Marcel Dettmann is back with his first album in four years. My Own Shadow is set for a 13th November release.
Pressed on 2LP Ecovinyl, the new album is rooted in textural minimalism and rhythm, bridging dancefloor history with fresh sonic exploration.
My Own Shadow is the psyche as observed through a gravitational lens, magnified with all its contours, stretched arcs and dark matter.
With this project, Dettmann has artfully built a tool to enable listeners and dancers to project parts of their own emotional consciousness which can only be accessed in the deep architecture of the mind, body and club.
For over three decades, Berlin-based DJ, producer, and curator Marcel Dettmann has remained a central force in electronic music, continuously pushing the boundaries of the craft. Deeply rooted in early influences ranging from post-punk and industrial to synth-pop, his dynamic DJ sets and expansive discography, including seminal releases on Ostgut Ton and Dekmantel, effortlessly weave together raw techno, Chicago house, electro, and avant-garde soundscapes.
Far beyond club booths and releases on his own imprints, MDR and Bad Manners, Dettmann’s multidisciplinary ethos has led him into artistic territories spanning gallery soundscapes, ballet compositions, and cinematic film scores. This relentless creative curiosity defines a career built at the intersection of dancefloor functionality, collaborative experimentation, and perpetual sonic evolution.
Dettmann introduced My Own Shadow last year, a project where music, visual art, and photography converged in two EPs, Approaching (2025) and Faultline (2026).
More than just a name, this project lets sound, image, and vision blend organically, reflecting his intuitive process of deconstruction, resonance, and emotional discovery.
Speaking about the project, Marcel says, “My Own Shadow wasn’t born from a big concept. I simply liked the idea of working under another name and started following it. Different things I was doing – music, photography, visual work – slowly began to connect. It happened quite naturally. My Own Shadow isn’t another person. My Own Shadow is me – just seen from another perspective.”
Neither an alter ego nor a departure, My Own Shadow is an intimate reflection of the artist; a transient, ever-shifting form that dances with the light and subtly reshapes its contours to reveal new depths.
My Own Shadow – Album is built with textural minimalism through rhythm, tension and release, embarking on a path through the recollections and experience of the dancefloor. This space remains the ultimate proving ground where history, instinct, and transcendence collide, guiding Dettmann through his musical interests.
“The way I work with sound is quite similar to how I think about images. I might take one sound and reshape it until it becomes something completely different. It’s almost like taking a landscape photograph, cutting it apart, burning parts of it and putting the fragments back together. At some point it creates a feeling – and then I know it’s there.”
My Own Shadow – Album is driven by rhythm, texture, space and tension. Across tracks such as ‘Gravitational Scar’ and ‘Resolution Vector’, these elements are constantly reshaped, connecting Dettmann’s past with a sound that remains firmly in motion. What they mean is left deliberately open, as he puts it: “I don’t need someone to understand the album in a particular way. I just want them to feel something. What that feeling is can be completely different for everyone.”
Marcel Dettmann – My Own Shadow
Tracklist:
1. Resolution Vector
2. Reconstruct Memory
3. Midnight Structure
4. Linear Depth
5. Temporal Junction
6. Anatomical Void
7. Obscured Presence
8. City Remains
9. Silhouettes In Dust
10. Divergent Orbit
11. Dark Surveillance
12. Threshold
13. Gravitational Scar
14. Mirrors
15. No Respone
16. The Signal That Stayed
17. Emergent Pattern
18. Residual Light
19. Afterimage
Marcel Dettmann’s My Own Shadow is now available to pre-order on vinyl, set for a 13th November release. The first single, Resolution Vector, is out now.
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