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J-Sin
120 posts
Oct 04, 2012
3:18 AM
Kid Koala's new album "12 bit Blues" is a feverish mixture of old blues samples, turntablism and chiptune/12-bit computer sounds, with plenty of harp too. I don't know about you, but I have never heard anything like this before. Blues has merged with hiphop and other new styles before, but this is a disturbingly lovable and deep new approach. Son House and Robert Pete Williams are singing from beyond the grave I tell you...

Harmonically, this is might be one of the best examples. Sounds like a harplooper artist in the beginning.



I urge all of you to give the whole album a listen. It invokes very bluesy feelings at least in me.

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tookatooka
3097 posts
Oct 04, 2012
6:21 AM
Interesting!
Joe_L
2086 posts
Oct 04, 2012
7:34 AM
Wow! That really sucked. If its a new chapter in Blues, I hope it's an abbreviated chapter.

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HarpNinja
2730 posts
Oct 04, 2012
8:56 AM
I have this going on Spotify. Other than the vocal treatment - pitch shifting, primarily - I like it. The vocals don't do it for me as I feel they are being too manipulated, but the grooves are cool. Thanks for sharing!

I really like the R.L. Burnside stuff with Fat Possum, and this isn't too far removed from that.
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nacoran
6120 posts
Oct 04, 2012
9:41 AM
Cool. I can see why old-schoolers might not like it, but I like it.

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HarpNinja
2732 posts
Oct 04, 2012
1:09 PM
If it is the same as it has always been, then it isn't new. ;)

New isn't synonymous with right, good, better, or any other positive/negative adjective. It just means it is new. Now excuse me while I pump up Electric Mud.
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Noodles
348 posts
Oct 04, 2012
2:38 PM
This is Kid Koala (I believe)

Blues starts around :45

The Iceman
477 posts
Oct 04, 2012
3:01 PM
very cool. can't bury my head in the sands of time gone by, so am always interested in a contemporary concept of the ODBG stuff.

Sounds as if someone booked Muddy Waters alone with Portishead as his back up band.

(to those that found J-Sin's post interesting, Portishead is worth checking out, too).
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isaacullah
2139 posts
Oct 04, 2012
7:40 PM
Yeah, this is awesome stuff. Respectful combo of turntablism and the blues, detracting from neither, creating something unique and new from the both. This is absolutely the kind of music I would LOVE to be making, combing live play with sampling, turntablism, and looping. Through some live slam poetry or positive hip hop rap into the mix, and then you'd really have something awesome!
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bonedog569
642 posts
Oct 04, 2012
7:44 PM
trippy - me like
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Frank
1259 posts
Oct 05, 2012
4:22 AM

The Kid is a force to be reckoned with, much talent to be appreciated there!

Question posed from the OLWG > Old- Living- White- Guys < ...How many albums can you play at one time when doing that and is it possible to play the high end of an album? It looks like in the video he sticks to the low end of the album...
Baker
242 posts
Oct 05, 2012
5:11 AM
Thanks for posting. I love this, have been a fan of Kid Koala for quite a while. I recognise the samples in this track, although I can't put my finger on where from, I don't know if I know the original tune or if it has been sampled before.

It's in a similar vain Moby's Natural Blues, sampled from Vera Hall – Trouble so Hard:

rbeetsme
849 posts
Oct 05, 2012
8:17 AM
All new to me, never explored DJ performance. Is there a copyright concern with playing this stuff? How would you describe this, nerd blues?
GamblersHand
388 posts
Oct 05, 2012
8:31 AM
Reminds me of Little Axe/ Skip MacDonald


apskarp
600 posts
Oct 06, 2012
4:45 AM
Like it. I've been bored with the traditional blues lately. I need these kind of things to get things going... :)

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Frank
1272 posts
Oct 06, 2012
7:17 PM

Here is sumpin I did about 10 yrs ago that is a little different.
Rick Davis
776 posts
Oct 07, 2012
8:45 AM
I like it a lot.

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Frank
1276 posts
Oct 08, 2012
9:25 AM

Thank you Rick...here is more of the psychedelic trance type thing I did from the same era...

Last Edited by on Oct 08, 2012 9:26 AM
isaacullah
2207 posts
Dec 10, 2012
8:54 AM
FYI, full album stream (free) of "12 bit blues" is available here: http://www.prefixmag.com/news/stream-kid-koala-12-bit-blues-full-album/69386/

I am digging this album more than pretty much anything else I've heard in 2012. It's at the top of my "best of 2012" list for sure...
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TetonJohn
19 posts
Dec 10, 2012
9:55 AM
Tangle Eye

Maybe the Alan Lomax remix from Tangle Eye has been discussed here before (it's a few years old now), but, in case not, here is one cut with some harp that was put on the tube. I really like the album -- tastefully done i think. (Hoping my link insertion will work!)
daijoubu
15 posts
Dec 10, 2012
8:36 PM
Kid Koala has come through my Youtube playlists at work more than once. He's really got some talent and fits into an interesting niche.

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isaacullah
2208 posts
Dec 11, 2012
8:29 AM
@TetonJohn: Thanks for that link to TangleEye That stuff is great! What a smart idea to remix Alan Lomax's "southern journey" like that! Brilliant!
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