Kid Koala

Kid Koala performing in 2010
Background information
Birth name Eric San
Born 1974
Origin Vancouver
Montreal
Genres turntablism
Occupations DJ
Instruments turntables
Labels Ninja Tune
Associated acts Deltron 3030
Bullfrog
Lovage
The Slew
Website kidkoala.com

Eric San (born 1974),[1] 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 Hall Jazz Band and has made contributions to Lovage,[2] Peeping Tom,[3] Gorillaz[4] and numerous other projects.

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Biography [link]

San attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School, in Rockville, Maryland, U.S., and went on to study elementary education at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec.[5] He would eventually distribute copies of his demo tape Scratchcratchratchatch to students living in residence at McGill. He is well known for his enigmatic style of turntablism, which uses an unusual collection of samples. He has been known to use samples of music from Charlie Brown television specials, old comedy sketch routines (including those that mock turntablism), people sneezing, and people reading a menu in Cantonese. He is well known for his cheerful demeanor at concerts and having a good sense of humour.

San is also an illustrator and an artist, having designed all of his own album covers. A comic book he drew is included as the liner notes to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Following the release of the album, Kid Koala toured extensively, during which time he opened for some of his favorite artists, including Radiohead and Björk.[6][7]

He has also released a full length graphic novel, Nufonia Must Fall, which includes a soundtrack CD he composed. Some of my Best Friends are DJs includes a chess set as part of the packaging.

This album was supported by a cabaret-style tour throughout North America, Europe and Australia known as The Short Attention Span Theatre, which featured an unpredictable opening act—3 Djs (Kid Koala, P-Love, and DJ Jester the Filipino Fist) on 8 turntables set up like a band, and a bingo game at intermission among other tremendously quirky surprises. Following this tour Kid Koala has performed DJ sets all over Asia, as well as in Iceland, Eastern Europe, Russia, and South America whilst working on a new book (apparently about a mosquito trying to play a clarinet) and a unique puppet show set to take place in 2008.

San popularized a method of playing the turntable like a melodic instrument, where a long, single note is dragged under the needle at different speeds, creating different pitches. Since this method of adjusting pitch is imprecise, the resulting notes waver and bend. Thus, in the song "Drunk Trumpet," San uses this method with a trumpet note to simulate a drunken trumpet player, interspersing drunken vocals to complete the effect.

San released the Kid Koala album, entitled Your Mom's Favorite DJ (ZENCD127), on 25 September 2006.

As of October 2006 San was married and had recently embarked on a 90-city tour.

In 2008 he toured as the opening performer for DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist's "The Hard Sell" tour where he ended his set with a now legendary mix of "Moon River" where he essentially creates and edits in an extended violin solo by playing various long violin notes from the song's instrumental section at different pitches on four turntables, all live.

During San Diego Comic-Con 2010, Kid Koala performed before a special free showing of the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The next year at Comic-Con, he performed before a special premiere of the television series NTSF:SD:SUV::.

Discography [link]

Solo Projects [link]

Albums [link]

EPs and Singles [link]

  • 1996: Scratchappyland - selections from the "Scratchcratchratchatch" - 10" released by Ninja Tune (ZEN10KK)
  • 2000: Emperor’s Main Course In Cantonese (Ninja Tune ZEN1093)
  • 2003: Basin Street Blues (Ninja Tune ZEN7142)

DVDs [link]

Books [link]

Mixtape [link]

  • 2010: Solid Steel: Music To Draw To... (Ninja Tune)

Remixes [link]

Appearances [link]

Group Projects [link]

