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kid koala - 12 bit blues - ninja tune - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: New Jazz / Headz

1. 1 Bit Blues (10,000 miles)
2. 2 Bit Blues
3. 3 Bit Blues
4. 4 Bit Blues
5. 5 Bit Blues
6. 6 Bit Blues
7. 7 Bit Blues
8. 8 Bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY)
9. 9 Bit Blues
10. 10 Bit Blues
11. 11 Bit Blues
12. Denouement

Over three days he cut up and reassembled the bed tracks for 12 Bit Blues. No sequencing software was used. Using the pads on the machine and a multitrack, Kid Koala played each part of the tracks in real time, before finally returning and adding cuts over the top.

The result is a really raw, immediate and strangely beautiful album, much like the music it draws on for its inspiration. In attempting to outplay and out-think the technology he is working with he revives the unworldly oddness of blues music before it became a staple of beer adverts and the jam-fantasies of middle aged marketing executives.