Eric San isn’t much of a kid anymore, but he’s definitely still a whiz — one of the most playfully expressive (and jaw-droppingly talented) turntablists out there, and an impishly clever musical and visual humorist to boot. For 12 Bit Blues (Ninja Tune), his first proper full-length in six years, the perennially sweet-natured Montrealer cobbled countless crackly moans, wails, harmonica peals and blue-note piano licks into a dozen slices of (literally) warped, shambling hip-hop blues, folding woe into whimsy and back again. It’s quite a feat, but the accompanying “Vinyl Vaudeville” stage show should offer more than just a technical scratchmaster nerd-out: Besides the koala-suited Kid recreating his tracks on three turntables and a pair of classic/archaic 1987-vintage SP-1200 samplers, we’ve been promised puppets, dancing girls, comedy, parlor games, “almost life-size” robots and a giant, functional, cardboard gramophone.
Fri., Nov. 23, 10 p.m., $15, with Adira Amram and the Experience, Underground Arts at the Wolf Building, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.
