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Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay

Los Angeles, 12.12.23

With Silent Servant

Silent Servant is the primary pseudonym of California electronic artist Juan Mendez, who produces techno with a heavy post-punk/industrial influence. He first began releasing material as Silent Servant during the mid-2000s, when he was a key member of the influential techno collective Sandwell District. Following numerous well-received underground singles, he made a major impact on the techno world with Negative Fascination, his acclaimed 2012 full-length debut. Following Mendez's co-founding of the Jealous God label in 2013, as well as several singles and collaborations with the likes of Marcel Dettmann and Phase Fatale, Silent Servant released his second album, the more overtly EBM-influenced Shadows of Death and Desire, in 2018. 2023 sees Mendez continuing to Play the US and Europe, New releases On L.I.E.S., Tresor and maintaining his sixth year of the Optimistic Decay radio show on NTS.

Tracklist

  • 0:00:20
    Shed 
    Estrange
  • 0:06:20
    Maurizio 
    M05A (Edit)
  • 0:06:50
    Maurizio 
    M04.5A (Edit)
  • Maurizio 
    Domina (Maurizio Mix)
  • Function
    F3
  • Steve Bicknell
    When Things Of The Spirit Come First (Track 3)
  • Steve Bicknell
    In Order To Remember One Needs To Know (Track 4)
  • Robert Hood 
    Minus
  • Morph (The Advent mix) 
    X-Ex (Advent Unreleased Mix)
  • Freddy Fresh 
    5 More Mouths
  • Subtractive Synthesis
    Push
  • Regis (Sleeparchive mix) 
    Asbestos (Sleeparchive Remix)
  • Damon Wild 
    Loupian
  • Nuno Dos Santos
    Remit
  • Shed 
    The Dirt
  • Truncate 
    This Freak
  • Surgeon 
    Prowler (Alternate Version)
  • Surgeon 
    Atol
  • Kevin Saunderson
    Smooth Groove (Original Mix)
  • SoulDestroyaz 
    Mind Tricks
  • Li'l Louis 
    Frequency (Track)
  • Li'l Louis 
    Frequency (Vocal)
  • Damon Wild & Tim Taylor 
    Bang The Acid
  • Drexciya 
    Black Sea (Aqualung Version)
  • Subtractive Synthesis 
    3-2
  • DBX 
    Spock's Brain
  • A4 
    Kynosoura
  • Shed 
    The Dirt
  • Norman Santos
    Fortnight
  • Sleeparchive 
    Transport (Loop)
  • Basic Channel 
    Phylyps Base
  • Disorder 
    Groove Attack
  • Choice 
    Acid Eiffel
  • UR 
    The Final Frontier
  • DJ Skull
    Don’t Stop The Beat
  • Ausgang 
    Echoe Park
  • DMO 
    Fifteen
  • Voyager 8 
    We Left The Planet
  • Throbbing Gristle 
    Hot On The Heels Of Love (Carl Craig Re-Version)
  • Blush Response
    This Pain Is Not An Illusion Blush Response