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Efdemin by Efdemin

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Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Knocking at the Grand	5:08	8,424
2	Lohn & Brot	8:09	9,270
3	Le Ratafia	6:03	7,904
4	Acid Bells (album version)	6:07	6,714
5	Back to School	6:04	7,262
6	Stately, Yes.	5:57	19,829
7	Further Back	6:58	6,667
8	Salix Alba	8:09	6,391
9	April Fools	11:31	6,063
10	Bergwein	7:43	9,100

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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.