Salvador Santana
Keyboard City
| Jan | 20 |
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.”
To my feeble mind, this band could be a lot of folks’ choice in the next decade, as well. If you’d told me in 2k that they’d be my choice for “Band of 2KX” I wouldn’t have believed it, but if these cats stay true to their inspirations and keep moving forward, sideways, whatever, their deepest work may very likely be yet to come. As for my festival choice, this American classic was a game-changer and remains crucial.
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