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If you airlifted a stack of techno equipment into South Central LA, spent a year training disenfranchised shortys and then initiated a full-on race war riot, you’d have a Kid606 track. Formerly a gabba specialist and package-mailer with the folks over at Vinyl Communications, the Kid’s now freaking everyone out by branching out on his own with his new Tigerbeat6 imprint and a slew of singles on a variety of obscure labels. Despite his impending fame, Kid606 isn’t afraid of taking chunks out of sacred cows, whether it’s viciously remixing "Straight Outta Compton" or titling a track on his new album "Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass." He has declared an all-out class war on everyone who doesn’t want to fuck his music. VICE cornered him in a sex shop to figure out why he’s such a booty-loving bad ass psycho.

VICE: What do you have against poor Luke Vibert (Wagon Christ, Plug)?

Kid606: Everyone except Kathleen Hanna has to die.

Do you get laid more with all that hate?

Sure. Especially by the castoffs from bands I’m touring with.

What kind of girls do you have sex with?

Everyone from the girl with nipple piercings and track marks to the real clean cut rebellious types who just need a release from their data entry job. Mostly extremist raver chicks, though.

You are a pussy pioneer and a musical pioneer. You put out seven-inch records and three-inch CDs. Are eight tracks and piano rolls next? What other forgotten formats are you gonna revive?

Those little plastic toy guitars with internal speakers and keys on the fretboard instead of strings that you press down and it plays beats or riffs and vocal samples. I love those things. I wanna release one of those with just the individual parts of a song of mine and you can just sit there and play it any way you want. It will appeal to those above-mentioned gabber groupies.

I even heard you using a cat in that song "Catstep."

Those are actually fake meows, just an ex-girlfriend meowing into a sampler. It’s actually really hard to get cats to meow on call. If you squeeze them they just look at you funny, like "What are you doing?"

What are you doing to push the race envelope? How many races are you?

I’m totally white. Half-Spanish, half-German. I only claim I’m Latin American when filling out scholarship forms, so I couldn’t even get away with the race card, claiming to be something other than white.

You should embrace that Latin thing like all the homo house DJs.

I’m from Argentina but I never go back because it sucks. It’s just a third world country. I can’t stand it. There’s no technology, nothing. For example, my dad makes movies, and down there he was commissioned not too long ago to make the country’s first CD-ROM. Their first CD-ROM!

You should be a light-skinned Latino black German and freak everyone out by bringing hip hop into IDM.

Yeah, the Intelligent Dance Music scene has no soul, no blackness at all. You have to learn to not take yourself seriously. Not trying to be a total wigger, but still not be scared of that shit. I give props to the Cash Money stuff. I like my booty bass fucking raw. Being an American I can totally adopt these cultures. I’m not gonna say I’m black or that I’m a "nigga." I would never say that. But I’m not scared to like that shit neither, yo.

JON CARAMANICA
Kid606’s seriously fucked up Down With The Scene is available now on Ipecac. If you’re soft, there’s also the considerably mellower "Soccergirl" EP on Carpark. Be on the lookout as well for crazy releases like Kid606 and Friends Vol. 1 on Tigerbeat6.

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