After more than 15 years of mostly scrambling the minds of his listeners with his trademark glitchy electronic music and subverting the dominant pop paradigm with classics like The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams, Kid606 (a.k.a. Miguel De Pedro) has decided to refill his prescriptions, and the result is Recollected Ambient Works Vol.1: Bored of Excitement, which is set to be released May 19 via his label Tigerbeat6.
Instead of hyperactive beat-scrambling, Recollected Ambient Works Vol.1: Bored of Excitement, as the name suggests, will be a collection of straight-up piano-based ambient tracks. According to Kid606, the shift in direction follows a rough patch in Berlin replete with “a brief but laughable suicidal idealization (involving some heavy analog synthesizers and the Paul-Lincke-Ufer Canal directly beside my Kreuzberg apartment),” which saw him decide to move back to Los Angeles and focus on creating “a crazy Meditation-Yoga-New Age-Shamanic-Psychotherapy trip” as part of his recovery.
The results deliver just that in a seven-part meditation, with each track, if the titles are a reliable indication, focused on a different minor key. The results are unexpected. The results are also so beautiful you’ll want to hold the hand of the closest person and weep.
Recollected Ambient Works Vol.1: Bored of Excitement tracklist:
01. A minor
02. B minor
03. C minor
04. D minor
05. E minor
06. F minor
07. G minor
• Kid606: http://www.tigerbeat6.com