Description
DJ Koze might be one of the world’s best producers, but above all he’s a DJ, and it’s his DJ ear that governs.
With this now classic rework it’s time to remind everyone what’s most important about club music, pull things back, take a turn to the left, and get deep into the groove.
Thus “Pick Up”: the second single is 100% pure groove, doubly so on this extended 12” version.
In a sense it’s incredibly familiar – it is essentially a filter disco record, very close to something you could imagine coming out of Paris around the turn of the millennium. But of course, this is Koze. Nothing is normal or familiar in his world, and he’s taken this most foundational of clubland staples into new territory. Flipping samples of Gladys Knight & the Pips “Neither One Of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)” and Melba Moore’s “Pick Me Up, I’ll Dance“, it creates something completely airborne, shot through with emotions such as gods must feel: not quite explicable to the human mind but strong enough to knock you off your feet. When this drops it comes in like the proverbial iron fist in a glove of velvet.
Disco Edit lovers will instantly recognise the similarities between this and the Al Kent edit of the same tracks. But this is the version that sounds best blaring out of a loud house PA. Bomb!
The flip, a ten-minute new track, “The Love Truck” is a big contrast again. If “Pick Up” is giddy flight, “The Love Truck” is woozy floating. Its sharp, clicking percussion recalls 2000s minimal techno, but this time absolutely nothing is generic. The long, intense, on-and-off bass tones, the flickers of birdsong, the pure voices slipping in backwards as if from the future… it’s all like the most blissful dream, and culminates in a coda so subtle yet so beautiful it’s like ever time you’ve ever seen the sun rise and thought “I never want this to end”, all the while understanding deep down that the fleeting nature of the pleasure is also what give it its power. But of course, being created with that consummate DJ’s ear.
TRACKLIST
A – Pick Up (12″ Extended Disco Version (10:01)
B – The Love Truck (09:50)
