Phillip Sollmann

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Phillip Sollmann (* 1974 in Kassel ) is a German musician , DJ , sound artist and label owner in the field of electronic music . He was best known for his publications under the pseudonym Efdemin .

Life

Phillip Sollmann was born in Kassel in 1974. In 1994 he moved to Hamburg . There he first founded a band that played a mix of post-punk and soul, but then turned increasingly to electronic music. After he met Alexander Polzin in 1998, he produced his first pieces of music with him. In 1999 a single was released under the project name Tobin . In the same year, the Kompakt label selected one of the Tobin tracks for the highly acclaimed Kompilation Kompakt - Total 1 . This was followed by first DJ appearances in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin.

In 2002 Sollmann moved to Vienna , where he studied electroacoustic music at the University of Music and Performing Arts . During his studies he dealt increasingly with electro-acoustic and microtonal music , musique concrète and sound art .

Sollmann has been releasing his records on the Hamburg label Dial Records since 2004 . Sollmann has lived and worked in Berlin since 2005 . In 2006 Dial released his first album Something Is Missing under his real name. The following year the first album followed as Efdemin . The readers of the German techno magazine Groove voted the self-titled album first in the annual charts. The popular piece Just A Track became particularly well known . After the mix CD Carry On - Pretend We Are Not In The Room , the second Efdemin longplayer Chicago was released in 2010 , also on Dial. Since then, Sollmann has also made an increasing number of international appearances, including in Japan.

Sollmann stated in an interview with Resident Advisor in 2007 that the name Efdemin goes back to the radio play character of a Romanian villain. In the radio play Die flammende Spur (1980) from the series Die Drei ??? a character named Mihai Eftimin appears.

As a sound artist, he started a project in Beijing in 2012 in which he wanted to "artificially re-imagine" lost sound spaces. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute in the Japanese Villa Kamogawa , but resided in the Villa Massimo in Rome. As part of the scholarship, an artistic film is to be created in Kyōto in which image and sound intermesh process-like. For Sollmann, the interplay of natural and cultural areas was in the foreground. Together with Konrad Sprenger , he realized the installation Modular Organ System , a system of organ pipes that are controlled via MIDI, in various rooms from 2017 , among others in the Berliner Kunst-Werken and at the Monheim Triennale.

Sollmann operates the naïf and LirumLarum labels . In addition to his solo activities, he publishes together with Oliver Kargl (RNDM) as Pigon and with Marcel Fengler as DIN . As a remixer, he has provided new arrangements for pieces by Pantha du Prince ( Butterfly Girl , 2005), Phantom / Ghost ( Relax It's Only A Ghost , 2006), Swayzak ( Apple Tree , 2007), Sascha Funke ( The Acrobat , 2007), Danny Tenaglia ( Perfect Moment , 2008), Depeche Mode ( Corrupt , 2009) or DJ Koze ( La Duquesa , 2013). Sollmann collects vinyl records and has, among other things, numerous pressings of Donald Fagen's album The Nightfly (1982).

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2006: Something Is Missing (Dial)
  • 2007: Efdemin (Dial)
  • 2010: Chicago (Dial)
  • 2014: Decay (Dial)
  • 2019: New Atlantis (Ostgut Ton)

Singles and EPs

  • 2004: Kleine Wirrniss EP (Dial)
  • 2005: Bruxelles (Dial)
  • 2006: Empty / Lohn & Brot (with Angelo Battilani; love * detail)
  • 2007: Métisse 02 (with Dub Kult; Métisse)
  • 2007: Acid Bells / Helicopters Got Cameras (Nightflight) (with Tampopo; Curle Recordings)
  • 2007: Split (with Carsten Jost ; Dial)
  • 2008: America / The Pulse (Curle Recordings)
  • 2009: Métisse 05 (with CRC; Métisse)
  • 2009: Phantasma Vol.1 (with tobias ; Diamonds & Pearls Music)
  • 2011: Chicago Remixes 1 (Dial)
  • 2011: Chicago Remixes 2 (Dial)
  • 2011: Please (Curle Recordings)
  • 2011: Slices / Lohn & Brot (with Sven Weisemann ; love * detail)
  • 2011: Edition Rodeo 01 (with Roman wing ; Rodeo)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hanna Schwarz / Phillip Sollmann (visual arts / music) at goethe.de, accessed on May 1, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d Interview with Efdemin at tokafi.com, accessed on May 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Efdemin at laut.de, accessed on May 1, 2014
  4. ^ Dial E for Efdemin. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The three ??? 20 "... and the flaming trail". Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Phillip Sollman. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Phillip Sollmann. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Bartmanski, Dominik / Ian Woodward (ed.): Vinyl: the analogue record in a digital age . Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, p. 135.
personal data
SURNAME Sollmann, Phillip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Efdemin (pseudonym); Efdemona (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Germany