Kid Koala: Sound as a Narrative Tool in Space Cadet

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Eric Yick Keung San, artistically known as Kid Koala, is one of the most unique artists emerging from the electronic and alternative music scene of recent decades. Born in Vancouver in 1974, from parents from Hong Kong, he grew up listening to jazz and studying classical piano before discovering rock and hip hop during his adolescence. Since the mid-1990s he began to stand out as a DJ of scratch, developing an experimental style that transformed…