My Main Kid Koala Page

A Guide To The One Known As Kid Koala

Welcome to the world of new Ninja Tune signing, Kid Koala.
A place where Kung-Fu flicks, childrens records, 
B-Movies, television commercials, scratching, and fucked up beats all 
collide to form strange new interpretations of hip-hop

Some important things you need to know about Kid Koala...

Real Name : Eric San

Age : 22

Born : Yes, he was. In Vancouver, B.C, Canada, to be exact. He know 
resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Inspiration : Watching bad romantic comedies, crafty home decorating shows,
	      and his pet fish 'Easy Ride' the puffer

  	    : A love of freaky noises which was instilled at an 
	      early age cuz his pops used to sing these little rhymes
 	      in Chinese to try to get the kids to do the household chores

	  ie: Brushing Your Teeth
	
(phonetic) "Chak chak ga gna gna ganeh ganeh, chak chak goonah goonah				
(loose translation) "Brushing brushing the teeth teeth unhuh unhuh"

	  ie: Setting the Dinner Table

(phonetic) "Mat mat ga toi toi ganeh  ganeh, mat mat mat mat goonah goonah"
(loose translation) "wipe wipe the table table unhuh 	unhuh"		

Hokey, but in a funky-ass sort of way (early scratch stylee). "For some
strange reason those rhythms often  weasel their way into my scratch
improvisations, so I gotta give props to pops"

Other Projects: Plays turntables in an 8 piece jazz-funk band 
		'Bullfrog'

Favorite Record Store : Salvation Army

Current Top 3 Records : 	1. Speech Training for Talking Birds
				2. Demolition Sound Effects	
				3. Here Comes The Monchhichi

Awards : 	Montreal DMC Mixing Champion 1995
		
Voted best bug collector at Evans Lake Camp (fifth grade)

History in Scratchin' :	 cutting up discs for 6 years not including the one
year spent learning basics cutting up floppy 45's on sisters stereo using
phono/radio switch.

Other Releases : 	- ScratchHappyLand
			- Two tracks on 'Return Of The DJ 
			Vol.2' from San	Francisco's 'Tha Bomb' in February 97.
			- Demo cassette, 'Scratchcratchratchatch'
			
Tentative Title of First Ninja Tune 
Release : 'Carpel-Tunnel Syndrome" Due out summer 1998

Kid Koala will be tearing it up at 
various Stealth dates in the UK and all
around North America in the first 
quarter of '97. Watch for a couple 12"s
and a full length release from 
Kid Koala on Ninja Tune later this year.

For more info contact :	
				Ninja Tune
				PO Box 373
				Westmount Station
				Montreal, Que.
				H3Z 2T5
				Canada
				
				Fax.		514 937-9980
				e-mail.	ninjah@generation.net