KZA, or Ikuzumi Kitazawa, is best known as half of Force of Nature, a two-man crew (alongside one DJ Kent) responsible for some of the finest disco edits and crate-digger music of the past decade-and-a-half. Fueled by KZA's enormous, genre-spanning record collection, the duo's music is perfectly sublime, crafted from bits and pieces of disco records, funk records, Euro-pop records, and well beyond. Perhaps it's because, growing up in Japan, the pair looks upon its source-material records with a fresh non-Western perspective — but whatever the reason, Force of Nature produces some of the finest, most compelling sample-based music around.
Of course, KZA is a sublime DJ, to boot. Armed with his massive record collection, he pairs irresistibly groovy disco edits with languid, slow-burning deep house in a particularly unhurried mixing style, letting each track breathe and unfurl before bringing in the next tune. Joining him are some of San Francisco's best hazy-disco selectors, Eug, known for his Face parties, and Mozhgan, of We Are Monsters, along with L.A. house practitioner Magic Touch.
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