Album Recommendation: Efdemin

Album Recommendation: Efdemin

28 July, 2008 | 6.29PM

• Written by: Amanda Connon-Unda
• Filed under: Music News: efdemin, lawrence, pantha du prince

Having returned last weekend from playing Melt festival, this Friday Efdemin graced the decks at Watergate in Berlin downstairs while Paco Osuna played upstairs.

Efdemin filled us in at the club with all of the happenings of his last very impressive year.

In 2007 Efdemin released his self-titled first full-length, which was touted as Album of the Year by Grooves Magazine, and he also put out several remixes on Dessous, Bpitch, Morris Audio, Aus! and Brut!

And, now he is in the process of test pressing an upcoming Dial 12” which will feature a track by his original deep house music moniker, “Phillip Sollmann”.

He says the sound on his full-length was the product of a logical progression from his more abstract house sound (in the vein of Theo Parrish) into what it is today - a combination of more club-friendly deep house, Detroit techno, and minimal.

In the last year Efdemin arrived in Berlin from Vienna where he had been studying electro-acoustic music production, and he embarked on the full-time art of music production.

Living in Wedding, a working-class area outside of Mitte, is what he says enables him to keep focused.

There he finds himself in a supportive environment with cheap rent, a garden, and rooftop patio for him and his friends to share.

From his flat he can bike to the heart of Berlin in seven minutes.

Philip explained that prior to the making of ‘Efdemin’ when he concentrated on music for several months straight, he never had enough time to make music.

Amongst regular odd jobs that Efdemin had (working at a café and at a supermarket), he also tried his hand as a hip hop music journalist, for magazines such as INTRO, Echo, and Grooves.
Regarding his production work, Efdemin confided, “Sometimes when people ask me for a remix I say that I don’t know what it will be like.

“It’s really a process I go through and then I end up somewhere.

“I feel some people have a cage around them, where they have only some elements they can choose from and it’s really well-chosen before.

“When I work on music it’s like I am starting from scratch. It can be really frustrating.

“Sometimes I come up with a track really quickly, but that only happens to me once a year or something.

“I feel so lucky when that happens.”

Since his ‘Efdemin’ album was released in 2007, Efdemin has been hard at work, DJing and touring every weekend.

He said, “I am label-mates on Dial Records with Pantha Du Prince and Lawrence and we have been touring Europe together.

We have known each other for a long time and we share a common interest in art, so it’s really nice to be with these guys”

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