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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome [Enhanced]

Kid Koala (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

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Product Details
1. Strut Hear
2. Nerdball
3. Fender Bender
4. Drunk Trumpet
5. Roboshuffle
6. Barhopper 1
7. Music For Morning People
8. Naptime
9. A Night At The Nufonia
10. Temple Of Gloom
11. Scurvy
12. Like Irregular Chickens
13. Barhopper 2
14. Roll Credits

Product Description

Amazon.ca Canadian Essential

On his debut album, turntablist Kid Koala stunned listeners with his densely packed, witty sound pastiches. The Kid's work is both sweet and funky ear candy while also a marvelously intricate, skilled display of turntable skills. Skipping through decades of musical samples with razor sharp beats and a encyclopedia of references, the work on Carpal Tunnel helped legitimize the turntable as instrument. -- S. Duda

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is possibly one of the most self-referential turntablist releases of all time; one kaleidoscopic track segues into another, punctuated with sampled spoken phrases such as "those crazy sound-effects records you like to show off," "stacks of wax," and "they don't even have any instruments, just two record players." But Kid Koala doesn't just drop in a spoken tidbit like "we're nothing but the nerds they say we are" for a quick laugh. Rather, he lingers lovingly over it, back-spinning with such minute precision that he isolates and reorders every phoneme in a technical tour de force that transcends its own virtuosity when it transmutes seamlessly into an equally chopped-up bebop drum solo. This short (38 minutes) but dense release pulls together an astonishing variety of source material and is consistently engaging and technically impressive, although many tracks revolve around comedic elements (like slightly surreal extracts from an interview with a broadcast sound-effects expert and dating how-tos) that may not stand up to repeated listening. In the same way that Eddie Van Halen is not a better guitarist than Jeff Beck simply because he plays faster, Kid Koala and his contemporaries might not strike everyone as an improvement on the innovations of Grandmaster Flash. --Bob Bannister
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5 stars for chops, minus one for all the noise July 15 2004
By B
Format:Audio CD
I like Kid Koala, but I would probably hate him if I was a DJ, in the same way that a marginally talented musician would hate a criminally gifted child prodigy. He did everything on this record by hand, i.e., no samplers or loops, which makes an additional testament to the incredible technical skill displayed in this album (which barely lasts longer than a sitcom). In an interview he said that this cd was his place to put all the stuff he couldn't use at parties, which is evidently a whole friggin lot of stuff. I guess you could sum this album up by noting three things: obscure vocal samples and such, feverish scratching and manual looping chops that make my non dj wrists hurt, and enough strong head bobbing beats to fill...something small. It has a good sense of humor and a fiercely unique sound which may grow thin with repeated listening, but the gimmick is welcome if you approach it wanting to be amazed by the unusual showoff stylings of one of the world's best djs. But if you want the usual fast rhythmic stuff over loud hip hop beats listen to Q-Bert.
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... Aug 26 2003
Format:Audio CD
After listening to this record the 3rd time, it dawned on me that every noise, every bustle, every tweet and buzz I hear in my head, is so perfectly organized into a grand orchestra and put on CD. The beat is solid, and the music seems to be composed with such abandon.
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For the geek in all of us July 25 2003
Format:Audio CD
Kid Koala, who is also a member of the band Bullfrog, is simply one of the most creative DJs spinning today. This is an esoteric little record, for those of us who can appreciate the nuances of the turntables. The record is a slew of inside jokes and innuendos. Regardless, it really is a fun listen for just about anyone, but especially geeks of all ilk.

But beware, this is bad background music. If you're looking for some DJ music that you can put on and ignore move on to something else, something by Amon Tobin perhaps, because the beats and sample on this record grab the attention and need to be listened to carefully to be appreciated.

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Most recent customer reviews
Too Abstract to be Enjoyable
I bought this CD because I loved Koala's work on Deltron 3030. His DJing skills impressed me over everything on that album and so I thought this DJ CD would be similar to the... Read more
Published on April 18 2003 by Ian Scottish
Too generic to be any good
Listening to Kid Koala's train wreck of a CD "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" made me long for mixmasters that know what they're doing like Dan the Automator. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2003 by J. C. Steuber
Just a different style
People like to compare Kid's style to other DJ's. I can'tunderstand this because are different styles. Read more
Published on Dec 31 2002 by Jairo Vendramini
A simple work, with a style untouched by any other artists.
Do you know what that was?

I think it was... uh ..a ..an insane man, pulling the hair out of a baboon's back.

No, that was a blender. Read more

Published on Nov 4 2002 by Nealo
Impressive music doesn't require serious content
I've got all of Kid Koala's releases - and about 1500 other albums in almost every genre. In the two years I've had this disc, I've given it more plan than most anything else. Read more
Published on April 23 2002 by East Bay Phil
I CAN'T BELIEVE NINJA TUNE RELEASED THIS ...
Now i have alot of respect for Ninja Tune, they provide me with excellent unknown fresh artists that free me from the monotony of chart music. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2002 by experimusicdotcom
NOW THATS A DJ...
Kid Koala from Montreal Canada has skillz that only other turntablists can only dream about...This debut ablum is refreshing & a VERY funny display of turntablism/music. Read more
Published on Oct 16 2001 by "usjoka"
Good DJing, but short on actual songs
Kid Koala definitely has the sense of humor and playfulness that we've all heard about. Pac-Man instructions, drivign tips, Winnie-the-Pooh, a man talking to houseplants, etc. Read more
Published on July 16 2001 by "littleoldme"
A DJ's DJ...not for people who aren't into DJ music
Kid Koala is one of the most expressive people I've ever heard on a turntable. He gets a phrase, a sound or a snippet and he's drawing that thing in directions you probably didn't... Read more
Published on Jun 16 2001 by Scott Woods
CarpTunSyn - Snapshot of a Master DJ
I had the pleasure of seeing Kid Koala perform many of the songs from this recording at a 2000 show in San Francisco. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2001 by Thomas A. Lewis
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