Love this mix. Exactly none of the vocals bother me.
Also, last week I learned his name is pronounced "kot-zuh" and it means "vomit" in German. Also, ppl say that he is an actual crazy person irl and they're worried about him.
― davey, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
The stretch from the Session Victim track to the end is perfect, the rest is just really enjoyable despite itself.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
this "mix" would be much better without all the dicking around. Impeccable selections of course.
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
actually I take it back, this 2 Bears track is horrible
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol 1 is mostly good, a few too many self-indulgent moments of whimsy, but generally reminding me that it's my favourite contemporary dance music label.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
yousendit/slsk???― marc q, Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:16 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Koze's remix of "Operator" is one of the top tracks from 2016 IMO
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Such a good remixer
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18789-michael-mayer-joe-goddard-for-you-dj-koze-mbira-remix/
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
New track from new EP is a jam
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 26 January 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link
wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE63vMzb3UE
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
haha we both just posted. i posted in roisin, but yeah super pumped for the koze record
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
there's a phillip sherburne feature on koze - i think it's in pitchfork? - that's really good.
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
yeah, I read the thing in Pitchfork a few days ago and it's excellent. really looking forward to the new album.
https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/72-hours-in-paradise-with-dj-koze-electronic-musics-trickster-genius/
― fffv, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
"brutalga square" still rattles and stomps like a mfer
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
good feature indeed
― niels, Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
i really fancy him.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
One of the best producers in the game
His Herbert remix with Dani siciliano smokes
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
I need a little light here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
Juno record shop needs to stock the new LP A$AP so I can complete my order
― davey, Friday, 4 May 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
Am just on my second listen of Knock Knock. It's lush.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 May 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
Haven't heard it yet but I am going to just buy the thing because I know it is going to be super good
― davey, Friday, 4 May 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
It's sprawling and rather uplifting/'optimistic'!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 May 2018 09:59 (six years ago) link
this is so so good. weird & wonderful
early favs are bonfire, pickup and planet hase (mano le tough collab)
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
It’s out :)
― Dyslexicon (Ross), Sunday, 6 May 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Very weird n wonderful
it reminds me of ... radiohead?
in a good way.
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 7 May 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
ok maybe that's just a few tracks (the kurt wagner one especially)
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 7 May 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Some mash of Herbert and matmos
I’m not convinced by all of it but Lord Knows does bring it in spades
― Dyslexicon (Ross), Monday, 7 May 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
there's sections of this that feel a better version of what the avalanches seemed to be going for on wildflower
― ufo, Monday, 7 May 2018 08:43 (six years ago) link
I think he needs to focus a little bit more but he’s got a really good ear for arrangements and he’s great at bending and mixing genres. I love his work, but again, I feel he spends too much time setting moods and textures and not enough actually sending his ideas somewhere more interesting. He’s close enough to being one of the most brilliant producers of the past 10+ years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 May 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
That said I think I’m liking the new album even better than amygdala and that’s one of my favorite albums of this decade.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 May 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link
I think he needs to focus a little bit more
― dorsalstop, Monday, 7 May 2018 09:49 (six years ago) link
That’s probably true
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 May 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
Koze rocking filter house vibes in 2018 turns out to be just what I want on a hot may bank holiday
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 7 May 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
Another parallel is dark night of the soul
― Dyslexicon (Ross), Monday, 7 May 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Kurt Wagner sounds like a mechanical Peter Gabriel here
― Dyslexicon (Ross), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
― Dyslexicon (Ross), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Sorry that wasn’t worth the double post
new album sounds incredible on first listen. personally love the lack-of-focus, it made that first listen a lot more unpredictable. highlight for me so far is the fluttering-soul of "Baby (How Much I LFO You)," but i need to listen again in full cause there was a lot more i loved, but i wasn't paying attention to song titles.
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 May 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
koze + roisin did a two hour show on nts last friday:
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/dj-koze-roisin-murphy-4th-may-2018
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
I’ve been enjoying this. I especially love the frequent key and tempo changes in his recent work. I also love albums that are mixed like a mixtape regardless of whether they were mixed on a console. It reminds me of Kenny Dixon Jr. or Matthew Herbert.
Is anything from this getting club play?
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
Some of the vocals on this are p awful
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Pick Up can definitely be worked into a house mix.
Listening to it today it feels like an updated albeit lesser version of Daft Punk’s one more time. The groove is very similar in both, same sort of bongo percussion loop before the kick enters... based around two chords which I think are even Fmaj and Cmaj in both. Is anyone else hearing it?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
I’ve been spinning this nonstop to get to the bottom of how I feel about it. Music of my teeth is pretty corny Disney shit. Scratch that sounds like erykah badu and is dope. Lots to like in the production including some gnarly mangled cat synths but on a song like “this is my rock” the song isn’t compelling to me until the outro so sometimes I think that’s confusing - cuz them im ambivalent.
Pretty funny that koze reps himself on Jesus
― perpetual motion machine (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
One other production tic I like is how in Jesus the vocal goes from harsh and robotic to beautiful in seconds
― perpetual motion machine (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
Ah yes “scratch that” does sound like Badu! One of the highlights for me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Hadn't read anything about this so was not expecting the sample of The Gist's "Love At First Sight"; as startling as when I first heard Pantha du Prince's "Circle Glider".
― etc, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Is the horn line that comes in on "Muddy Funster" at 3:20 playing the Police's "Walking on the Moon"?
― with hidden noise, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
Somebody’s gotta get Bjork in contact with DJ koze. Opener and closer are almost Vulnicura Esque. Nice to hear the reprisal of the sample from I haven’t been everywhere on colors of autumn
― Roswell (Ross), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
'pick up' seems destined for many a sunrise set in ibiza this summer
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link