After releasing in 2006 his first Silicon Scientist record "Windows on the world", Stefan found the time to work on the Sonnenbrant album "Gestern" just to start working again on new solo tunes. POLY is his second album which, as the first, is available in vinyl format only. The album opens with "Silicon beach", a track that immediately makes you dive into the soft waves produced by the polymoog keyboards (you can find sounds produced with Korg MS-10, MS-20, Multimoog, Roland CR-78, SH-101, Solina String Ensemble, Waldorf Pulse Plus). Electro-pop melodies that now have upbeat rhythms (like on "Lost city") and then mid tempos, sound like soft waves thanks to the characteristic sounds of the keyboards used. The bass lines and the synth leads used don't drill your ears but like a dreamy flux they gently rock your cradle. For the lovers of new wave sounds (see the first New Order albums of the late 80s The Cure albums) "Meltdown" will be the track for you, thanks to tribal drums, flanger bass guitar and acoustic guitar. With the new album you can find as bonus a CD containing outtakes coming from the POLY recording session plus compilation tracks ("When the world slows down", and "Submarines - first version" have been released on "Synth stations" and "Hamburg hit news 2006" compilation albums, respectively) and "Inselwinter I"/"Inselwinter II" two songs coming from the first instrumental album which has never been released. These bonuses will make you appreciate even more the melancholic analog synth sounds that Stefan produces (and thta on these ten tracks sound less dreamy) like a craftsman and will show also his dance pop side thanks to the opening song "Seven" (born from a demo made by Annalogue Records boss, Marc Schaffer).