Despite the slowly growing hype around DJ Klock, he arrives at for the interview, not with a label rep, but with his wife, Yuki. At the office of his small record company, Clockwise, he even answers the phone.
His music provides the same sort of surprise too. As his work with new DJ unit Whahakha attests, his deft use of the mixer and turntables is flawless. But though his skills may come from hip-hop and he may have released his solo album on a techno label, his beats have more in common with free jazz than either genre.
And then there is Cacoy, his odd little side project with two members of psychedelic group The Tenniscoats. Their new album, "Human Is Music," sits somewhere between Young Marble Giant's stripped-down electro pop and Yann Tierson's carnivalesque film scores.