DJ Koze and effects

As a preamble, a warning is necessary. This "DJ" placed before the artist's name can be seriously misleading. Whether you're looking for material to spin the towels on the evening of July 14th or to turn your head by mistaking your room for a mock dance floor, you risk being very sorry when listening to Stefan Kozalla's new album. Even if he also handles the turntables with talent, we will be able to realize it at the next Parisian festival We Love Green , this German especially likes to leave this role of mood-setter, to take side roads when it comes to fomenting over time (more than an hour here) his own compositions. Without a doubt, with him, the creation of an "album", considered in a homogeneous globality takes on its full meaning. The approach is entirely personal but Koze is not an egoist and he certainly seeks to take us on his sumptuous trip.

The title Music Can Hear Us expresses well the certain confusion caused by these strange and delicious titles where the producer plays with sounds, guests, languages, in an explosion of electronic psychedelia. With as a beautiful example this beautifully spiritual ode The Universe in a Nutshell (the universe in short). Listening to it, it is quite possible for a mind with open chakras to climb very high thanks to these almost eight minutes where a sort of mantra plays in a loop while instruments of indeterminate origins compose a sumptuous melodic saraband. A manifesto of Pure Love demonstrated later in the scintillating title of the same name which once again sees Damon Albarn shine among electronic artists, after his recent featuring with Etienne de Crécy . Adept of a joyful musical Esperanto, this fifty-year-old also succeeds on several occasions in the feat of making the language of Goethe sexy. Better yet, with "Wie schön du bist," he offers us an irresistible, unhinged pop ballad with the allure of a mini-hit. Finally, the heir to the exhausted "99 Luftballons" and "Der Komissar"?

Along with his comrades Carsten Meyer and Daniel Sommer, Koze has already won over audiences with a necessarily crazy electronic pop manifesto.

The subtle electronic compositions of this Swedish producer open the doors to a new ecstatic world.

When it comes to playing spoilsport, you can always count on Nicolas Jaar and his accomplice Dave Harrington.