Q+A: andhim

'German Winter' is a really stunning, beautiful, pensive track. Can you tell me a bit about how that came about?

Actually it’s funny because it’s like the 10^th version or so and in the beginning it was something based on samples we had, or Tobias had, in his archive, for like 10 years maybe, the chords and the samples … what I like to do, is to dig in the archive and see what’s there because we have a huge library because we’ve been digging for so many years and then I was like “Hey, man, we really have to do something out of it!” and then we started to work around.

Actually, we started to work on this track one-and-a-half or two years ago and it changed so much during this time. The final result we’re very happy about but it has nothing to do with the first sketch we did. But sometimes it’s like that, you hear something and then you try and make something out of it, then you're not happy with the result and it stays there for a year or so, and then you start working on it again. So it was a long process.

Are you working on material for an upcoming EP or have you got anything else in the works?

Now with the new label, with our own label, we’re super motivated to make music and to get it out. I mean, we’re always motivated but sometimes it’s just too hard with all the touring. But now we have a lot of stuff coming this year, a lot of remixes already finished, we’re working on some other remixes and we already have the next EP finished.

So there will be a new EP, I don’t know, in April or May, coming out. This again is very different. It’s more like techno but still has the andhim groove.

So was Superfriends a label you set up to explore some different kinds of sounds? What was your vision for the label?

The label is, at the moment, only for our music and our output. We’re not aiming to become the next super cool house label or whatever. I mean, of course! But only for us, and our music, because I think it makes it easier to show people our vision of house music and our diversity and variety of sound.

So where the Tosch EP was like melancholy the next EP will be more like dancefloor banger, techno, whatever, and maybe the third EP will be like, I don’t know, happy summer, whatever, or we’re also thinking we might do like an ambient EP, you know. So it’s just a platform where we want to be as creative as possible without any borders or without looking at other acts or artists or at the Beatport charts, or whatever, just make music and this is like how we started. Just make music and that’s a very, very good thing and I hope the people will like it.