STEFFI – WORLD OF THE WAKING STATE – OSTGUT TON

A thoughtful third album from Berlin’s Steffi, one that explores her clear knowledge of processes and procedures within electronic music writing – but which ultimately has human emotion at the end of it. Steffi’s skill as a producer is beyond doubt, with subtle variations on broken beat rhythms in the likes of ‘The Meaning Of Memory’ or the chattering beats behind ‘World Of The Waking State’. ‘Continuum Of The Mind’ has a stately keyboard line over busy lower end beats, spaced out but still active, but the album’s choice moment is when time stops at the start of ‘Bounces Of Nature’, which then gets busy with electronic chatter. Beautifully constructed techno, but with a certain warmth retained.
 
Ben Hogwood
5 out of 5