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.”

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