Last Thursday I went to a concert at a nightclub to see the amazing turntablist Kid Koala.  Unfortunately the doors opened at 10pm and Kid Koala only started spinning at midnight.  I stayed until about 1:30 or 2am.  He was amazing.  Somehow he managed to keep the floor pretty hyped and moving even though it was an amazingly complex set.  This DJ manages to play amazing beats for the dance floor, while still churning out some unbelievably skilled moves on 3 turntables.  I pretty much stood there the whole night watching in amazement.  If I understood more about turntablism I think I would have been even more awed.  A neat thing is in this day and age of Final Scratch (the age of digital vinyl scratching, where you don’t have to ever switch plates anymore, you can store your whole collection on a Mac and scratch virtually anything you want from the hard disk) Kid Koala still sticks with the old-school vinyl.  No samplers, no effects racks, just two (or three) turntables and a mixer.

I would liken this talent to John Mayer, who can totally throw down some mad licks effortlessly, and still make melodic music that the general public enjoys.  Except Kid Koala is on the very edge of new music, pushing the limits.  John Mayer’s music is still mad crazy, but he uses a mainstream instrument (electric guitar) with history-steeped tone (blues, etc).

So that night also set a trend that I can’t knock off.  I haven’t been able to really sleep earlier than 2am for the past 4 days.  I’m kind of tired, but my body doesn’t really want to hit the hay.  Although when my head hits the pillow, I’m totally out really quickly.  It’s just brutal when I realize that the rest of the world still runs on normal daylight time.

Tags: music, sleep

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