Knock knock

"The eccentric producer uses samples and collaborations to brilliantly exploit the spaces between deep house, trip-hop and R&B on an appealingly odd album ... It's a collection of music so eclectic that it could easily sound scattered and messy - the distance between the trebly, lo-fi strum of José González collaboration Music on My Teeth and the warped deep house and naive, untutored vocals of Planet Hase is pretty huge - but it holds together, largely as a result of Koze's evident interest in melody".

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"Best New Music" - "Across a handful of albums, not to mention many dozens of remixes and a few full-length DJ mixes, he combines the crunchy propulsion of French touch, the liquid warmth of '70s soul, the precise structure of Kompakt-style minimal techno, the head-nodding funk of boom-bap, and the nameless desire of dream pop. The thread through it all is a very specific emotional state: Sifting through his library of samples and pieces of original music, he finds the moments that express wistful longing, burrows into them, and then blows it all up to color-saturated widescreen".

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"Like Amygdala, Knock Knock features an abundance of guest vocalists and a wide selection of styles, ranging from lovesick ballads to hypnotic floor-fillers. This time out, he manages to push his sample manipulations further over the edge than before, with shredded, Mouse on Mars-like vocal mutations popping up all over the place, even on some of the album's most dramatic songs, lending to a very strange dynamic ... an absurdly emotional, innovative album".

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"Man behøver ikke holde af elektronisk musik for at nyde det nye album fra den tyske elektroniske nomade DJ Koze, der af det tyske elektroniske medie Resident Advisor bliver kaldt den mærkeligste mand i elektronisk musik ... 'Knock knock' (...) er fyldt med varme beats og produktioner. I glimt minder hans lyd om Daft Punk i 90'erne, sært funket uden at insistere for meget på det, og han har inviteret et kulørt entourage med ind i stemningen. Fra Speech fra hiphopgruppen Arrested Devlopment til Rosé Gonzales og Roísín Murphy. Den grundlæggende stemning er varm, afslappet og søgende uden at falde lige lukt ned i glat loungemusik. Især 'Colors of Autumn' og 'Illumination' er skønne overskudsnumre, der viser, at DJ Koze er en oplagt og utilsigtet popproducer. Det klæder DJ Koze at kaste sig ud i elektronisk popmusik med hans egne små særpræg, der spjætter uforudsigeligt i melodierne".

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