Eric San Quotes

• You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it’s music. It’s not really violent in intent at all, it’s really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

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• When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

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• When I’m playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it’s about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it’s strictly about music.

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• When I started, there weren’t that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

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• We’re on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

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• There’s individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

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• Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

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• Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

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• My scratching I don’t really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

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• It’s funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

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• If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they’re based in the U.K. I’m a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

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• If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you’ll probably get the humor in the audio part.

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• I’m not here to battle anybody. In the end it’s just an instrument. That shouldn’t be a concept.

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• I try and make little stories. Whether it’s with a pencil or with bits of records, it’s really the same thing.

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• I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

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• I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

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• Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

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• Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.

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• Even though you were radiated doesn’t mean you get to have that sort of power.

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• Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I’m sorry I do not have a car.

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Eric San (21)

Birth:	1974
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Disc Jockey, Musician

About

Eric San, who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the Australian rock band Wolfmother, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. He has also released a full length graphic novel, Nufonia Must Fall, which includes a soundtrack CD he composed. He released the Kid Koala album, entitled Your Mom's Favorite DJ, on 25 September 2006. In June 2013, his studio album 12 bit Blues was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.

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