Music / electronica

12 bit blues


Description


Summary: 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.

Reviews (2)


AllMusic

2012

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Rick Anderson

2012

"Despite the frequent incursion of virtuosic turntablist flourishes, there are no breakbeats and there is little that can reasonably be called "funky"; the voices and guitar sounds are archetypal, but in many cases they are also radically deconstructed. This is the kind of album that Skip McDonald might make if he were a DJ rather than a guitarist. It's intriguing and at times vaguely unsettling".


BBC music

d. 27. May 2012

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Stevie Chick

d. 27. May 2012

"Koala's kept his more gonzo vinyl in the box this time round, lifting only from scratchy old blues records, isolating the crying guitar breaks, droll piano lines, knowing horn blurts and soulful wails and croaks and reassembling them as new entries in the blues canon. Armed with an SP-1200 - the primitive sampler that powered 80s hip hop - Koala "plays" these samples on the drum-pads, lending his bluesy lopes an agreeably ramshackle groove".