Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel SyndromeCarpal Tunnel Syndrome the bonkers sound collage 2000 skratch odyssey from the musical genius that is Kid Koala gets the 25th Anniversary reissue treatment from Ninja Tune. A true musical visionary, Eric San aka Kid Koala combined a sensei like approach to his craft with wild humour, giving his art an utterly inimitable quality. A dedicated turntablist (turntablism: the art of using turntables as a musical instrument to create original sounds, mixes,

I really like how it works around a more relaxed and expressive illustration

Having already written and arranged the suite

but sometimes the conscious mind starts to meld into the universal consciousness through constellation tunnelling

for the mayhem that can only happen between people

“For me the real focus was that the whole record flowed

and you won’t be surprised to hear that’s bottom end

ripped and scratched and distressed until all those souls sold down the crossroads rise up and send shivers down your spine

This led to signing to his friend Flying Lotus’ label Brainfeeder and the masterful soul jazz album “V O R T E X” in 2022

” For a band which has never settled on any one sound or style

The story behind the track’s origins is as idiosyncratic and left-of-centre as you would expect from a band that have spent their career consistently playing by their own rules

” and follows her recent single “Like I Say (I runaway)

Artworked outer sleeve