Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (album)

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Studio album by Kid Koala
Released	22 February 2000
Recorded	?
Genre	turntablism, Hip hop
Length	37:50
Label	Ninja Tune ZEN34 (LP) ZENCD034 (CD)
Producer	Kid Koala, except 6 and 13 by Bullfrog
Kid Koala chronology
Scratchcratchratchatch (1996) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000) Some of My Best Friends Are DJs (2003)

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the first album of turntablist Kid Koala.

The record was made by hand-cutting vinyl records onto an eight-track recorder without computer splicing or samplers. The album took Eric San 4 years to record, more than the 6 months he originally told Ninja Tunes it would take.^[1]

The album was issued with a comic book drawn by Eric San himself. It detailed a DJ captured by a corporation, shrunken down to 1/10 his original size, and placed in a box of fictional Disco -o- Flakes cereal. He breaks out of the box four years later and struggles to become a DJ. The CD is enhanced with a video game modeled on Asteroids called "Vinoids," in which you have to destroy radioactive records in a "sector" of outer space.

The track "Like Irregular Chickens" is a reference to fellow Ninja Tune artist Amon Tobin's track "Like Regular Chickens" on the album Permutation, which itself references the David Lynch film Eraserhead.

Track listing

1. "Strut Hear" (0:59)
2. "Nerdball" (1:43)
3. "Fender Bender" (3:54)
4. "Drunk Trumpet" (2:57)
5. "Roboshuffle" (2:40)
6. "Barhopper 1" (1:58)
7. "Music For Morning People" (3:47)
8. "Naptime" (1:34)
9. "A Night At The Nufonia" (3:53)
10. "Temple Of Gloom" (4:16)
11. "Scurvy" (4:16)
12. "Like Irregular Chickens" (1:55)
13. "Barhopper 2" (3:13)
14. "Roll Credits" (0:49)

References

1. "Classic album: Kid Koala on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" www.musicradar.com, accessed October 2, 2014