Eric Yick Keung San (born December 5, 1974), better known by his stage name Kid Koala , is a Canadian scratch DJ, music producer, theatre producer, film composer, multimedia-performer and visual artist. His career began as a scratch DJ in 1994. Kid Koala works with genres as eclectic as hip hop, ambient, alternative, contemporary classical, blues, classic rock and traditional jazz. He has released 5 solo albums on Ninja Tune, and 3 albums on Arts & Crafts Records, the most recent being Music To Draw To: IO featuring Trixie Whitley . He has also released two award-winning graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet . He has collaborated with artists such as Gorillaz , The Slew , Lovage , The Afiara String Quartet, and Deltron 3030 (of which he is a member).
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32-463: A chess set as part of the packaging. San popularized a method of playing the turntable like a melodic instrument, where a long, single note is dragged under the needle at different speeds, creating different pitches. Since this method of adjusting pitch is imprecise, the resulting notes waver and bend. Thus, in the song "Drunk Trumpet," San uses this method with a trumpet note to simulate a drunken trumpet player, interspersing drunken vocals to complete
48-574: A collaboration between San and Joe Beef's Chef Frédéric Morin. The two joined to create a series of "imaginary journeys with real food and music", inspired by their respective passion for trains. Taking place at a secret location, the experience will remain a mystery with the guests being taken to an undisclosed location, and will feature a specially created course by Morin and a live set of entirely new material by Kid Koala. In early 2017, San released an album, Music to Draw To: Satellite , in collaboration with Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini . He released
64-613: A member of the band, alongside Del the Funky Homosapien. Both later appeared on the second Deltron 3030 record, Event 2 , released in September 2013. The album also featured appearances by Jamie Cullum , Emily Wells and Zack De La Rocha , with interludes performed by actors David Cross , Amber Tamblyn and Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Nakamura is one half of Got a Girl , along with actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead . The duo's debut album, I Love You but I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now ,
80-676: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dan Nakamura Daniel M. Nakamura (born August 29, 1966), better known by his stage name Dan the Automator , is an American record producer. He is the founder of the publishing company Sharkman Music and the record label 75 Ark . Daniel M. Nakamura was born in San Francisco, California , on August 29, 1966. His parents spent time in Japanese internment camps as children. His father worked for
96-400: Is included as the liner notes. Following the release of the album, Kid Koala embarked on an extensive tour, during which he opened for a number of musicians, including Radiohead and Björk . The cabaret -style tour throughout North America, Europe and Australia, known as The Short Attention Span Theatre , featured an unpredictable opening act—three Djs (Kid Koala, P-Love , and DJ Jester
112-500: Is well known for his enigmatic style of turntablism , which uses an unusual collection of samples. He has used samples of music from Charlie Brown television specials, old comedy sketch routines (including those that mock turntablism), people sneezing, and people reading a menu in Cantonese . In 2000, San released his album, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome . He designed and illustrated the cover for this and his later albums. A comic book he drew
128-650: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and his mother taught at City College of San Francisco . As a child, he learned to play violin. While in high school, he became immersed in hip hop culture. He graduated from San Francisco State University . Nakamura started his career as a DJ when he was a teenager. After seeing the younger DJs DJ Qbert and Mix Master Mike performing live, he decided to focus on producing tracks. He first gained attention for his work on Kool Keith 's 1996 album Dr. Octagonecologyst . His debut EP, Music to Be Murdered By ,
144-614: The Filipino Fist ) on eight turntables set up like a band, and a bingo game at intermission among other quirky surprises. Following this tour Kid Koala has performed DJ sets in Asia, as well as in Iceland, Eastern Europe, Russia, and South America whilst working on a new book and a multimedia puppet show. San released a full-length graphic novel, Nufonia Must Fall , which includes a soundtrack CD he composed. Some of my Best Friends are DJs includes
160-611: The alter egos Nathaniel Merriweather and Chest Rockwell, respectively. Their debut album So... How's Your Girl? featured numerous guest musicians, including Róisín Murphy , DJ Shadow , and Del the Funky Homosapien . They released a second album, White People , in November 2004, with collaborators including RZA , Cat Power , and Mike Patton . Nakamura used the Nathaniel Merriweather pseudonym for his Lovage project with Patton and Jennifer Charles . After Paul briefly left
176-446: The duo over a business dispute, Handsome Boy Modelling School have since played further shows and spoken of a forthcoming third album. In 2000, Nakamura joined Del the Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala to form Deltron 3030 . They released their eponymous debut album the same year, featuring guest appearances by Sean Lennon and Damon Albarn . In 2001 he produced the debut album of Albarn's "animated" band Gorillaz , appearing as
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#1732848389914192-457: The effect. When playing live, San often uses records cut with custom sounds from which he creates his own songs. During the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con , Kid Koala performed before a special free showing of the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World . The next year at Comic-Con, he performed before a special premiere of the television series NTSF:SD:SUV:: . In June 2013, his studio album 12 Bit Blues
208-1509: The films The Great Gatsby , Baby Driver , Scott Pilgrim vs. The World , Men, Women & Children , Shaun of the Dead and Looper , among others. He has composed music for the National Film Board of Canada , Cartoon Network , Sesame Street and Adult Swim . He has also been commissioned to create music for runway shows for Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten . Kid Koala's live shows range from touring turntable carnivals like Vinyl Vaudeville, to immersive multimedia shows like Nufonia Must Fall, The Storyville Mosquito, Satellite Turntable Orchestra and his Space Cadet Headphone Concert; each of which express his unique form of storytelling with music, animation, film and interactive entertainment. Kid Koala has toured six continents and lives with his wife and two daughters in Montreal, Canada . San attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada, but graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School , in Rockville , Maryland , U.S., and went on to study elementary education at McGill University , in Montreal , Quebec . San began by distributing copies of his demo tape Scratchcratchratchatch to students living in residence at McGill. He
224-648: Was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize . In June 2014, the Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall Live made its world premiere at Toronto's Luminato Festival. Directed by K. K. Barrett , (Oscar-nominee for Her ) , this live adaptation of the graphic novel unfolds via a real-time filming of more than a dozen miniature stages, a full crew and cast of puppets. San and the Afiara Quartet provide live scoring on piano, strings and turntables. San also has another project debuting at Luminato Festival entitled The Lost Train ,
240-414: Was released in 1989. He released his debut album A Much Better Tomorrow in 2000, an expansion of his 1996 EP A Better Tomorrow . Keith featured extensively across both versions. He composed the score for the 2019 comedy film Booksmart , with the soundtrack album released that same year. In 1999, Nakamura and Prince Paul formed the collaborative project Handsome Boy Modeling School , assuming
256-600: Was released in 2014. In September 2015, they embarked on a four-city tour of Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles, where they played their entire album live, including a cover of Handsome Boy Modeling School's "I've Been Thinking". In 2023, Handsome Boy Modeling School released a limited release LP of 7 new songs in collaboration with Fords Gin. Kid Koala Kid Koala has toured with Radiohead , Beastie Boys , Arcade Fire , Money Mark , A Tribe Called Quest , Mike Patton , DJ Shadow and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band . He has contributed to scores for
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