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Efdemin
Poly
Ostgut Ton - Cat No: Ostgut LP 38
- updated:2025-11-06
ベルリンのミニマル/テクノ/アンビエントハウス鬼才EFDEMINことPhillip Sollmannによる6年ぶり待望ニューアルバム「Poly」がOstgust Tonからリリースされた！！いやはや待った甲斐がありました！エレクトロニック・ダンスミュージックとテクノミニマル、アンビエント、現代音楽、実験音楽エクスペリメンタル・アヴァンギャルドの歴史と現在、未来を繋げる唯一無二圧巻のエレガントな音世界が広がる意欲作にしてトリップサウンズ傑作が誕生している。
Track List
The repress is expected in the first week of December 2025!
After a six-year hiatus, Efdemin returns with POLY — his fifth studio album, released on the recently revived Berghain-affiliated label, Ostgut Ton.
As the title suggests, POLY explores multiplicity: of rhythm, texture, style, and emotion. Across eleven meticulously sculpted textures, the album weaves a multidimensional web of sonic references, nodding to the origins of techno while pushing resolutely into uncharted terrain.
POLY feels like an afterglow — of decades on the dancefloor, of restless sonic exploration, and of a profound connection to the spaces and communities that have shaped Efdemin’s sound.
Over the course of 60 minutes we are taken through different territories and landscapes of sound. Mysterious and swirling, abstract and droning textures over at times fast and stoic rhythmic concepts. Sometimes the sunlight breaks into the opaque and mysterious soundscapes before the pulse is taken over and sucks us back straight into the club.
The overall tone of POLY is mild and playful, introvert and at times dreamy. The music is rich in sonic expression and breathes the spirit of musical concepts that have been refined over the course of decades. What Sollmann has condensed here feels like a culmination of his multilayered and polyphonic personality situated between Club, Museum, Studio and Academy.
The album cover features a striking photograph of a human ear by renowned German artist Isa Genzken. Known for her radical visual language, Genzken’s work here functions as a metaphor for deep listening. The ear symbolises the layered complexity and immersive quality of the music on POLY — an invitation to perceive sound in all its depth, fragility, and force and unlock its potential to unite different voices in a distorted reality.
All tracks written and produced by Phillip Sollmann.
Published by Edition Parallaxis | Sony Music Entertainment
Mastering by Rashad Becker at clunk, Berlin
Artwork: Isa Genzken | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
After a six-year hiatus, Efdemin returns with POLY — his fifth studio album, released on the recently revived Berghain-affiliated label, Ostgut Ton.
As the title suggests, POLY explores multiplicity: of rhythm, texture, style, and emotion. Across eleven meticulously sculpted textures, the album weaves a multidimensional web of sonic references, nodding to the origins of techno while pushing resolutely into uncharted terrain.
POLY feels like an afterglow — of decades on the dancefloor, of restless sonic exploration, and of a profound connection to the spaces and communities that have shaped Efdemin’s sound.
Over the course of 60 minutes we are taken through different territories and landscapes of sound. Mysterious and swirling, abstract and droning textures over at times fast and stoic rhythmic concepts. Sometimes the sunlight breaks into the opaque and mysterious soundscapes before the pulse is taken over and sucks us back straight into the club.
The overall tone of POLY is mild and playful, introvert and at times dreamy. The music is rich in sonic expression and breathes the spirit of musical concepts that have been refined over the course of decades. What Sollmann has condensed here feels like a culmination of his multilayered and polyphonic personality situated between Club, Museum, Studio and Academy.
The album cover features a striking photograph of a human ear by renowned German artist Isa Genzken. Known for her radical visual language, Genzken’s work here functions as a metaphor for deep listening. The ear symbolises the layered complexity and immersive quality of the music on POLY — an invitation to perceive sound in all its depth, fragility, and force and unlock its potential to unite different voices in a distorted reality.
All tracks written and produced by Phillip Sollmann.
Published by Edition Parallaxis | Sony Music Entertainment
Mastering by Rashad Becker at clunk, Berlin
Artwork: Isa Genzken | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
今作「Poly」はタイトル通り、リズム、テクスチャー、スタイル、そして、エモーションの多様性を探求する、緻密にじっくりと構築されたテクスチャーが、テクノの起源に敬意を払いながらも未到の領域へ踏み込みながら多次元的な音響空間をデザイン配置しながら音響探求された11トラックによって構成されている。
神秘的サウンドスケープ、様々な領域や音風景を夢幻的に行き来する夢見心地な60分。アルバムカバーには、著名なドイツ人アーティスト、Isa Genzkenの人間の耳を捉えた深い聴取のメタファーとして機能する印象的な写真が使用されている。美しいジャケットアートワーク装丁フィジカル見事な逸品。レコメンドとさせていただきます。2LP＋Download Code 付き。 (コンピューマ)