dj koze - kosi comes around

unfortunately i haven't heard all of this yet, but the remix of 'strange behavior' by blagger is a good 'un.

I kind of wish this was mixed but it is really good. Also missing is his fantastic remix of Ada that's starts off with a Jay-Z sample

You mean "Eva"? That's on the forthcoming Ada Mixtape #1 comp on Kompakt.

Yep, that's the one. The mixtape looks cool but is she ever gonna get around to putting out a follow-up to Blondie?

I've been wondering the same about Koze--as Koze, of course. Is it horrible of me to have not really paid any attention to International Pony?

No, that recent IP album wasn't as good as it should have been.

I have some basic idea of the IP style but haven't dug in enough--I think I've been afraid it wouldn't measure up to the Koze stuff. But then I don't think any dance producer has measured up to Koze's stuff for, oh, half a decade now.

any techno producer, anyway

I think International Pony would be better if they simply wrote more songs, and relied less on musical sketches as filler. That said, I still love all of Pony's albums. And the doublepack with Pepe Bradock remixes of "Bubble in the Bottle" is great as well.

Do you have "All the Time"? It's excellent.

I think I'll second Sherburne's take. And i think the Sweet Madness's tracklisting (hello, "Solid Gold", hello "Bubble in the Bottle", hello the "Royal Pennekaums", hello party people...) shows that IP also concur.

Maybe checkout fellow IP member Erobique's latest 12" - Endorphin Machine - if you want to investigate the current IP sound without tainting Koze's quality control reputation.

Mango Cookie!!!

I just noticed that the track has another six minutes to play out and got really excited.

mrs bojangles / dr. fuck... anyone heard it? i want to hear it.

"Mrs. Bojangels/Dr. Fuck" is really really good.

mrs bojangels is fun, very immersive

http://images.contactmusic.com/images/press/dj-koze-amygdala-album-cover-press.jpg

is pretty awesome

I do like it a lot but it does sound enough like (the more recent parts of) Reinterpretations to seem to suffer slightly in comparison. Still, nobody sounds like koze.

Yeah, this is great. Really glad that he dips into 'Smorning' (probably his most underrated tune IMO! IMO!) territory on 'Das Wort'.

how'd he get away with the Marvin sample anyway?

as much as he's a techno hero etc, his sense of pop is the best thing about him. unique.

i'm listening on npr but which track is the one with the big brass breakdown. incredible.

I don't think that's a sample. Great album though.

The track with Ada, as lovely as it is, is a bit of a missed opportunity...they were two of the biggest reasons (along with Michael Mayer) for getting into house/techno as a teenager. I guess I was hoping for more than a Kings of Convenience cover.

Still, been playing the album on a loop all day. So good.

Pretty sure he samples Marvin thrice actually. There's the obvious "We are all sensitive people" bit, then it sounds like he's cutting up the 'woahs' from "What's The Matter With You Baby" on "Don't Lose Your Mind", and i think that distorted vocal at the start of "Ich Schreib Der En Buch" might be him too

the bass on "magical boy" is really sublime

His sampling aesthetic feels v different to pretty much anyone else in dance music. How he mashes sounds and motifs together. It's like ideas colliding into one another somewhere in the lower intestines of the world.

This feels like an Avalanches album done by Koze

The 'sensitive people' part sounds re-sung to me, not like a sample. Could be wrong though.

it's a damn good impression if so

yeah, pretty sure its not a sample

digging this album, not a fan of m. dear's vocals, though.

yeah otm, liking this but the vocals on that song are horrific

Not a fan of Matthew Dear in general so am braced for that one in advance. Is this out yet?

out next week, streaming at http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174333356/first-listen-dj-koze-amygdala

Yeah I think using Dear twice is just perverse really.

ah he's not that bad. more dull than irritating imo.

he's dull on one of them but actively horrifying on the other

Call me strange but isn't the whole idea of DJ Koze using skew-whiff/unexpected/'whatever the hell he feels like' approaches very him? Seems like you're reacting not to a bug but a feature.

I'm always more irritated the second time but I'm not yet sure if that's because it's so much worse or it's just like, "wait, what, again?" Possibly a bit of both.

xpost Ned you're correct but cannot one distinguish between good and bad variants of that.

Also it's not like Dear sounds particularly weird.

Or rather he sounds "weird" in exactly the way you'd expect if you'd heard any of his recent albums.

i can't remember being horrified, or the vocals really standing out either way. i'll take a closer listen next time.

i ordered new speakers recently, really can't wait to blast this through them.

xpost the lead single of the last album was good imo

I think that what lifts Reinterpretations above this slightly is (a) the array of different voices and (b) the fact that Kozalla respects them less.

This is still great though.

reincarnations?

Yeah sorry that.

Ned you're correct but cannot one distinguish between good and bad variants of that.

More than fair! I dunno, I didn't mind either appearance, just seemed to be part of the whole collage without skipping a beat.

bit disappointed with this so far, gave it a couple of listens yesterday, really struggling with the vocals :-/ it's way more contemplative/indie/magnolia/ikea lifestyle techno than i was expecting. missing the dark/surreal/comedy/sweatysex side of his sound.

haven't got a feel for the second half yet tho, maybe there's more of that there.

yeah, listening again, def enjoying the latter half of this album more. after the one with pizzicato strings/marimba/moody pads/deep house chords starts things get better. being a bit of a bummer here, 'kosi comes around' is one of my favourite records, had super high hopes/expectations for this.

Koze did a mix for Fader http://www.thefader.com/2013/03/21/fader-mix-dj-koze/

the R Kelly edit! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!