On 23 October 2023, I was on a train headed to an exhibition at C/O Berlin. A Monday. Grey outside and just cold enough to make you notice. Somewhere between stations, my phone buzzed. An email from
@freundderfamilie â¨They told me they were about to start a new labelâ
@paradijsboogie . A home for the deeper ends of electronic music â something warmer, something stranger.â¨They asked if I could imagine writing an album for them. The very first release.
At the time, I was still promoting Movements in an Empty Department Store, the only album on my own label, StĂłlar. It wouldnât come out until December. Before that, there was Apparently Calm Palms in 2022.
But that same morning, I got another messageâone that didnât start anything new, just pulled me further into what I was already feeling. The hole was already there.â¨This just made it darker.
So FDFâs email felt like something to hold ontoâa kind of lifeline tossed into a sea I hadnât realised I was drifting in.â¨I spent the next ten days sketching the core of seven out of nine tracks, reaching out to friends Iâd been meaning to work with. â¨Call it distraction. Call it necessity. That album became both: a way to not think, and a way to feel everything.
If youâve listened to my previous records, youâll know I like to do some weird story telling with themâthe track names, the moods, the spaces in between.
This one became a story too: about endings, absence, and the sometimes desperate urge to stay busy when your mind wonât shut up.
Back then, I kept telling myself it would be alright.â¨Now I actually believe it.
Until the End
09.06.25
xoxoâ¨Philipp
Artwork by Klaus Rakete
Photography provided by
@peteroliverwolff
Mastering by
@svenweisemann
2. Slide A1 - Make Me Feel High
3. Slide B2 - Keep On | with
@ben__kaczor
4. Slide C2 - Was It Worth It All? | with
@tim_eder_909
5. Slide D2 - All I Need |Â with
@ohmiceland
6. Slide D3 - Until The End |Â with
@soelaela