haha..."kaltes klares wasser" that´s realy one from back in the days.

Kind of surprising this comes out on Get Physical instead of, say, Kompakt.

dang. looking forward. anyone hear this yet?

Ben Watt - Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Rmx)

any single track in this mix is solid gold .) love all his productions in any aspects...

would love to see new album from mr. Kozalla

Koze is the man. really looking forward to this.

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dang. looking forward. anyone hear this yet?

Ben Watt - Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Rmx)

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No but i'm gonna check it out now. Love the original.

really amped for this one, despite that i've heard half the tracks on there. his remix of 'elementary lover' is so so fantastic.

can this man do wrong? i'm starting to think no.

Just listening to this now, it's wicked, hadn't heard much Koze before... that remix of Sascha Funke is very nice

Yeah, to my ear he really is the best producer/remixer around. Obviously it's still early but this is my favorite album so far this year. So many great moments, so many surprises, so much pure enjoyment transmitted.

the Malaria! vs Chicks on Speed... speechless

Oooo. Need to jump on this.

Great compilation or greatest compilation?

huhuhuhu

blagger rmx is so dope on the floor (as all tracks are amazing)
man am I happy to play before this dude 22nd may
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I can't figure out if it's a DJ mix or a compilation. When you look on beatport it doesn't show as a dj mix, but when you listen to the intro and the second track it sounds like it should be a dj mix

fucking brilliant

got it about 2 weeks back... it's cool, i just LOVE Heiko Voss - Think About You (DJ Koze Remix)

Clinical: It's a compilation, not a DJ mix.

Am I the only one who finds that record cover of Koze in Indian face (you know, like black face?) offensive? I used to like his stuff, but of all things to put on the cover of his remix collection, why this racist shit?

I mean I'm sure Koze didn't even think about it, and he's probably not racist himself, but, as any ethnically sensitive American will tell you, not thinking about it doesn't excuse it as being racist.

Ummm no i don't find it offensive at all because it is not racist. Isn't the image simply supposed to support the title 'Reincarnations'? As in Indians/Hindus believe in reincarnation and Koze has made 'reincarnations' (remixes) of the original tracks.

I don't understand where the racism lies?

Are you serious? Koze is a white guy dressed in the picture as an Indian stereotype.

I haven't seen the art up close but it looks to me like they Photoshopped him into a pre-existing photo; they could have done the same with a Jesus picture or Buddha or whatever.

Hmmm...did you find Robert Downey Jr's performance in 'Tropic Thunder' offensive and racist?

I did find Mr. Downey's performance racist, yes.

My point is not that it's racist to simply photoshop your face onto a picture of an Indian, but that it would be racist to photoshop your face onto any body (Indian, black, Chinese, Nazarene Hebrew, 'whatever') that isn't of your own ethnicity and coloring your skin to look like that ethnicity in an effort to make a joke about that ethnicity is racially insensitive. When Al Jolson and Robert Downey Jr. did it, it was called black face. Just because Downey was playing an actor who's so out of touch with reality that he thinks he can dress and act like an african american stereotype and if he really gets into character he can 'become' black, doesn't make him in black face okay. It was offensive in the 30s when Jolson did it. It was offensive in the 40s when bugs bunny did it. It's still offensive in any context.

If get physical wanted to put an Indian on the cover of Koze's compilation and call it reincarnations, why didn't they just put an Indian on the cover? Why Koze in 'Indian face' except to make a joke at the expense of the Indians.

OK then. Well i can see which direction this forum is heading!

duh... when you release a comp on get physical, then you are reincarnated as a hindu. it's an obvious step towards perfection. how do you not know that?!

Thanks matoswk

bareklik, i find it offensive you bringing a totally unrelated, and completely thoughtless argument to this album review.
after a 20 second google, i found, for your convenience, a couple of useful sites for you to share your opinions with, and maybe their you can find someone who agree's with race-conspiracies in the art work of electronic music.

www.srtrc.org
www.HumanRightsFirst.org

.......actually, i hope you don't feel I'm excluding you from this thread, and in-turn being racist?



