01/04/2026
KOMPAKT OPEN AIR at .bcn in Barcelona,Spain.
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DJ Koze exists a little outside of time of time. Not only because his records can take you to places where everything seems to stop, the present moment expanding out to the horizon, but because he manages to function on a timeline completely detached from the usual dreary cycles of hype, influence, club hits, press credibility and career progression that govern so many of the structures of the music world. None of which is to say, though, that he’s a wilful “outsider” artist: though Koze’s music has been consistently strange and psychedelic, he has absolutely no truck with courting obscurity or alienating people for the sake of it, and he is hugely popular with very good reason. His identity on the dance scene as DJ Koze was also becoming well established by this point. He was first voted SPEX magazine’s number one most popular DJ in 1999, and would hold that honour for NINE years. He also began a relationship with Kompakt around this time, his releases beginning with September 2003’s “Der Säger Von St. Georg” (a track on the Speicher 11 EP) and a three-track 12” titled The Geklöppel Continues. The following month, he recorded his second commercially released mix, All People Is My Friends, which was released on Kompakt the following January. From here his flow of tracks was steady, punctuated occasionally with thrilling albums, all of which still stand the test of time: Adolf Noise’s Wo Die Rammelwolle Fliegt (Buback, 2005), DJ Koze Kosi Comes Around (Kompakt, 2005) and, on his own Pampa label, Amygdala (2013). DJ Koze’s new album Music Can Hear Us, released on April 4, 2025, entered the official German album charts at number 4 and received widespread critical acclaim worldwide. We are really happy and excited to have him back for this event!
Tickets via link in stories.
