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“A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.” — Eric San

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“A wombat. Is that a marsupial? That'd be cool.” — Eric San

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“And what I realized was, despite competition, it was just the forum where most of these kids could get some exposure.” — Eric San

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“But we're just super nerdy too. Just geeks sometimes. We don't get enough sunlight. We spend too much time isolated in small rooms with machines. Not enough vitamin C. Turntable scurvy, carpal tunnel syndrome.” — Eric San

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“Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.” — Eric San

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“Did you know the koalas are dying of syphillus? They're quite, uh, active. They sort of trade things, it's a real problem. They sleep a lot. Like 20 hours a day. People volunteer that information to me all the time.” — Eric San

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“Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.” — Eric San

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“Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.” — Eric San

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“Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.” — Eric San

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“I dig for those records that people are embarrassed to have, then make records documenting that they exist. Anthropologically speaking, it's kind of interesting, like audio-voyeurism.” — Eric San

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“I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?” — Eric San

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“I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.” — Eric San

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“I remember my first few battles where I went out and didn't know anyone and it was just everyone hanging around backstage and glaring at each other. It was this weird psych-out thing that I didn't necessarily enjoy.” — Eric San

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“I think that all people deserve attention and all people deserve respect as long as they're not doing something evil.” — Eric San

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“I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved.” — Eric San

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“I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.” — Eric San

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“I'm actually considered very elder in the Montreal DJ scene, like an old school cat.” — Eric San

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“I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.” — Eric San

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“If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.” — Eric San

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“If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.” — Eric San

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“It also is a lot of fun - provided you are one of those people who has fun.” — Eric San

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“It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.” — Eric San

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“It's a very high-stress and very high-pressure situation. I also think that the reason why competition helps it grow is because kids are always thinking about that same 5 minute routine.” — Eric San

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“It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.” — Eric San

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“It's just gonna be a fun night out.” — Eric San

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“It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited.” — Eric San

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“Its a vaudeville-type show. So there's seats for the audience to sit back and enjoy. This way they won't try and dance.” — Eric San

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“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.” — Eric San

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“No matter what the instrument, it's always about trying to interject your own message and concept into the music.” — Eric San

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“Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.” — Eric San

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“Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.” — Eric San

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“Somehow when I do Kid Koala records, it's really more about having some sort of narrative or some little story wheel around; not necessarily about writing pop songs or catchy dance beats or anything like that. It's about having some "audio journey" happen.” — Eric San

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“The challenge within the design of turntable music is to place your spirit within the pre-recorded sounds. Is there a way to cut up, bend, scratch and alter these sounds to make them come from me? Can you do it expressively, emotively? These are the questions I address when putting this form of music together.” — Eric San

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“There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.” — Eric San

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“We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.” — Eric San

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“When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.” — Eric San

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“When I was a kid, all my 7-inchers had books and pictures to go with them. So I thought it'd be fun to keep that tradition going.” — Eric San

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“When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.” — Eric San

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“When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.” — Eric San

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“You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.” — Eric San

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