Kid Koala - Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
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Artist: Kid KoalaEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Ninja Tune
Soundtracks:
- Strat Hear
- Basin Street Blues
- Radio Nufonia
- Stompin' At Le Savoi
- Space Cadet 2
- Grandmaphone Speaks
- Skanky Panky
- Flu Season
- Robochacha
- Elevator Hopper
- Annie's Parlor
- On The Set Of Fender Bender
- More Dance Music
- Vacation Island
- Negatron Speaks
Music reviews of Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
Music Review: Entertaining!
Rating: 5 Stars
I am a big fan of turntablism and especially Kid Koala. If you haven't heard Scratchcratchratchatch, find it! I still have to find a copy of that tape that isn't a bootleg! Album number two for Kid Koala is great. It's different, yes, and after listening to the CD a few times I discovered that:
A) The songs tend to drone on until a funky drum beat is put in moments before the song end. This is the case for most long songs on the album.
B) The CD is made up of individual songs, instead of them mixing together like on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
I enjoy this new approach. It reminds me a lot of his older work. Most songs are long on this album (which I don't quite enjoy because the songs tend to drone on), and a few of them are extremely short (The intro is the shortest, at a whopping 5 seconds...) I would've liked to hear more conversation on "Grandmaphone Speaks" and "Negatron Speaks" and especailly on "Elevator Hopper", which is a lot like Carpel Tunnel's "Barhopper 1 + 2", in which various dialogue are scratched together to make a very amusing conversation.
The album is 30-40 minutes, which isn't that long, but there happens to be 15 songs. Some are 4 minutes and some are 10 seconds, and I would've liked a lot of little one minute songs, like what he did on Scratchcratchratchatch (it never stayed on one beat, it always changed every so often).
Best Song: By far, "Skanky Panky"
Worst Song: Probably "Annie's Parlor". It's just not one of those beats that I'd like to hear for 4 minutes straight.
It's excellent, it's hip-hop, it's jazz, it's funky, it's Kid Koala. This guy's a genius.
Description of Some of My Best Friends Are DJs
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.As his alter-ego, "Kid Koala," might suggest, Eric San applies a joyous childlike vision to his music on Some of My Best Friends Are DJs. Following turns with Money Mark, Deltron 3030, and Lovage, Canada's cheekiest mixologist defied weighty expectations with his beguiling debut album, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Three years later, and Kid Koala has retained his youthful verve. Packaged with a 52-page, self-penned comic and a travel chess kit, Some of My Best Friends Are DJs offers less in the way of music, with the 35-minute running time meaning the restless sonic snippets wisely end before his humor has a chance to grate. Mixing sleazy whisky-bar vibes with adolescent antics, his second album never allows the listener to settle. Moments of playful mixing magic are at times followed by baffling inanity as "Skanky Panky"--with its wonderfully shattered Ska rhythm and frantic scratches--runs into "Flu Season", ostensibly a series of beat-accompanied coughs, sneezes, and sniffs. Blending blues, jazz, and funk with a myriad of bizarre samples, moments of pure eccentric genius such as "Robochacha" and "More Dance Music" make this a flawed yet fascinating slice of beat-driven bravura. --Christopher Barrett
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