Ada - Faith (Koze's Grungerwomen Instrumental Remix)

Sometimes I can go 10, 20 hours of tune-hunting without finding anything I even vaguely like.  Today I've loved 3 tracks in a row.

This is outstanding - slightly uncomfortable, darkly warm with a variety of clicks, high pitched noises and a deep bassline to meld it together - it does sound like a Grungerwoman.  Whatever that is.

DJ Koze - XTC

This track is everywhere.  A spoken-word prophesy about the drug, ecstasy.

Matthew Herbert – It’s Only (DJ Koze Remix)

With such invention as both producer and remixer you can imagine what unique beauty may be conjured up but this is miles better.  Easily my best discovery of 2013, a slightly-broken beat feel with warm sweeping synths, charming vocals and the odd bit of feedback.  Truly amazing.

The only downside is that I run out of superlatives sometimes.

DJ Koze - Abudinga

A beast of a track.  I am a huge fan of DJ Koze, I love the unpredictability of his music, straddling somewhere between deep house, minimal and tech-house, this is quite an emotive piece of music, one I think dolphins would appreciate and much as dancers, and takes that unexpected twist which ensures it is featured on my blog.

Mathias Kaden - Kawaba (Dj Koze's Kosi-san Remix)

I’m a really big fan of DJ Koze’s work, it is very subtle, quiet and minimal with unexpected sounds here and there.  Lovely.

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Makossa & Megablast - Soy Como Soy (DJ Koze No Voy A Cambiar Repaso)

The original is a very good track in itself but Koze can be quite the magician on the remix and he takes this a whole level further, giving it a whole extra edge and doubling the length to just short of 13 minutes.  Quite superb.

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Efdemin - There Will Be Singing (DJ Koze Remix)

Heard this on a couple of DJ sets from Tiefschwarz and Art Department, loved it but no idea what it was for weeks and then I heard Sven play it at fabric and it just sounded amazing – 3 weeks later finally worked out what it is, it has been driving me crazy!  Amazing tune, with this absolutely devastating rolling bassline, some minimal clicks and beats and breaks down suddenly into a really good quote from some film “what is it about art anyway that we give it so much importance…” – this is just absolutely fantastic.  If only I could afford a trip to Ibiza to hear it in Ibiza.