Marcel Dettmann Announces His First Album in Four Years. Bangkok Had to Wait a Decade for a First Set.

Marcel Dettmann is putting out his first album in four years, and the Berghain resident is bringing the same austere, tunnel-vision techno he's built a career on. My Own Shadow – Album arrives November 13 via !K7 Records, a 19-track project the label is billing as a convergence of music, visual art and photography. It's his first full-length since 2022's Fear Of Programming.

"I don't need someone to understand the album in a particular way," Dettmann said of the record. "I just want them to feel something. What that feeling is can be completely different for everyone."

Built From Two EPs

My Own Shadow has been arriving in pieces for almost a year. The Approaching EP came out in November 2025, followed by Faultline in May 2026, both laying groundwork for the same visual and sonic project the album now completes. The tracklist opens with lead cut "Resolution Vector" and runs through 19 tracks total, including "Reconstruct Memory," "Midnight Structure" and "Afterimage." In between the EPs, Dettmann kept busy on the remix side, reworking Mathilde Noble, Model/Actriz and Severed Heads, and stayed on the road throughout.

Why It Matters Here

Dettmann's catalogue has never been a frequent visitor to Southeast Asia, which is exactly what makes the region's one real encounter with it worth remembering. He skipped Thailand entirely for years before finally playing Bangkok for the first time on May 15, 2019, a debut set at Beam booked by Iconic and Mendy Indigo as part of a rare regional swing through Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, Kansai and Beijing. Iconic has since brought him back for a session at its own Iconic Studio space in the city, the kind of return date that doesn't happen often for an artist at his level touring this far from Berlin.

That scarcity is part of why a new album lands differently here than it might in Europe. It arrives weeks after Richie Hawtin's own move away from WME to an agency that has already vouched for Bangkok and Singapore's underground scenes, a reminder that the artists actually shaping techno's center of gravity are, slowly, paying more attention to what's happening in this part of the world. It also lands while Thailand's own scene keeps building infrastructure of its own, from Sunju Hargun's Ministry of Culture-backed vinyl pressing to the same promoter relationships that first brought Dettmann through. My Own Shadow – Album is out November 13 through !K7.

Cover photo: Marcel Dettmann, photographed by Sven Marquardt, courtesy !K7 Records/Resident Advisor.