Kid Koala shares new single “Five Spot Stomp”

Photo Credit: Corinne Merrell

Vancouver scratch DJ, Kid Koala, has released a new single, “Five Spot Stomp.” The track will be featured on the upcoming Floor Kids Original Video Game Soundtrack, set for release on April 27. The project includes 42 original hip hop tracks from the Nintendo Switch video game, Floor Kids. You can listen to the song on Kid Koala’s SoundCloud page.

About “Five Spot Stomp,” Kid Koala says:

Five Spot Stomp’ is a track from a location called The Corner in the video game. JonJon showed me a concept sketch he had done of this location, complete with a crowd of kids standing around cheering on the battle. My goal was to make a track that would fit the visuals he had created. I kept the rhythm target hits relatively simple since it’s still in the early part (level 2) of the game. Tone-wise, it was fun to make a track that nodded to the beats I grew up listening to when I was in high school, the ones built around a lost loop of an old jazz club jam.  I played some upright bass and drums and recorded them with an old RCA ribbon microphone.  I then re-sampled all the layers into this very strange Vestax 10 bit sampler to get that crunchy sound and added a few scratches here and there. Those are my daughters doing the countdowns in the track. We had a lot of fun jumpin’ around in the studio that day!

Fans of Kid Koala and Floor Kids can catch the DJ on the Vinyl Vaudeville: Floor Kids Edition tour this spring through North America.

Check out Kid Koala’s tour dates:
4/26: Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
4/27: Toronto, ON @ Mod Club Theatre
4/28: Detroit, MI @ El Club
4/29: Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
4/30: Minneapolis, MN @ The Cedar Cultural Center
5/3: Seattle, WA @ Neumos
5/4: Vancouver, BC @ Venue
5/5: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
5/7: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
5/8: Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
5/10: Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
5/12: Austin, TX @ 3TEN ACL
5/13: Dallas, TX @ AT&T Performing Arts Center
5/15: Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
5/16: Washington, DC @ Union Stage
5/17: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
5/18: Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Hall
5/19: Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

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