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Kid Koala: Eric San
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The Nufonia Must Fall Book Tour with Kid Koala, P-Love and DJ Jester rolls into Butterfly (1710 Mission St., San Francisco) on March 28. There will be two sets a night. For information and reservations, call 415.864.8999.
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In 1974, Kid Koala a.k.a Eric San was born in Vancouver, Canada. By the time he was twelve years old, and after many years of classical piano lessons, the young Eric discovered an increasingly popular sound that he would eventually make all his own. After making his first "scratch" on his sister’s record player, he began saving his money from paper routes to buy his first turntable set-up.
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Armed with two wheels of steel, Eric "Kid Koala" San assembles patchwork samples into a flowing aural puzzle, mixing funky beats with jittery scratching. Strange vocal snippets and found sound land in perfect rhythm over seemingly endless streams of mellow Funk and warm grooves, creating a fully soundtracked read-along story for the mentally disturbed beat-head. He's more than just the next set of extremely nimble fingers, which he proved on his wicked demo Scratchcratchratchatch, later re-released as Scratchhappyland. Rather, his addition of live drumming and instrumentation helps further demolish the blurring lines between jazz, Funk, and instrumental hip-hop.
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NME "Kid Koala makes adorably cute records beat beatz and warm, cheeky hooks. Part Lemon Jelly and part DJ Shadow" ...JOCKEY SLUT "He may have been scratching for years but San Still approaches the decks with all the glee of a toddler with a new toy, spinning together jazz, blues and the inevitable stereo test samples at a perky pace" ....ROLLING STONE "Top spinner impressive soundscapes that will ... make you crack a smile"
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San's semi-autobiographical album is his third as Kid Koala, a personal approach that ends up with two tracks lasting just over half an hour between them. And before you cry robbery, there's so much going on musically in that period that by the end there's no complaints.
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