Tidy Kid

Tidy Kid is a producer, audio experimentalist and recording studio owner based in Brisbane, Australia. He creates his music using 100% homemade samples, opting to do everything manually, without midi, or virtual synths. He uses a simple editing program, and likes to use real instruments and real samples through microphones. He feels that adhering to certain limitations and conditions whilst creating music helps him "to achieve my own world, a space to dream in."

Tidy Kid’s persona is wild and larger than life, a bearded fellow with a thick mop of messy hair. His handle’s origin is made up of the two elements that make up the character. The Tidy representing the organized thought process that he has before starting to work on a project, creating rules, restrictions, choosing which tools to use, and the Kid which “stands for the kid like creativity, which the slightly less conditioned self gets to enjoy more often. The kid is content to play with just a few sounds, using his imagination to fill in the rest of the picture”, and this is exactly what he does.

His unique style of electro-acoustic music has developed over the past five years, from its early roots of truly experimental, electronic, IDM pieces, that featured on his first four releases (‘People sit in cars’, ‘My frozen flower pot’, ‘Performance Fragments’ and ‘One week with my Casio’), to the more structured but still mind bending electronica housed on the last two EPs; ‘Toxic Feelings’ and ‘Feeling Toxic’. Tidy feels the last two EPs managed to “demonstrate a time where I let go of conditioning rules and kind of got lost in the world of too many ideas. The ideas aren't focused, but I still really like what came out.”

So far he has released 6 Free EP's on Net-labels based across the Globe. He chose this method to distribute his music over the years because he “Loves the fact that I can share the ideas with other creative minds, as well as possible fans, quite easily via the net label platform.”

‘Feeling Toxic’ was his last EP release and the final offering in a free concept E.P series. It was released by US based label Go Zombie Records (http://gozombie.c8.com) last year. Of the husband and wife duo who run the label he says, “I really liked their site, and their easy going communication felt homely, I've also come to really enjoy the music the artists who run the label release themselves”.

The Toxic Feelings EP is home to a collection of 7 other-worldly songs created between 2008 & 2010. Most tracks are instrumental, blips, glitches and crunchy electronic sounds cushioned in acoustic guitar strums and programmed beats.

Following his final EP release Tidy went on to create a beautiful, whimsical track called ‘Smell’. This release was dropped as a 7” vinyl and featured a savage B-side remix by Warp Records artist Bibio.

The two producers met a few years ago on Myspace. They both admired each others music and so decided to remix a track from each others back catalog. ‘Smell’ was released independently as a digital download, as well as on Vinyl with some gorgeous art work by the American illustrator David Sankey - http://www.davidsankey.net , an artist who has also done work for Sounds Familyre Records.

Chosen Oldies (compilation 2006-10) by tidy kid

Aside from producing and working with artists at ‘Alchemix’, his recording studio in Brisbane, Tidy also runs an art space (located below the studio), but somehow always still manages to find time to explore his own personal creative ideas and projects, “The Production company is in full swing, and the sound and noise events we hold at the venue are a great resource for new ideas and sounds. I love supporting that side of a town’s culture, instead of talking negative about how little culture a town might have. I think my German background makes me a very diary and journal organised person!”

In the near future Tidy Kid will be working on a second album of more studio inspired tracks, whilst producing and engineering a variety of local Brisbane artists. He will also be working on finding a home for his a full length debut release, ‘Dependio’, we hope this happens sooner than later.

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