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Looping and multi-tracking his voice onstage to create his own live backing tracks, Kid Beyond layers his transcendent singing voice over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation. The result is a riveting brew of pop-electronica that has drawn comparisons to Gorillaz, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Thievery Corporation and M.I.A. His live show has been called "Amazing? truly impressive" (Keyboard Magazine); "Deep, powerful?" (SF Weekly); "Fiercely charismatic? truly mesmerizing" (East Bay Express); "Kid Beyond?s mouth is something you must hear." (Remix Magazine). Kid Beyond?s diverse vocal talents converge on his debut EP, Amplivate. Produced by alt-hip-hop wizard Alias (Anticon Records), San Francisco?s The Rondo Brothers (Dan the Automator) and LA?s Gabriel Mann, Amplivate casts Kid Beyond?s soulful singing voice and conscious lyrics in a sea of crunchy break-beats, dubby bass-lines, wobbly turntables, swirling strings, bleepy bloops, distorted guitars? all produced from his mouth. Kid Beyond?s career has exploded in the past year. An endorsement video for Ableton Live (the leading music-looping computer software) ? of Kid Beyond demonstrating his live-looping techniques in his kitchen ? became one of the Web?s most viral videos of 2005. Director JJ Abrams (Alias/Lost) requested a Kid Beyond version of the Mission Impossible theme for the MI:3 DVD. VH1 brought him onto their reality show "Supergroup" to fill in for Jason Bonham as a human drum kit, appearing alongside Ted Nugent, Skid Row?s Sebastian Bach and Anthrax?s Scott Ian. A profile on Kid Beyond landed in heavy rotation on Al Gore?s Current TV cable channel. Electronica pioneer BT flew him to LA to collaborate on an all-vocal dance track. Hip-hop / spoken-word legend Sage Francis put one of Amplivate?s tracks (the Buddhist-blues anthem "I Shall Be Free") on an upcoming compilation CD. Having shared the stage with Keane, Lyrics Born, The Coup, Michael Franti & Spearhead, String Cheese Incident, Amon Tobin, KRS-One, Buckethead, The Wailers and Particle, Kid Beyond has attracted an intensely loyal following of techno-Burners, hip-hop heads, jam-band fans, MySpace kids and bloggers worldwide. This "underground legend" is not going to stay underground for long.