Unless you're a DJ or a student of electronic music-making, turntablism can be something of an esoteric art form -- everyone knows it's the foundation of hip-hop, but its techniques aren't as widely understood or appreciated as those of a traditional instrumentalist. The turntablist revival of the '90s produced some major talents (the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the Beat Junkies, the X-Ecutioners), but the nuances of their skills were often lost on casual observers, and only sometimes trans   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The long-awaited debut album from Montreal turntable sensation and comic book sci-fi-scribbler KID KOALA. Fourteen tracks of thrift-store-mined hip hop futuristics loaded with jazz-infected cuts, funk-bred breaks, and schizophrenic scratches. Includes a thirty-six page comic book designed & drawn by the Kid himself. Blowing up.

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It's the Koala you know and love, a turntablised soundtrack of more antics of the cranky and mysterious characters from Kid Koala's comic book land of Nufonia. This album is far less dense and weird than the debut, but still a strange stew. A cross between his first mix tape and his debut record. More short attention span theatre covering ground that ranges from jazz standards as played by drunken horn players from New Orleans, funeral marches involving crickets, ska tracks that Byron Lee could have never i   [ read more ]

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It's the Koala you know and love, a turntablised soundtrack of more antics of the cranky and mysterious characters from Kid Koala's comic book land of Nufonia. This album is far less dense and weird than the debut, but still a strange stew. A cross between his first mix tape and his debut record. More short attention span theatre covering ground that ranges from jazz standards as played by drunken horn players from New Orleans, funeral marches involving crickets, ska tracks that Byron Lee could have never i   [ read more ]

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Eric San aka Kid Koala is a one-of-a-kind sort of turntablist. There's the fact that he's an illustrator, graphic artist, film maker, puppet master and musician. There's the fact that he always wear shorts. Then there's the fact that he sees his chosen means of expression not as a way of showing that he can do faster crabs than anyone else, but as a way of telling stories.

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The CD/DVD combo Live from the Short Attention Span Audio Theater is exciting and fun, offering the listener/viewer great insight into Kid Koala's creative process, but it's way too short. With only 16 minutes on the CD and just about half an hour on the DVD, the "leave 'em wanting more" clichT is taken to the extreme. Still, while it's a frustratingly skimpy affair, there's just enough of that winning Koala quirk to recommend it to hardcore fans. The live performances -- captured from here and the   [ read more ]

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