Having released three solo albums on Ninja Tune, Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ who has made a name for himself not only with his music, but also with his visual art. He has now taken that art one step further and is ready to release a graphic novel/soundtrack titled Space Cadet September 20th. Hit the jump for the tracklist + trailer about the project.
Space Cadet is a 132-page graphic novel drawn entirely on etchboards. It is accompanied by a “still picture score” of music composed and recorded by Kid Koala. To work out the accompanying live show and gallery exhibition, Koala took part in an artist residence at MASS MoCA (Massachussetts Museum Of Contemporary Art) in December 2010. The Space Cadet Headphone Concert and Gallery took shape, an immersive concept involve live visual-making, a pop-up planetarium and so much other stuff its perhaps best explained by heading to YouTube to watch the trailer
Tracklist
01. main title theme: open your book
02. goodbye: page 8
03. remembrance: page 10
04. window: page 25
05. today tomorrow: page 37
06. expedition: page 45
07. birthday: page 71
08. void: page 86
09. dawn: page 97
10. cardboard stars, seashells: page 100
11. speed of light: page 102
12. recyclotron: page 110
13. hope: page 115
14. return: page 125
15. connectivity: page 129