Re: (idm) Kid Koala's age

From brian j tang
Sent Fri, Nov 7th 1997, 16:32

> > 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.
> 


When he played here for the Ninja Tune show, he did not have 
headphones on.  He Beatmatched flawless.  No idea how he pulled that 
one off.

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