Five years after his last studio album, Efdemin returns with Poly, a multidimensional work that looks back across past decades of techno while, through its focused expressive force, conveying a distinctly contemporary, hedonistic intimacy. The album constantly oscillates between dancefloor and sound installation, creating a kind of meditative equilibrium.
Across eleven tracks, Efdemin articulates a particular elegance within dissonant, partly abstract sound sculptures – shaped by meticulous sound design and sensitive arrangements intended for attentive, intimate listening. The album opens with »Drift«, a hazy, almost veil-like piece that initially seems to hover gently before the view clears and a full-bodied kick emerges. The title track »Poly« combines cold, metallic rhythms with playful sequences to form a vibrating sonic body. »Signal To Noise« moves between a warm atmosphere of hiss and upward-fluttering artefacts, beneath which a pulsing beat unfolds.
The tracks »Rauris« and »Aachen« reveal their character through their titles alone: place-bound memories shaped into music. »Rauris« reads as a drifting homage, while »Aachen« holds a resonant dissonance between technoid claustrophobia and a warmth that radiates into reverberant space. »Microphase« erupts as an intoxicating storm of synthesizers before »Radical Hope« offers a moment of ecstatic release. »Below The Surface« closes the album, gently guiding the listener back to the ground, slowed by a mood of quiet longing.
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