Koze rocks, really interested in having a listen through this.

the good thing about digital downloads, is that you don't usually get the cover art, therefore never offended by politically incorrect artwork.

i am indian and i think the cover is awesome and in no way insulting

now onto what really matters, i give this mix a solid 4 out of 5

interested

I guess I am the only one.

Terre Thaemlitz had it right in the intro to Midtown 120 Blues. You all seem to have forgotten the context from which house emerged. 'The house nation likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering, but suffering is in here with us.'

In that regard this remix collection and its packaging are part of an ultimate hypocrisy, prejudiced iconography laid out as some joke we should all be 'okay' with, even defend as harmless, while we consume Koze's sanitized house tracks, utterly devoid of any social message beyond 'This is trying to be pop music. Consume it.'

I used to be a big advocate for the electronic music community as a social movement. I thought beyond the drugs and the spacey beats, we all felt the real message behind the music, that we all got the greater social context from which house and techno emerged, one created out of marginalization and a need to belong to something that purposefully existed on the margins of the mainstream straight, white corporate pop standards of musical production. But now I see that Simon Reynolds was wrong in Generation Ecstacy. Maybe electronic music used to be more than just hedonism and escapism with laser lights and thumping bass, but that raison d'etre is now almost as dead as Latin.

Those of you who responded all proved the most pessimistic point of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, that the minstrel show and the racial prejudice it embodies maintains a popular place in mainstream culture and is even defended by many of those who pretend to be culturally sensitive. Despite my disappointment in you all, I'll continue to search for that 'madonna free zone' and I hope when I find that dance floor that I won't be the only one there because he wants to pay homage to house's original message.

With that, I'll leave you all to your idle banter about how 'interested' you are in this comp so you can praise Koze endlessly and mindlessly and ignore the reality that you are all tacitly or intentionally taking part in the death of the soul of house music.

your a tosser

wow - to think that a great compilation of remixes has stimulated so much discussion on airing views on the elimination of racism...
It can only be deduced that the Soul of House music must therefore be truly alive.
Bareklik - embrace the sunshine and get out the way of your own politically correct programming... Don't you have a new president?

barklik>

take your angry, self pitied views to another forum. there are plenty of intelligent, open minded people on here, but you have clearly lost your focus on the content of this site. and in my opinion, your exactly the type of person who keeps racism around. open your heart and make a change if it bothers you so much. rather than regurgitating the same tired history that has been plauging all races for years. shut up and do some thing about it.

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I guess I am the only one.

Terre Thaemlitz had it right in the intro to Midtown 120 Blues. You all seem to have forgotten the context from which house emerged. 'The house nation likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering, but suffering is in here with us.'

In that regard this remix collection and its packaging are part of an ultimate hypocrisy, prejudiced iconography laid out as some joke we should all be 'okay' with, even defend as harmless, while we consume Koze's sanitized house tracks, utterly devoid of any social message beyond 'This is trying to be pop music. Consume it.'

I used to be a big advocate for the electronic music community as a social movement. I thought beyond the drugs and the spacey beats, we all felt the real message behind the music, that we all got the greater social context from which house and techno emerged, one created out of marginalization and a need to belong to something that purposefully existed on the margins of the mainstream straight, white corporate pop standards of musical production. But now I see that Simon Reynolds was wrong in Generation Ecstacy. Maybe electronic music used to be more than just hedonism and escapism with laser lights and thumping bass, but that raison d'etre is now almost as dead as Latin.

Those of you who responded all proved the most pessimistic point of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, that the minstrel show and the racial prejudice it embodies maintains a popular place in mainstream culture and is even defended by many of those who pretend to be culturally sensitive. Despite my disappointment in you all, I'll continue to search for that 'madonna free zone' and I hope when I find that dance floor that I won't be the only one there because he wants to pay homage to house's original message.

