Album
12 Bit Blues
2012 · Electronic, Hip Hop
Rare pressing on Gatefold
12 Bit Blues is a Hip-Hop album by Kid Koala, originally released in 2012. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.
About
As a real, genuine kid, long before he became Kid Koala, Eric San wanted an E-mu SP-1200 sampler – the Ark of the Covenant of hip hop production, used by his idols and heroes and imbued with legendary, almost supernatural, audio powers by rap aficionados worldwide. Unfortunately, he worked out he would have to deliver around eight million newspapers to buy one. Now, having hit his thirtie, Eric finally has the machine he always craved. Of course, music production has largely moved on, so Eric began working out what he could do with it - a kind of reverse engineering back to his childhood self. A little mucking around and it came to him – the blues was always about stripping music back to its bare essential, which is exactly what the SP1200 doe, too. Over three days he cut up and reassembled the bed tracks for 12 Bit Blue. No sequencing software was used. Using the pads on the machine and a multitrack, Eric played each part of the tracks in real time, before finally returning and adding cuts over the top. .
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Tracklist
- 11 Bit Blues (10,000 miles)4:01
- 22 Bit Blues3:27
- 33 Bit Blues2:56
- 44 Bit Blues3:54
- 55 Bit Blues4:36
- 66 Bit Blues4:27
- 77 Bit Blues4:31
- 88 Bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY)4:10
- 99 Bit Blues2:16
- 1010 Bit Blues2:07
- 1111 Bit Blues3:14
- 12Denouement1:37
- 1325 Bit Blues (Bonus Track)4:16
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Boom Bap
- lo-fi
- laid-back
- groovy
Credits
The people behind it.
Production & Engineering
- Kid KoalaPRODUCER
- Kid KoalaSAMPLER [SP1200], TURNTABLES, ENGINEER [VINYLRECORDER], SYNTH [OP-1, MINIMOOG, EMULATORII, FOLKTEKBUG, VOSTOX, POCKET PIANO, VSS-30, MFB-522, OTOBISCUIT, PROPHET08, PROPHET2000, STUDIO440, OBERHEIMOBXA], ORGAN [VOX CONTINENTAL, FENDER CONTEMP], EFFECTS [BINSONDISCECHO], ARTWORK [FRONT/BACK COVER ARTWORK, JR HAND POWERED RECORD PLAYER ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS]
- Vid CousinsBASS [HOLLOWBODYBASS], SYNTH [PERSEPHONE, MINIMOOG, KORGCX3], DRUMS [ADDITIONAL], EFFECTS [SPACEECHO101], ENGINEER, MIXED BY
- Vid CousinsPRODUCER
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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