Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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List Price: CDN$ 19.99 (CAD)
  • Lowest New Price: CDN$ 9.95
  • Lowest Used Price: CDN$ 8.98
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  • Artist : Kid Koala
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0625979103424
  • Format : Enhanced
  • Label : Outside Music
  • Manufacturer : Outside Music
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Outside Music
  • Release Date : 2000-02-15
  • SKU : mon0001018544
  • Studio : Outside Music
  • UPC : 625978103425

On his debut album, turntablist Kid Koala stunned listeners with his densely packed, witty sound pastiches. The Kid's work is both sweet and funky ear candy while also a marvelously intricate, skilled display of turntable skills. Skipping through decades of musical samples with razor sharp beats and a encyclopedia of references, the work on Carpal Tunnel helped legitimize the turntable as instrument. -- S. Duda

- Amazon.ca Canadian Essential

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is possibly one of the most self-referential turntablist releases of all time; one kaleidoscopic track segues into another, punctuated with sampled spoken phrases such as "those crazy sound-effects records you like to show off," "stacks of wax," and "they don't even have any instruments, just two record players." But Kid Koala doesn't just drop in a spoken tidbit like "we're nothing but the nerds they say we are" for a quick laugh. Rather, he lingers lovingly over it, back-spinning with such minute precision that he isolates and reorders every phoneme in a technical tour de force that transcends its own virtuosity when it transmutes seamlessly into an equally chopped-up bebop drum solo. This short (38 minutes) but dense release pulls together an astonishing variety of source material and is consistently engaging and technically impressive, although many tracks revolve around comedic elements (like slightly surreal extracts from an interview with a broadcast sound-effects expert and dating how-tos) that may not stand up to repeated listening. In the same way that Eddie Van Halen is not a better guitarist than Jeff Beck simply because he plays faster, Kid Koala and his contemporaries might not strike everyone as an improvement on the innovations of Grandmaster Flash. --Bob Bannister

- From Amazon.com

Le jeune Montréalais Eric San, alias Kid Koala, a surpris toute la communauté hip hop, en 1999, avec Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, un premier opus paru sur la prestigieuse étiquette Ninja Tune. Avec ce passage remarqué sur disque, il réussissait là où d’autres DJ ont échoué, apportant toute la dextérité de son art à un album d’une grande musicalité et techniquement très fluide. Parsemé d’une ironie propre aux DJ hip hop, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome se rapproche pourtant davantage des improvisations funk, un penchant qu’a déjà démontré Kid Koala au sein du groupe de scène Bullfrog. Le génie musical du jeune marsupial réside dans l’utilisation de centaines d'échantillons pour créer, à l’aide de ses tables tournantes, des rythmes magnifiquement syncopés ("A Night at the Nufonia") ou des mélodies délurées (le solo de trompette dans "Drunk Trumpet"). Une parution majeure, qui a ouvert toutes les portes au jeune prodige, aujourd’hui membre en règle de formations comme Lovage, Deltron 3030 et Gorillaz. --Étienne Côté-Paluck

- Amazon.ca

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: Strut Hear
    • 2: Nerdball
    • 3: Fender Bender
    • 4: Drunk Trumpet
    • 5: Roboshuffle
    • 6: Barhopper 1
    • 7: Music For Morning People
    • 8: Naptime
    • 9: A Night At The Nufonia
    • 10: Temple Of Gloom
    • 11: Scurvy
    • 12: Like Irregular Chickens
    • 13: Barhopper 2
    • 14: Roll Credits

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