With that, I'll leave you all to your idle banter about how 'interested' you are in this comp so you can praise Koze endlessly and mindlessly and ignore the reality that you are all tacitly or intentionally taking part in the death of the soul of house music.

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I'm sorry, you lost me at "I guess". 5 word summary?

oh and...love this album. use to not care for koze, but mad respect these days for his work...that free track over at LWE has been on repeat.

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I mean I'm sure Koze didn't even think about it, and he's probably not racist himself, but, as any ethnically sensitive American will tell you, not thinking about it doesn't excuse it as being racist.

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mate, honestly, get over yourself and stop looking for things that just aren't there. some of the most ridiculous shit i've ever heard.

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If get physical wanted to put an Indian on the cover of Koze's compilation and call it reincarnations, why didn't they just put an Indian on the cover? Why Koze in 'Indian face' except to make a joke at the expense of the Indians.

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And why go looking for offense when none was meant? As if Koze and Get Physical made this cover to make a joke at the expense of the Indians. Please. Do you honestly believe that?

Get over yourself and go and pick a fight with an actual racist.

Yawn ..... I could find racism in the colours of a "Cornetto" or a blackboard or a picture of a "sacred" cow. You're just merely a representation or mirror image of your own beliefs if you can find the effort to come to such conclusions. Art is for open-minds and open-hearts not prissy heretics with wee little minds ..... use your own judgement fer f**ks sake .... the truth is not written.

Meanwhile I will continue to enjoy an examplary set ot tunes.

So anyway, back to the the album. I love it. Few tracks I'm hearing for the first time, and a few I know & love, like Matias Aguayo's Minimal, and the Heiko Voss classic 'I think about you'.

The idea of Koza being racist is laughable!!

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barklik>

take your angry, self pitied views to another forum. there are plenty of intelligent, open minded people on here, but you have clearly lost your focus on the content of this site. and in my opinion, your exactly the type of person who keeps racism around. open your heart and make a change if it bothers you so much. rather than regurgitating the same tired history that has been plauging all races for years. shut up and do some thing about it.

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wow, you must have thought you were talking to a black person. bet you didn't realize that barklik is a white man. so what does that say for his angry, self pitied views...only that he must not be angry out of self-pity, but perhaps out of compassion for all the oppressed and marginalized peoples in the world.
but you, being a white female (only a guess, but please, correct me if i am wrong), filled with your own self-hatred and self-pity, can't stand to see someone standing up to the oppression that leaves you feeling lonely and anorexic, turning you into a lesbian or whore, depending on what time of day it is, flashing your titties on girls gone wild and crying to your mom when you need an abortion.
instead of responding to a thoughtful post with racist trite, why don't you try closing your legs, getting out a book and reading so that you could actually come up with something intelligent to say? or would that be too hard for the poor little white girl?

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So anyway, back to the the album. I love it. Few tracks I'm hearing for the first time, and a few I know & love, like Matias Aguayo's Minimal, and the Heiko Voss classic 'I think about you'.

The idea of Koza being racist is laughable!!

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the idea of anyone being racist is horrific, the idea that you have a brain is what i am laughing at.

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I mean I'm sure Koze didn't even think about it, and he's probably not racist himself, but, as any ethnically sensitive American will tell you, not thinking about it doesn't excuse it as being racist.

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mate, honestly, get over yourself and stop looking for things that just aren't there. some of the most ridiculous shit i've ever heard.

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just because you are too white and too stupid to understand what is racist does not mean everyone else is, too. your ignorance represents the worst of your kind. why don't you try reading a little so that maybe you'll understand the world you are living in. and if not, remember nat turner. all of you. please.

Anyone else getting PMed by this warrior?


It just goes to show you can't be too careful.

Your ignorance perpetuates racism, fuckhead!

How's that for a 5 word summary?

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Your ignorance perpetuates racism, fuckhead!

How's that for a 5 word summary?

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You're a twat. The End.



There's mine. Now fuck off.

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You're a twat. The End.



There's mine. Now fuck off.

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This.