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Kid Koala is still a wizard

April 26th, 2011

Kid Koala On Beats In Space (Radiohead Remix) from Tim Sweeney on Vimeo.

Kid Koala On Beats In Space – “Damon Albarn, Kid Koala And Dan The Automator – Untitled” from Tim Sweeney on Vimeo.

Here are some clips of Kid Koala on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space radio show. He performs his Radiohead remix on the first one and a new song he did with Damon Albarn and Dan the Automator on the 2nd. You gotta respect how he’s still using vinyl, nothing digital. He’s got his own vinyl press at home, he bought it from some old German dude and had to go to Germany to learn how to use it.

I’ve known this guy since I was 14. Big up.

UPDATE: here is Koala’s own blog post about his vinyl cutter.

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Kid Koala “The Slew” Tour

September 16th, 2009

The inimitable Kid Koala is going back on road… Make sure you catch him in a city near thee!

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Great Kid Koala interview

January 28th, 2009


Kid Koala from calumpickle on Vimeo.

As you may know, Kid Koala came up in Montreal, my hometown. I have Koala stories for days. Basically when I started cutting at age 13, Eric was one of the most prominent DJs in the city. I met him at my brother’s college radio show and I started going to his apartment in what we call the McGill ghetto (the neighborhood around McGill University, which I later attended) to practice and soak in some wisdom. Before Vestax started making mixers specifically for turntablists, they used to have this tiny mixer called the PMC-005: it looked like a small cash register and was decent for scratching. Koala used it so bought one too. The only problem was that the fader knobs were too tiny. So he showed me how he molded and baked his own. I’m not kidding! He used to buy clay and mold a fader knob, slide it onto the metal prong on the mixer to make the hole and bake it in the oven!

As you can see on the video and by the story I just told, this dude is one of the most creative, DIY, quirky and unique DJs out there. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen him but I hope we cross paths again soon!

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