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What's In My Bag № 616

Kid Koala

DJ · Producer 7 albums picked

Eric Yick Keung San, 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.

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Ep #616 ·
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What Kid Koala said · 4 records

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"Sometimes things will come along where you think you know what's possible in that format, whether it's music or film or books, and then something will just like destroy that, and this is one of them: Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back."
Watch this moment 1:52
Thelonious Alone In San Francisco
Thelonious Monk ·2026
"I'm alone in San Francisco at Thelonious Monk was also alone in San Francisco at some point but he's a hero of mine. Amazing, you can just listen to less than one bar of any of his recordings and know immediately it was him."
Watch this moment 4:19
NTS Session 4
Autechre ·2018
"Picked up the new Autechre record. These guys are great, always just so far ahead of the curve and pushing the equipment they're using to the limit and come and go full of stuff you've never heard before."
Watch this moment 6:30
Parallels
Nosaj Thing ·2017
"One of my favorite producers on the planet is Nosaj Thing from Los Angeles. He's great, just really elegantly produced, you know, beautiful cinematic electronic beat."
Watch this moment 7:03
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