Every Friday we bring the wax that has been making our week work. These tracks can be left field techno, dubby disco edits or minimal electro productions. Basically anything goes as long as track has that special something, new or old.As huge fans of the Ostgut Ton label and the various artists that have released on the imprint over the years, it was a natural choice to select this magical number as our weekly wax.
Efdemin is an artist made of two minds. There’s Phillip Sollmann, who in 2017 marshalled a stage full of Harry Partch and Harry Bertoia instruments for a subtle, modern composition called Monophonie. On the flip side is Efdemin, the emotional techno producer who DJs closing sets at Berghain. Until now, the German artist has kept these pursuits mostly separate. Yet over three albums for Dial and various experimental works, he’s yearned for a synthesis of these approaches.
On New Atlantis, Sollmann gets closer than ever to reconciling his avant-garde and dance floor sides, folding microtonality, invented instruments, hymns and field recordings into an immersive and gripping techno album.
