DJ Koze Shares New Single “Illumination” feat. Róisín Murphy
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DJ Koze returns with his second single from knock knock, his forthcoming album on Pampa Records. “Illumination” follows the previously released “Seeing Aliens” and is the first knock knock track Koze has shared featuring vocals. The ever-unique Róisín Murphy becomes a cyborg funk diva on “Illumination.” “Working on a song together with Roísín is even better than not working at all,” says Koze. Listen below.
Listen to DJ Koze’s “Illumination” feat. Róisín Murphy:
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Like all DJ Koze records, knock knock exists outside of trend and influence. In fact, knock knock is a step further beyond: absolutely every single thing here, from grooves to voices to handclaps, is otherworldly and unique. Which is not to say it is utter alien abstraction. There is still disco, there is still soul, there is still techno, there is still hip hop, there is still psychedelia – there are even wafts of easy listening, lost crackly thrift store record memories and indie rock – but though it may sound familiar, it never does what your brain thinks it’s going to do.And that’s what is crucial here. Koze is a world-maker. You don’t get to choose how you hear his music – you enter his world or you don’t, that’s it. And that’s why individual influences, whether it’s the trippy German techno that’s always rippled through his albums or the beat-scene abstract hip hop that he incorporated into his DJ-Kicks mix in 2015, are all but irrelevant. Though he’d never compare himself to anyone else, Koze only makes sense in the way that other world-builders do, from Bowie to Sun Ra, Outkast to Kate Bush. And Knock Knock is far and away his greatest statement of that. It’s an album that came together slowly and steadily, his working processes arcane and mysterious in their steady accumulation of sound and inspiration. It’s so complete and bursting with detail and consistency from every microsecond that you’d swear it was meticulously planned (but there was no master plan) to create a definitive artifact: the record itself decided when it was ready. And now it is ready, the most perfectly constructed portal into that other world, you had better be ready too!
Listen:
“Illumination” feat. Róisín Murphy – https://soundcloud.com/
“Seeing Aliens” – https://soundcloud.com/
“Illumination” feat. Róisín Murphy – https://soundcloud.com/
“Seeing Aliens” – https://soundcloud.com/
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