Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | Knocking at the Grand | 5:08 | 8,634 | |||
| 2 | Lohn & Brot | 8:09 | 9,629 | |||
| 3 | Le Ratafia | 6:03 | 8,112 | |||
| 4 | Acid Bells (album version) | 6:07 | 6,876 | |||
| 5 | Back to School | 6:04 | 7,440 | |||
| 6 | Stately, Yes. | 5:57 | 20,041 | |||
| 7 | Further Back | 6:58 | 6,903 | |||
| 8 | Salix Alba | 8:09 | 6,565 | |||
| 9 | April Fools | 11:31 | 6,227 | |||
| 10 | Bergwein | 7:43 | 9,779 |
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About this album
10 tracks (71:49)
It slots quite comfortably between albums from Dial labelmates Lawrence and Pantha Du Prince, but Efdemin’s red-eyed, late-night take on deeper techno and house (and occasionally, trance) is less about emotion and more about groove. A sophisticated and fluid debut, the Berliner is a self-assured producer who knows what he wants to do. His structures and builds are quite linear, but never too much: the attention to detail and subtle use of contrasts – key changes, unexpected drops, ambient fades – put flesh on the bones.
Some opposites are key: the fluid, half-tempo, neo-Detroit stabs versus perky beats on ‘Further Back’; the flowing euphoric strings versus chopped, ringing synth on both wonderful former single ‘Bergwein’ and ‘Salix Alba’, the latter of which begins as Prescription-sounding padded deep house and ends up twisting into tangled trance. Opposite is the uniform ‘Back To School’: amid the hypnotic stabs, the slow-rising deep chords match the submerged old-school bassline and delayed drums. It’s one of the trackier outings, but stick around for the ambient coda. ‘Stately Yes’ turns that template inside out: a stripped groove, comprised of dry, spitting drums, odd, prodded bass, a daft vocal sample and one solitary tapped triangle note. The hypno-house of former single ‘Lohn Und Brot’ still shines, while ‘Acid Bells’ is the album’s dark middle: the ringing bell refrain building into something marvelously menacing.
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