This is why I love BB. A post years ago, by Cory, I think, when mash-ups were all the rage, turned me on to Kid Koala. I believe that the album was Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and wasn’t quite a mash-up, but a beautiful repurposing of old jazz records, to which the Kid added his special secret sauce of turntableism, scraps of movie and radio dialog, and quite memorable arrangements. The album included Fender Bender, and Drunk Trumpet, which I think were songs that really exemplified his work during the early days of web 2.0.
The album also included the notable Music For Morning People, quite memorable but difficult for some to bear, and difficult for others to hear over the sound of their own laughter. Rarely does a song come along that causes me to completely lose my shite with laughter over it’s arrangement and barrage of perfectly times snipits of movie dialog. I highly recommend listening to while enjoying a second cocktail at twilight.
While looking at the Wikipedia page for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome album, I learned that “the record was made by hand-cutting vinyl records onto an eight-track recorder without computer splicing or samplers.”, and that it included a companion comic book created entirely by Kid Koala (aka Eric San) himself. Yep, this kid is the real deal.
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