Stefan Kozalla

Place: Flensburg

Born: 1972

Biography:

Stefan Kozalla, better known as DJ Koze, is a German DJ and music producer born in 1972 in Flensburg, Germany. He first became known in the Hamburg music scene and started as a rapper and DJ for various hip-hop groups in Flensburg. In 1991, he reached second place in the German DMC Championship. Two years later, he moved to Hamburg and founded the hip hop formation Fischmob. In parallel, he also dealt with electronic music and produced some remixes, sometimes under the pseudonym Adolf Noise. A collection of such remixes appeared in 2000 under the title Music Is Okay. With Max Goldt as spokesman he released 2001 as Adolf Noise the single 'Deine Reime sind Schweine'. Together with Cosmic DJ and Erobique he founded the project International Pony. Since 2003, Koze published several Techno-Maxis at the Cologne label Kompakt under the name Monaco Schranze. He lives and works in Hamburg and Cadaqués.