Re: (idm) Kid Koala's age

From Joe Rice
Sent Thu, Nov 6th 1997, 20:19

At 11:56 AM -0800 11/6/97, Peter Bense wrote:
>> Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with
>> all the happy face stickers on the outer track?  Does the
>> needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out
>> or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks?
>
>From what I understand about Kid Koala he doesn't use headphones
>during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the
>records up by just having a piece of tape on the starting groove
>and shebam drops it right into the part of the cut that he wants
>to scratch or whatever.  My guess is that the happy face sticker
>was just a cute cuemarker of some sort.
>
>
>/peter

Yep, standard hip-hop battle DJ style. No time to find a beat by listening
for it...

Joe