Rhythmically sharp yet hypnotic, with a woozy, narcotic edge, tracks like 2013's Dunkel Jam seem to have soaked up the percussive energy and bass methods from 20 years of US house, techno and garage, as well as the full gamut of London's mutant dancefloor strains.
As such, his sensibility was gripped by opium, which was administered to him as a chewy paste by a certain Dr Moreau, who had travelled in the Orient and was curious about the effect of this narcotic on the cultivated western mind.
The LA times spoke to connoisseurs who called it "a narcotic" not a food, and there are not one, but two annual festivals in its honour: the Salo Festival in Poltava which takes place every February and With Love To Salo, held in Lutsk in September.
Witnesses say many are plied with dates stuffed with tramadol – a narcotic used to tranquilise horses – before being sent on missions.
Coffey, taken to Homan Square on 6 February 2015 on suspicion of "narcotic activity", defecated on the floor after two hours of fruitless requests for the bathroom.
It is a time-waster, they say, a drain on family incomes, a usurper of land and water better used for cash and export crops like coffee, and possibly a dangerous narcotic too.
Every afternoon, most Yemeni men and many women gather to chew its leaves, gossip and enjoy the mildly narcotic effect, akin to the buzz that comes from drinking too much coffee.
Aside from coffee, qat (a narcotic leaf chewed by Somalis), horticulture and a little tourism, Ethiopia is one of Africa's very few countries that still has virtually no serious private business and thus few jobs outside the state sector.
Everyone complains about it: taxi drivers grumble about soldiers at checkpoints confiscating money or qat, the mildly narcotic leaf that is universally chewed; businessmen say that the obligatory payouts to officials discourage, even prohibit, investment.The corruption is said to go all the way up, with top politicians and soldiers the biggest offenders.
Too many, though, act as a narcotic that eventually kills the animal.
It is based on fentanyl, a narcotic used as an anaesthetic.
