:37 Steward - The Man With The Tiny Hands
 02:25 Jean Bach - P-Mechccjoymx
 04:42 Mikael Stavostrand - Or
 03:56 Nut 'n' Honey - Eskimokisses
 03:23 Swim With The Dolphins - Yr Guitar
 02:10 Kpt.Michi.Gan - Yr Lips-Yr Eyes
 00:37 About This Product - 18 Metal Birds Pt. 1
 03:04 Leafcutter John - Untitled 4 [Edit]
 06:08 Stilluppsteypa - Nice Things To File Away