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..friends are DJs. This is the new album from Kid Koala... well worth checking out if you like turntabilism or jazz and can appreciate playful music. I always liked Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, but felt that the loose, lazy style to it wasn't entirely intentional... it lacked a certain something and it seemd like kid's skills were slightly lacking (they weren't- he won DMC one year). This is a similair style but executed much more skillfully, being a lot more listenable whilst still retaining the "not too serious" style that made the first album such a novelty. |
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thjey had a ballet at the record store some of my best frineds (who i havent met yet) are djs contest im gonna get him to come to my town and rawk the dead scene here, or at least i tried |
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is this the one that comes with a fat comic book too, or was that just a promo? |
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i've been thinking about whether or not to get this because while i admire, respect, and appreciate koala's first album, i never put it on. i like his various collaborations with automator a lot more because they make for great albums and they still show off his amazing turntable skills. now ceri do you think his new album is one i'd actually put on to listen to like i would an aphex, bjork, outkast, etc. album that has a lot of variety but is very cohesive and enjoyable? btw i read your hip-hop email the day you sent it, i didn't reply but i made a note to check out that album when i get home and can use p2p over break. |
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Yes, this has a comic book too and a chess game :) |
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i was holding this album when i went shoping today...but i wasnt sure about it so i bought some other stuff but i'll check it out and go back if its any good :) |
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Yep that's the thing I really like it - it's that kid koala sound, but a lot more listenable. One of my main criticism of a lot of turntable music is that whilst I find it interesting from a technical point of view and like the sounds, I'll rarely listen to a whole album (apart from "Built from Scratch" by the x-ecutioners... that gets regularly played) and tend to only like one or two tracks off them. As it happens I burnt a cd-r of a load of standout "listenable" turntablism tracks earlier this evening :) Did you see my post re: Qbert & Automator- Bear Witness yesterday? Anyway, in answer to your question, I've been listening to this one and whilst some of the skit like bits of dialogue ar ea bit long, you don't find yourself skipping them. There's the odd duff track like Space Cadet2, but most of the album is very good. It flows very well and you can certainly sit and listen form start to finish (especially as it's only 35 minutes long!) |
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yea i saw it and replied (that post) i might pick up that koala album then.. at the very least i'll download it and give it some listens. thanks. btw some of the stuff on rob swift's solo album from last year is very cool.. check out "salsa scratch" and "in the ghetto" .. i think the x-ecutioners' greatest strength asides from their awesome scratching skills is, like dj premier, they pick the perfect LYRICS to sample to spice up their songs |
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Yes, the lyrics to x-ecutioners stuff are so catchy... it's almost like pop music, I find myself singin under my breath, "You, You... You can Run, you can run, run, but no man, no man, no man is safe." I think their other great strength is using some standard scratch samples, but scratching them in unusual ways to stop them sounding samey. I've heard one track of that Rob Swift solo album and liked it, I'l have to check it out. |
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i love this album. and i can't honestly say i had really gotten into too much kid koala until he came to calgary with the "short attention span theater" tour. oh my god. it was just incredible. probably the most fun show i've ever been to. and watching him and dj whatshisfacewho'snameisuddenlycan'tremember was just incredible. such a good show. and that's when i became a fanfan. but i enjoyed this album quite a bit. just super mellow, chilled. nothing super-fancy. and that's kinda nice for a change. |
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the comic in this rules |
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i like how kid koala made a comic and the music provides a soundtrack to it |
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i love Kid Koalo's Lament on the Lovage album, and i must say i'm intrigued by the comic and chess game editons to his latest release. this is just with the regular copy or are those only included in some sort of special edition? |
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So far as I know, the comic comes with all versions. I don't know if there are two possible versions with the vinyl version this time round (on carpel tunnel syndrome, some vinyl releases had a comic book the size of the CD one, others had the same comic, but larger in scale). |
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Did anyone hear him on Radio One last night? I heard Mary Ann mention something about an album he intends to release in 2009 that's a sort of murder-mystery album, made entirely out of snippets of old records of course :) Should be interesting! |
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I didn't know he was on last night, I'll give that a listen from the archives tommorow. I love the way his albums are planned out years in advance :) |
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he's Canadian ain't he? I have Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, and like you Ceri, I can appreciate the whole thing with DJing, and I love watching DJs perform, but I find Carpel Tunnel Syndrome a little hard to listen as an album... as said, it's a little more novelty then anything else I guess... I'll definitely keep this one in mind though!! |
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Yep, he is Canadian (from Montreal I think)... |
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I got the basin street blues Ep with the video / cartoonish New orleans funerals with a jazz band. Really good with the music ; I'm not sure he did that by himself. |
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Yes, he lives in Montreal. I've hung out with him a couple of times. |
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Just heard that... he's like a big kid, it's great, he had a gigling fit when Mary asked him about murder mystery album :) Thirdball, is he as nice a bloke as he seems? |
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Oh my word! Kid Koala is doing an 8 deck collaboration with Radiohead... Should be broadcast on radio 1 in the near future :D |
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:D I agree about him, he's like a big kid... his 'rendition' of Moon River was fabulous :) |
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Yup :) |
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I've seen him on Muchmusic a few times, maybe even before he was on Ninja Tune... hmmm, no he must've been on Ninja Tune cause he was talking about Carpel Tunnel Syndrome... he seems like a nice chap! :) |
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