In electronic music, a “comedown album” is mellow, mid-tempo, made for cushioning the post-rave crash. But there’s a kind of comedown LP that feels like a retreat from an artist’s previous work, and the newest release by the beloved Frankfurt dance producer DJ Koze presents us with both. Music Can …
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Dinner with DJ Koze is delightful. He shows me to a Thai restaurant in central Hamburg, down some steps and into a curtained room bubbling with atmosphere and charm. He studies the menu as though searching for secret meanings, then orders the pho, which is what he always gets. Then …
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