DJ Phono and his producer Jimi Siebels (A DIFFERENT JIMI / EGOEXPRESS / IT’S RECORDS) allowed themselves to take this time, two years, to be precise. “I didn’t work consistently on this album, but waited for those moments, that enabled me to work out of a certain emotion. This very often made it possible to capture this momentary emotion within my music. For me these are those sublime moments, that a musician is sometimes lucky to have – the feeling of being able to manifest a mood in music. Music and musician as a medium, if you like… During the last year, I was often in an emotional state that led to these kinds of moments and allowed me to do just that. And of course Jimi is a very special character with a discerning sense for little inconspicuous details.” The outcome – “Welcome To Wherever You’re Not” – is an album that DJ Phono likes to hear himself. And Jimi probably does as well. It defines itself in an interjacent, between here and there, between main floor and backroom, between big and small, between yesterday, today and tomorrow, between pop and club, or in short: in between worlds. At Hamburg’s fish market, not far from the Pudel Club where DJ Phono feels at home, they will lament the amount of meat being displayed while at the Schlachthof meat market, just opposite of Phono’s studio, some say they sense the smell of fish. The florist around the corner however is full of praise for the wide variety of rank growth. One quality all 12 songs from “Welcome To Wherever You’re Not” have in common is their remarkable fashion of elegant reserve.