  • 1998: Bullfrog - Bullfrog Theme (Independent)
  • 2000: Bullfrog - EP1 (Independent)
  • 2000: Bullfrog - EP2 (Independent)
  • 2000: Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (75 Ark)
  • 2000: Deltron 3030 - Virus (75 Ark)
  • 2001: Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030: The Instrumentals (75 Ark)
  • 2001: Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact (75 Ark)
  • 2001: Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)
  • 2001: Lovage - Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By: The Instrumentals (75 Ark)
  • 2001: Bullfrog - s/t (Ropeadope Records)
  • 2004: Bullfrog / Robertson - Deeper Shade of Green (Independent)
  • 2007: Martin Tétreault & Kid Koala - s/t (Phon-O-Victo)
  • 2009: The Slew - 100% (Puget Sounds)

Film [link]

Composer [link]

  • 2005: Strum (short) - Original music [8]
  • 2005: A Girl's Guide to Modern Dating (short) - Original music [9]
  • 2006: Jaime Lo, Small and Shy (short) - Original music [10]

Contributor [link]

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ "Canadian Cyberquotes", The Ottawa Citizen, July 20, 2007, Page F9
  2. ^ "Discogs". Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By. https://www.discogs.com/release/47883. Retrieved 2008-04-22. 
  3. ^ "Discogs". Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom. https://www.discogs.com/release/698495. Retrieved 2008-04-22. 
  4. ^ "Gorillaz Unofficial". The 'real' people behind the Gorillaz project. https://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/biography/kidkoala.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-22. 
  5. ^ Bryant, Luke. "The new faces of music: Kid Koala's got all the technical moves but more important, he's making new music" The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia), March 20, 2004, Pg. D3
  6. ^ "Ninjatune Artists - Kid Koala" www.ninjatune.com, accessed December 20, 2007 [1]
  7. ^ "BBC - collective - kid koala interview" www.bbc.co.uk, accessed December 20, 2007 [2]
  8. ^ IMDB
  9. ^ IMDB
  10. ^ IMDB
  11. ^ "Nigel Godrich-produced Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World detailed", Consequence of Sound, July 22, 2010 [3]

External links [link]

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Podcasts:

Kid Koala

ALBUMS

Radio 1: Short Attention Span Audio Theater

Released 2012

Radio 2: Cardio Workouts

Released 2012

Radio 3: Music To Draw To

Released 2012

12 Bit Blues

Released 2012

Space Cadet: Original Still Picture Score

Released 2011

Phon-O-Victo

Released 2007

Your Mom's Favorite DJ

Released 2006

Short Attention Span Theatre Tour - Sydney [02-03-05]

Released 2005

Def Beat Remixes, Volume 3

Released 2005

Scratchcratchratchatch

Released 2004

Some of My Best Friends Are DJs

Released 2003

Nufonia Must Fall

Released 2003

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Released 2000

Live in Montreal: Nufonia Must Fall Book Tour 2003

Live at the Knitting Factory, March 29, 2003

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PLAYLIST TIME:

Hope Will Find A Way

by: Kid Koala

Yeah Yeah yeah yeah YEA!!
ican see a glimpse of your goodness,
in the beauty of the wide open sea .
i can see a ray,
of your mercy.
let your light have strayed,
through the clouds to me
(Chourus)
Everywhere I go,
i'm followed by this rainbow.
It's full of colors that remind me.
Speak your love for me.
And I can almost reach out and touch it.
I can almost see your face,
And I can almost see this world full of grace
like it was meant to be.
Goodness and Mercy and Peace.
Flowin' through the land.
From the heights of mountains to the depths
of the heart of the sea.
Troubles like clouds blown away,
If I could only capture this vision today
and sing it like healing,
to every broken heart.
I know that hope will find A way A way
I know that hope will find a way
I can feel the rain, it's fallin
like whispers from heaven to me
Carried by the wind,
It's Callin,
it's comin' to set my world free
(Chorus)
In the moonlight I lay back
Lost me in the stars
They can tie this in their beauty
it reminds me, of who you are
who you are, who you are
Goodness and Mercy and Peace.
Flowin' through the land.
From the heights of mountains to the depths
of the heart of the sea.
Troubles like clouds blown away,
If I could only capture this vision today
and sing it like healing,
to every broken heart.
I know that hope will find A way A way
I know that hope will find a way A way




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