Eric San
Eric San
Eric San, who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the Australian rock band Wolfmother, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. He has also made appearances with many other artists from Amon Tobin to the Preservation...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusician
CountryCanada
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It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.
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It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited.
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I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved.
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.
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Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.
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When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
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It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
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If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
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My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
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There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.
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Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.
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Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
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I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
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A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.