Efdemin - Efdemin
(Dial, 2007)
Now
Berlin-based Efdemin looks set to join der Klub, with his debut
full-length largely flitting around between these dusky colourings
while adding a few of his own. Berliner Phillip Sollmann apaprently
studied music (in Vienna - ooh!), cultivating an interest in more
static forms (e.g. La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Phil
Niblock), so he's no slouch. And like his label-mates, he may be a DJ,
but is decidedly not what he plays. Sollman's smart techno is not
especially weird on top but distinctly wired at heart, tapered down
basslines and smart beats playing host to smoke and shimmer, ripples
and stabs. Efdemin stays clear of Pantha's self-grooming sulk-zone,
remaining largely on the lightside, with sometimes an inscrutable
speech sample puzzle to pique. Freer-spirited, certainly, and less
generically cultivating 'mystique,' though without getting all
uber-gloomy and goth-veiled on you, mysterious ways are occasionally
moved in, a touch of creamy-dark dreamscape being whorled into the
whirl of its sub-genre worlds.
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