KOALA CENTRAL:now ready!!!!!!

the brand new record from koala is finished (soon to order)
tracklist:

1Intro
2Unpolluted Dreams (feat sarah budts)
3Shadowland (feat jean bosco safari)
4a hard rain in a blood staind water (feat ziggy)
5somewhere lost in time (feat sarah budts)
6Central skit (islasoul)
7Central (islasoul/Moustafa)
8Amber Satyr (islasoul/sarah budts)
9A plague of the mind (islasoul/nuff said/ocean aquanaut/ziggy)
10Easy reading (ziggy)
11Time f(eat jean bosco Safari/islasoul/ziggy)
12Black Heart( carlos Dyckmans/Sarah budts/laurens joly)


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new album and remix album (new)

KOALA is currently finishing their album central!
One last song is being made.(feat jean bosco safari)
koala central OUT:end of may!!!!!!


We are also working on a remix album.
feat remixes by:astroladies,lamont stigler,the zambezi hippos,dj elektron,rebounce,Monsieur Henri,Gin devo,dirk lepez,dj raphael,Esrah,Mr. clean,Turntable dubbers and many many others!!!!
this album will be released through the I-tunes record store by wab. in July.

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Ayo Techknowledgy...
Category: Blogging

Music, Books & Movies that influenced me whilst writing for ’CENTRAL’

1. Fugees - The Score

Yes, I’ve been carrying this timeless classic with me since age 12 (’96).
I will love it forever...can’t imagine me not listening to it anymore...
’Clef has this line .. Or Not   "but no don’t weep, wyclef’s in a state of sleep"... I always loved that line, I used to kinda sing that line over & over & over and now for Central I transformed it to "but no don’t weep, matthew’s in a state of sleep" (CREATIVE AIN’T IT??!!)...
And let me also tell you this..L-Boogie is one of the best to ever do it..

2. Zach De La Rocha (Rage Against The Machine)

I love his energy & delivery..he also has one of the most recognizable
voices ever. So there’s this one song ’Amber Satyr’ (title from a book by the way, you should look it up) where I’m trying to get my De La Rocha on &
one of the first versions we recorded actually captured that vibe quite well.
The final version became a dope song & Sarah (THEE SINGSTER) does some of that next-level-outer-space- singing on there.

3. James Baldwin - Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone

Baldwin is one of my favorite writers & I think I own almost all of his
books. One of those books is ’Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone’...
the main character is an actor ’Leo Proudhammer’who’s struggling with life
(like we all do) but in the end overcomes & then looks back & tells his story..The reason why I like it so much is because it’s reads like an autobiography. There’s also a line on ’Amber Satyr’ where I mention it "feel like Leo Proudhammer, loading my ammo / Life is a battle from the womb to the tomb/ and everything in between is either nightmare or dream"..

4. Tv On The Radio

Return To Cookie Mountain blew my brain to bits...they are Gods.

5. Slam

That movie starring Saul Williams - The prison yard scene where he suddenly starts rhyming/reciting a poem.. that sh*t is so intense, everytime I see it, afterwards I just pick up my pen and notebook & start writing.
Saul Williams is a great artist, if you haven’t checked out his last album..then damn it, check it out now @ http://www.niggytardust.com

6. Basquiat (the movie)

While I know the movie is inaccurate and more close to fiction than it is to what really happened..I can’t help but loving it (mainly because Jeffrey Wright is a GREAT actor)...plus I’ve got a major crush on Claire Forlani

7. Public Enemy

and if you don’t know..now you KNOW. When I got the music for the song ’Central’ I immediately started meditating on how to attack it..I was listening to alot of PE at the time.
The result is not to be ashamed of...I call it "my Public Enemy song".

8. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

that’s my bible...it is, it really is.

well, that’s it (for now)

Peace,

math (aka IslaSoul)

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Lights, Camera, Action
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

So the new Koala album is finished... It's called 'Central' .... I've heard about 85% of it ... it already sounds awesome ... I had tears in my eyes. I'm tellin' you ... when you are creating something, when you are part of a group of incredibly talented people (I humbly say so) ... and you see what you have created together with those people ... is The Most Beautifullest Thing (c) Keith Murray whilst listening I had butterflies, that nervous feeling you know... It's times like these that make you realize all the work you do, in the end..will be rewarded one way or another... I can't wait 'til people get to hear our new baby...

Mathieu

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KOALA finally new record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KOALA is about to release their new record on May 2008!!!!
and it thats not the big deal in March their planning a REMIX album exclusively for sale on the I-tunes!!!!

Feat Remixes by: Astroladies,Beatdrunx,Gusto,Lamont Stigler,Soi,Dj Raphael,Dolphin,Saphir
and many more!!!!

