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.
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!
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! ----------
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...
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:
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!)
@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! ----------