Today we’d like to introduce you to Marius Pleil.
Hi Marius, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I grew up between different places and cultures. I was born in Feldkirch, Austria, moved to Matamoros, Mexico at two years old, then to Brownsville, Texas after seven months, before eventually returning to Austria. At ten, I moved to Shanghai, China, which is where my real journey began.
Shanghai is where I discovered music as a way of expressing myself. I started recording and producing, experimenting with everything from emo rap to completely different genres, and eventually began releasing my own music. I built a small but genuinely meaningful audience there, and that support gave me the motivation to keep creating and developing.
Over the years, my sound has become a mix of all the things that have inspired me: the emotion and honesty of emo rap, the unpredictability of hyperpop, elements of alternative rock, and the pop music of the 2000s and 2010s. Rather than sticking to one genre, I’ve always enjoyed combining things that normally wouldn’t be put together and seeing what comes out of it.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
For a long time, I didn’t even know I was on a road. For the first few years, music was more of an escape for me. It was simply something I did without thinking too much about where it could take me. It took years before I really started thinking about how to promote my music, share it with people, and find the audience it was meant for.
I was never a marketing genius, so for a long time I had to rely on the music itself to find the right people. At the same time, I went through a lot during those years, and I think those experiences naturally found their way into my music. They pushed me toward more abstract sounds and emotions and made me experiment even further.
Growing up, the world often felt like a strange alternate reality to me. Things didn’t always make sense in the way they seemed to for other people. Reality felt more like a collection of oddly painted, abstract images, some of them frightening, some of them beautiful, and many of them impossible to explain. I always felt like my mind worked differently, even from a young age, but I didn’t yet understand how to turn that into something useful.
For a long time, I saw that way of thinking as something I had to overcome. But over the years, I’ve realized that it might actually be one of the biggest strengths I have. I’ve learned to take that abstract sense of self and turn it into music, to make something out of feelings and ideas that I couldn’t necessarily put into words. I think that’s where a lot of my identity as an artist comes from. What once felt like a struggle has slowly become the tool I use to create.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I’m an independent artist going by the name EDC – Primiere. I write, record, produce and finish my own songs, usually taking an idea from nothing to a complete track in a single session. I specialize in creating music that blends different influences rather than staying within one genre, particularly electronic music, hyperpop, emo rap, alternative rock, and pop from the 2000s and 2010s.
What I care about most, though, is the emotional standard of the music. I don’t want my standard for a song to simply be how polished or technically perfect it sounds. For me, it’s about how good the feeling is that I’m able to give someone through it. I’m not trying to make music that is perfect. I’m trying to make music that makes you feel something.
I’m especially proud of my newest release, I WANT IT BACK, because it represents the foundation of where I’m taking my sound. It combines the nostalgia that has always been a big part of my music with more electronic elements, while bringing in influences from the music I grew up hearing on the radio.
I’m also very proud of the album Forever, which I made during the 2020 lockdown when I was only 14. Every song was recorded, processed and finished in a single session. Nothing was properly mixed or mastered, and I never went back to change anything. It was a complete “just do it” approach. Looking back, I think you can hear that it was the beginning of something much bigger than I could have imagined at the time. It captures a very raw version of me and a very specific moment in my development, which is exactly why it still means so much to me despite not being top notch production.
What was your favorite childhood memory?
One of my favorite childhood memories is visiting my cousins and family in Lower Austria. Every summer, my brother and I would travel halfway across the country and stay with them for a week or two. We had four cousins there, so we were always a group of six, which meant there was never a dull moment.
We’d spend the summers running around the fields, exploring new places, doing dumb things like kids do, and just enjoying being together. We even had a little tradition of sleeping outside in the garden for one night every summer, lying on the garden loungers and staying up together. It was such a simple thing, but at the time it felt like the greatest adventure in the world. Looking back, those summers are some of the memories I feel most nostalgic about.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edcprimiere?igsi=MXY1MDZ0aHlqaGgwbQ==
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@edc_primiere_official?si=P8dszf6Y-MTX5B2u
- Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/IZsDBZDU7Aa1yIEHXb
- Other: https://linktr.ee/edc_primiere?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAUI4elwZG9mAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABp5JFIShSI8lGiD5SIwZIjgwWitn2ymSIEa5KOW3SaT84lDj80mb5fZxtAf9Q_aem_BHtDpZ6zBiYYmoowNMUxAA
