Since emerging as a teenaged DJ-wunderkind in the mid ’90s, Eric San, AKA Kid Koala, has always pushed himself to be different. His debut was a dizzying multilayered, hand-cut affair, a technique he’s since parlayed into stints with funk group Bullfrog, spaced out hip-hop all-stars Deltron 3030, and a soundtrack to his own graphic novel. Now the Montreal-based turntablist has teamed up with friend and fellow DJ Dylan “Dynomite D” Frombach as The Slew, creating a dirty-blues rock record built out of hand-cut samples with a rock-star assisted live show. Four and a half years in the making, San describes the group’s debut, 100%, as “sludge-Blues a la The Bomb Squad.”
Turntable master Kid Koala has joined forces with Dynomite D (known for remixing Money Mark and collaborating with the Beastie Boys), as well as the former rhythm section of Australian band Wolfmother, to form a new group
Canadian turntablist Kid Koala'Eric San to his peoples'is a Ninja Tune recording artist with the self-processed goal of producing 'radio plays with background music where you can add the dialogue in.' 'Vinyl Vaudeville' he's called his approach in the past. And on this latest release, You Mom's Favorite DJ, he's offering another stylus-stuttered revue for review, replete with the smeared tone tricks listeners have come to expect.
Were he a humble kung-fu master, Kid Koala's 'Drunken Trumpet' style would be renowned for its transformative, crowd-teasing foibles, much ...
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