House party

Innovative oddball DJ Koze has a new album, and everyone’s invited

When is a vocal from Róisín Murphy not welcome? Never, that’s when. And so firmly does Stefan Kozalla, aka DJ Koze, concur that he’s got her doing the honours twice on his new album, Knock Knock. There she is on the hypnotic “Illumination”, and again on the seductive and mysterious “Scratch That”, though she’s in good company: Kozalla’s other vocalists include Speech from Arrested Development and Lambchop’s

Kurt Wagner. But even when his collaborators are unwitting, Kozalla’s remixes are a phenomenon — creating sounds to which Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, sampled on “Bonfire”, would approve.

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Knock Knock (Pampa Records) is released on 4 May