Tune #77: Efdemin - Parallaxis

Deep.Hypnotic.Mesmerizing.

EFDEMIN - PARALLAXIS


Three years ago, the studio album Decay was released by Phillip Sollmann, the man behind the alias Efdemin. Efdemin's LP has been recently added in my music collection, after wandering randomly in Youtube and listening to one of the album's tracks. It is a kind of an oxymoron for a guy like me who discovered new music at first through P2P programs to become obsessed with buying hard copies at an older age!

Back to Efdemin: Phillip Sollmann produces music for the last 20 years. Originally hailed from the city of Kassel, he moved to Hamburg in the early 90's and he was hugely influenced by the local music scene. His first EP appeared in 1999, a collaboration with his friend Alexander Polzin under the Tobin moniker. The next step was the inclusion of a new track in the first installment of Total compilation, a sampler series that continues to this date by Kompakt. Their reluctance to create their own record label led to their co-operation with Dial, a newly created label by Paul Kominek, David Lieske and Peter M. Kersten, who shared the same music tastes.

In 2002, Phillip Sollmann move to Vienna, in order to study music. The Austrian techno scene was hardly existent, so Sollmann experimented with musique concrète compositions, a valuable experience that can be detected in studio album Something Is Missing of this period (2006). However, his passion for techno music re-emerged, as he had already moved to Berlin in 2005.

The last 10 years have been very productive for Efdemin: 3 studio albums and many 12''s, most of which were released under the umbrella of Dial. While in the 2 first two albums techno is blended with strong deep house elements, the Decay seems to be the most techno-ish, sometimes in a minimal manner and other times more banging.

You can read here a track-by-track review of the album by Phillip Sollmann himself.

Although my favorite track from the album is possibly Solaris, Parallaxis is presented in today's blog spot, just for the blissful breakbeat remake by Traumprinz (his real name is a mystery!).

EFDEMIN - PARALLAXIS (TRAUMPRINZ'S OVER 2 THE END VERSION)