Dj Koze - Seeing Aliens E.P.

Pampa

£13.50

Format: EXCL12"L
Catalogue No.: PAMPA030
Release Date: 9th July 2021 (back in)
Genre: Deep House

Repress: 13 Oct 2023

* 2023 Repress

* DJ Koze exists both above and beyond club culture as we know it - his albums and remixes flying free from genre and trend - and symbio[cally woven into its heart. Yes, he always abstracts and weirds out the principles of house, techno, hip hop, pop, psychedelia, exo[ca and so forth, but he does that because he understands them. And when it comes to club-demolishing tracks, he understands those principles as well as just about anybody on earth.

Thus he could create an enduring club tune like 2015's "XTC" that is strange, contempla[ve, even disturbing, bore ligle rela[on to anything around at the [me, yet s[ll got bodies moving and swea[ng beger than way more obvious techno bangers. And thus the Knock Knock album, which melts a million genres and none into one another, can comfortably include "Seeing Aliens".

"Seeing Aliens" unques[onably is a banger, its bass riff snaking around your body like a python, its high-drama strings, pianos and outbursts of noise designed for maximum crowd pressure release. But, again, it sounds like nothing else, and its dynamics and twists unfold over eight and a half minutes in ways that will mess with your head every [me no mager how many [mes you hear it.

The exclusive b-side track, "Nein König Nein" ("No King No"!), meanwhile, is slightly gentler on the face of it: it's less about sonic pressure, more about hip-shaking syncopa[on. But it too tells strange fairytales in its peculiar and braintweaking accumula[on of detail, and though you'll hear archetypal sounds from the heart of house and disco in it, every last one of them becomes new and otherworldly

* Tracklist:
A. Seeing Aliens (Extended Breakthrough Version)
B. Nein König Nein