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new videoclip OVERLOADED(single) feat bastard Nation

VIDEOCLIP KOALA feat Bastard nation (soon online)

The videoclip from overloaded directed by anais dyckmans koala feat bastard nation is soon online!!!!!!!


by the way he debut cd of bastard Nation 'this tale is a shark'is finished and shall be released 9 january in Brussels
location:'the music village'.

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KOALA studiobrussel CD

Hi koala has been selected and is now on the fresh StudioBrussel CD'demopoll'

with the track overloaded

check(in dutch)

http://www.stubru.be/node/26897

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KOALA @ blogspot

Dear everyone who reads this;

We've created another place you can visit when you're

a) bored

b) very bored

c) extremely bored

or

d) a fan of our music 

So now you can also find us @  http://koalarecordingcentral.blogspot.com  where you can read EVERYTHING about the making of our new album "CENTRAL"     

Visiteth us and thou shalleth haveth a good time 'cause we'll be putting pictures, probably some videostuff & some soundcookies up there.

For the people who are living in Belgium, or are visiting Belgium this weekend (sunday):We're playing in Antwerp @ Rivierenhof (Deurne) ... sooooo everybody's welcome (and it's FREE) and we play from 7:50 'til 8:30 pm...

Hope to see some of you there

Peace

KOALA

Currently listening : Kind of Blue By Miles Davis Release date: 25 March, 1997

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review LIVE walvisfestival

Recensie walvisfestival KOALA

Hierbij zit de recensie van jullie optreden in Het Entrepot van zaterdag:

De tweede groep van de avond liet een verbluffende indruk op me na : Koala. Met een mix van triphop, wereldmuziek, downbeat en ook wat jazzy invloeden demonstreerde de band overtuigend hoezeer ze klaar zijn voor de héél grote podia. Dit was wereldklasse. Koala speelt met genres en dynamiek en doet dat ogenschijnlijk met zo'n gemak dat je je echt begint af te vragen hoe het komt dat deze band nog niet meer potten gebroken heeft. Onder het bonte gezelschap op het podium ook een Bruggeling: MC Islasoul. We herkenden hem meteen aan die 'oversizede bol kroeshaar', waarover we enkele maanden geleden nogal spotterig deden, in combinatie met zijn hiphopact op Tien Jaar Methafora welteverstaan. (zie hier)

Nadat we hem zaterdagavond bezig zagen aan de zijde van het kokette zangeresje Sarah, nemen we dat volledig terug. De Brugse rapper straalde zoveel charisma uit dat je geen moment twijfelde aan z'n act. Sarah had dan weer de looks, maar vooral een stem waarmee ze het ongetwijfeld nog héél ver zal schoppen. Hoge krachtige noten, maar ook Oosterse klaagzangen, sensueel gekreun, zwoel geneurie en zelfs de pedante Monroe-stijl: ze goochelde het allemaal uit de stembanden. Het frontkoppel Sarah en Islasoul maakte af en toe plaats voor gasten en hoewel die evenzeer fantastisch waren, vrees ik dat die formule niet constructief is voor Koala. Sarah en Islasoul zijn frontpeople die hun publiek kunnen inpakken en dan zie je ze graag zo veel en zo lang mogelijk bezig, zonder onderbrekingen. Ze hadden mij alvast volledig, totaal, onvoorwaardelijk ingepakt.


Tot de volgende!

Karel -Zorkel


uit:
http://www.moonartgallery.be/news.php?readmore=2891

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KOALA *newsflash*

So here we are yet again with news straight out the dungeons of the crew who introduced you to "gravity" (incase you were getting tooo high off the music)

We've been busy with:

RECORDING NEW MATERIAL FOR THE BRAND NEW RECORD TENTATIVELY TITLED -CENTRAL-  (It's supposed to hit planet earth in January 2008)

RECORDING MUSIC VIDEOS!!! "Virus" & "Overloaded" are the lucky two...and if you haven't yet..the other two (Dead End & Grim City) are still viewable on this here space or a youtube near you..

Speaking of OVERLOADED, that baby of ours is going to be featured on a cd from one of our last good radiostations "Studio Brussel" ('cause we won the cotdamn contest and were chosen out of trillions & billions others)...happy happy Joi Joi (pun intended).

Our -other- website http://www.koalasounds.net is still alive & kicking too, check it out, bumrush our messageboard, check out whatever we throw on there & keep coming back if you like it.

We also have some upcoming gigs, for now they're mostly in Antwerp but we'll be sure to play every place this country has to offer in the near future.

Salutations,

KOALA

Currently listening : Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks) By TV on the Radio Release date: 12 September, 2006

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