Kid Koala Talks Music
Eric San: It seemed like if you can develop this little demented world then anything can happen and you can have like a really exciting job where no two days are like because it all makes sense.
Rebecca Brayton: He is not your typical DJ. Hi, I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to WatchMojo.com. And today, we’re speaking with Kid Koala.
So, when did you first decide to become a DJ and follow it as a profession?
Eric San: When I was 12, the first time I heard scratching really. Something like that I was in a record store and I heard this scratching come in off the speakers then they’re playing a mix hit. I was immediately fascinated with that sound. I have to figure out how they do that. How do they make those noises?
Rebecca Brayton: What kinds of music are you most interested in working with?
Eric San: It’s not the type of music like now I have a record cutter so I actually make my own records and so I might just go play like an eon of island and record that onto the record. And then when it’s on the record, I can bend it on the other notes.
Rebecca Brayton: Do you find the music has to have a common thread.
Eric San: The range of the turntable is that it can bend anything so that it can comfortably fit in any genre so I’m not really about squat like the Jack’s—where it hurts. I’m almost like try to find things of those two perfect parts that just work perfectly together.
When they all come together, it just sort of fits into like a demented little universe where it makes sense. They might be from be completely different styles of music or instruments or whatever it is, era’s given. I like recording some surf guitar and putting that over like some swing drums which would be reminiscent of something from the 30s but then you apply the surf guitar and then maybe of a spokening word radio beat from the 70’s and you can make this impossible band happen.
Rebecca Brayton: Is that why you bring in kind of like the spokening word comedy records and stuff like that?
Eric San: That’s just because I was raised on the Muppet Show. For instance they had the same format, a lot of TV shows they have for instance. Here’s your time slot. But then within that time slot, they were able to go from pigs in space to a frog singing a ballad, the bear telling jokes or come from pig, it’s all in there and you don’t even, that night—this makes sense, this is the Muppet Show. And I think that’s the thing with the turntable. I was like it can go to all those places and no one can tell you what it turns it, what record sounds like because it can sound like anything. Most applied by everything you can do once it's on a record. So, it’s infinite really. It’s freedom to me.
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