小简介
Kid Koala这个名字已经成为“搓盘”的代名词,高超的技术使他一度为Radiohead、Bjork和Beastie Boys的巡回演唱会暖场。他的专辑《Gorlliaz》达到了多白金唱片数,并且拥有自己的乐队,牛蛙乐队。与英国著名的独立电子舞曲厂牌 Ninja Tune(忍者之声)签约的一名华裔,Kid Koala在这行已经长达20年,所以他的名气无人能敌。
Kid Koala,是加拿大华裔Eric San的艺名,电子舞曲界多才多艺的顽童,Gorillaz及好几个玩票电子组合成员。Kid Koala的本名Eric San,他的爸爸妈妈都是香港裔高中教师,住在蒙特利尔市中心非唐人街区的邱吉尔中学附近。3岁开始在纸片上用钢笔涂鸦,在其读大学时出版了第一本钢笔漫画书;而5岁开始的古典钢琴训练,以及对爵士乐的狂热,后来他终于变成了一个选择多种渠道表达自己的跨界音乐人。
by Sean Cooper
Chinese-Canadian turntablist Kid Koala was born Eric San in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1975. Classically trained on the piano, San instead put his fingers to work on a pair of Technics 1200s starting in the late 80s. He was a college pub DJ and bedroom turntable manipulator for nearly a decade before landing a recording deal with U.K. experimental hip-hop duo Coldcuts Ninja Tune imprint in 1997. Sans eclectic approach to sound collage is actually closer to the latters far-flung beat experiments than the old-school New York and L.A. references that most often form the canon of the scratch DJs art. Its also a circle-closer of sorts: Sans nascent mixing aesthetic was influenced early on by classic Coldcut records such as (Hey Kids) What Time Is It? and their 7 Minutes of Madness massacre of Eric B. & Rakims Paid in Full. In fact, the coincidence of Koala signing to his heroes label (despite the fact that its based thousands of miles away and home mostly to instrumental trip-hop and computer funk producers) was less a coincidence than it would at first appear; San managed to arrange an inadvertent car ride with the group when their labels Stealth tour passed through Montreal in 1996, making sure his mixtape, Scratchappyland, was in the car stereo well beforehand. Excerpts from that tape doubled as Kid Koalas identically titled solo debut when Ninja Tune, duly impressed, released it as a 10 in July 1997. Koala also appeared on the second volume of The Bombs Return of the DJ compilation with his track Statics Waltz, another excerpt from his mixtape. Subsequent Ninja Tune releases included Kid Koala remixes of DJ Foods Scratch Yer Head and (fittingly) Coldcuts classic Beats and Pieces, plus the 2000 full-length Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The follow-up, Some of My Best Friends Are DJs, appeared in 2003. Two years later Live from the Short Attention Span Audio Theater, a CD/DVD set, came out, followed by Your Moms Favorite DJ in 2006.