Efdemin Interview in Resident Advisor

04 March 2008 | By marek in General

I stumbled upon an Efdemin interview in Resident Advisor (published in summer 2007). His productions had managed to escape me for quite a while, however once they finally kicked in, it was for good. And it’s funny how his music kind of clicked with everything that I read in this interview. Here are just a couple of my favorite quotes:

I didn’t decide before that I wanted to do a minimal album or I wanted to do a house thing. It just flows through me and comes out.

I think house was labeled badly, like handbag house and things like that. And bad people were listening to house. House was like porn music. But now it has come back. It’s very good what Dixon does. Some people in Berlin and other places have really kept at it. I mean Dixon has been playing this kind of music for fifteen years and now people are like, ‘”Ah, he’s a new DJ. He’s so great.”

It’s a bit like if you have a really good Luciano set – he is my favorite DJ I think, sometimes – then you have four hours of nothing happening. It’s like a long line, which is the best thing that can happen. I always try to play like that. I can’t really because he’s so amazing, but that is the best thing. It’s like the old way of playing. There’s nothing really spectacular happening. It’s about feeling like “Okay. We are here. There is no time and I’m just dancing.”

Efdemin – Le Ratafia

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