Kid Koala (CAN) presents: The 12 bit Blues! The Vinyl Vaudeville Tour.

Kid Koala (CAN) presents: The 12 bit Blues! The Vinyl Vaudeville Tour.

Kontakt Öffentlichkeitsarbeit:
Katrin Schmidlin
Tel. +41 61 66 66 008
k.schmidlin@kaserne-basel.ch
Basel, 18. September 2012
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Kid Koala (CAN) presents:
The 12 bit Blues! The Vinyl Vaudeville Tour.
Support: Adira Am ram and the Experience (NYC)
Afterparty DJ Pun & Reezm (ZH)
Fr 29.9. / Doors 21 Uhr / Rossstall 1&2 / Tickets CHF 20.–
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Kid Koala, DJ und Turntablist aus Montréal, war 1996 der erste kanadische Künstler, der vom
angesagten britischen Label Ninja Tune unter Vertrag genommen wurde. Er ist Mitglied der Bands
Deltron 3030 und The Slew und hat auch schon mit Gorillaz, Amon Tobin und Peeping Tom
zusammengearbeitet. Kid Koala ist bekannt für seinen aussergewöhnlichen Stil und seine breit
gefächerte Sammlung von Samples, die von Niesgeräuschen über Jazzplatten aus den 30ern bis hin
zu Monty Python-Songs, Filmmusiken und Ausschnitten aus Comedy-Shows reicht. Zudem ist Eric
San alias Kid Koala auch Illustrator. Er gestaltet alle seine Albumcovers selbst und veröffentlichte
2003 einen Comic: eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer Sekretärin und einem arbeitslosen
Roboter. Mit seiner «12 bit Blues! The Vinyl Vaudeville Tour» feiert Kid Koala sein fünftes Album –
und
verspricht
viel
Spektakel
mit
singenden
Puppen,
tanzenden
Space-Robotern,
überdimensionalen Papp-Grammofonen und tollen Preisen beim 12 bit Blues Bingo! Bevor es
richtig losgeht, sorgt Adira Amram and the Experience aus New York mit einer rasanten
zwanzigminütigen Comedy-Musikshow für gute Laune. Nur für eine Nacht in Basel – nicht
verpassen!
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Offizielle Kurz-Biografie (in Englisch)
Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ who has made a name for himself not only with his music,
but also with his visual art. He has released three solo albums on Ninja Tune: Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome (2001), Some of My Best Friends Are DJs (2003), and Your Mom’s Favorite DJ (2006). He has
also been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew.
He has toured with the likes of Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Money Mark, John Medeski, Mike Patton,
Jack Johnson, DJ Shadow, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has contributed to scores for
director Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World as well as director Rian
Johnson’s Looper and has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, Sesame Street,
the Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim. His unforgettable live shows range from silly touring
turntable carnivals like Short Attention Span Theater (featuring turntable bingo) to quiet-time
events like Music To Draw To.
Following up on the success of 2003’s Nufonia Must Fall, Space Cadet is Kid Koala’s second graphic
novel.
He lives in Montreal with his wife, 2 daughters and pet shrimp Amanda.
KID KOALA presents 12 bit Blues! The VINYL VAUDEVILLE TOUR
To celebrate the release of Kid Koala’s incredible new album, the SP1200 opus '12 bit Blues,' Kid
Koala is heading out on the road.
As is often the case in the Kid Koala universe, the Vinyl Vaudeville tour will involve madness and
mayhem up to and including (but not limited to) puppets, dancing robots, dancing girls and
gigantic cardboard turntables. That’s what people expect and, as usual, the Kid delivers, with a
sweetness of outlook and genuine silliness which is hard not to love. But at root, the show is about
nothing more than the incredible musicianship of Eric San.
“12 Bit Blues” was made by San using the classic SP1200 sampler (very old, very basic, but with a raw
sound you’ll recognise from any classic hip hop tune of the 90s), turntables and a multitrack
recorder. The record was built up layer by layer without any sequencing and minimal effects. In itself
it’s both a raw and rugged, human blast of blues and a highly technical example of sound
manipulation. Live, using two SP1200s and three turntables, San turns it into a showcase for what
making music with machines can really mean. A stunning, exhilarating live performance from a
music-maker at the top of his game.
So come for the fun and silliness, or come for the music, or come for both, but come. It may look like
Kid Koala is messing around, but this is a serious musician.
Aslo introducing kid k's very special guests: ADIRA AMRAM AND THE EXPERIENCE (NYC)
12 Bit Blues - Album
As a real, genuine kid, long before he became Kid Koala, Eric San wanted an E-mu SP-1200 sampler–
the Ark of the Covenant of hip hop production, used by his idols and heroes and imbued with
legendary, almost supernatural, audio powers by rap aficionados worldwide. Unfortunately, he
worked out he would have to deliver around eight million newspapers to buy one. Now, having hit
his thirties, Eric finally has the machine he always craved.
Of course, music production has largely moved on, so Eric began working out what he could do with
it - a kind of reverse engineering back to his childhood self. A little mucking around and it came to
him – the blues was always about stripping music back to its bare essentials, which is exactly what
the SP1200 does, too. Over three days he cut up and reassembled the bed tracks for “12 Bit Blues.” No
sequencing software was used. Using the pads on the machine and a multitrack, Eric played each
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part of the tracks in real time, before finally returning and adding cuts over the top.
The result is a really raw, immediate and strangely beautiful album, much like the music it draws on
for its inspiration. In attempting to outplay and out-think the technology he is working with he
revives the unworldly oddness of blues music before it became a staple of beer adverts and the jamfantasies of middle aged marketing executives. This is the music, ripped and scratched and
distressed until all those souls sold down the crossroads rise up and send shivers down your spine. It’s
that real and, yes, that made up.
Tracklist
1. 1 bit Blues (10,000 miles)
2. 2 bit Blues
3. 3 bit Blues
4. 4 bit Blues
5. 5 bit Blues
6. 6 bit Blues
7. 7 bit Blues
8. 8 bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY)
9. 9 bit Blues
10. 10 bit Blues
11. 11 bit Blues
12. Denoument
www.kidkoala.com
Bildmaterial und Künstler-Dossier finden Sie als Download unter: www.kaserne-basel.ch/medien
Tickets unter: www.starticket.ch
Konzert: ab 16 Jahren
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