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Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay

Los Angeles, 25.07.23

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

  • 0:00:08
    Alessandro Adriani
    Dystopian Arpeggio
  • 0:02:11
    Dissemblance 
    Drag Me Out
  • 0:05:40
    Bertram 
    Lights Out
  • L.F.T. 
    Don't Try
  • Bertram (Chris Mitchell mix) 
    Lights Out (Chris Mitchell Remix)
  • An-i 
    Chapel Perilous
  • Dissemblance 
    Over The Sand
  • Repairs 
    High Rise Horizon
  • L.F.T. feat. Rosaceae 
    I Want To Be A Witch (feat. Rosaceae)
  • Repairs 
    Pleasure Principle
  • Sam Del La Rosa
    Racist Cops On A Jog
  • System 01 feat. Dr. Timothy Leary 
    From Psychedelics To Cybernetics
  • Principa Automatica
    My Known Pleasure
  • Bertram (C.L.A.W.S. mix) 
    It's All Good (C.L.A.W.S. Remix)
  • L.F.T. (The Hacker mix) 
    Panzer Tanz (The Hacker Remix)
  • Soft Crash 
    Hologram Rose
  • Le Syndicat Electronique 
    No Message
  • K. Alexei Shelby
    Vertigo
  • Sandwell District 
    Falling The Same Way
  • Ana Rs 
    Wipe Out
  • 33 1:3 Queen
    Searchin'
  • Quince 
    Space Pilot 3000
  • Dj Hell
    We Live We Die
  • Larionov, St Theodore 
    Bleak Warfare
  • Synewave
    Synewave 37 A
  • Solitary Dancer 
    Emails 2 Myself (Out-Of-Office-Version)
  • Modern Analysis 
    Proto Rhythm 1
  • Broken English Club
    Plague Disco
  • Wata Igarashi 
    Question And Answer
  • Mike Dearborn
    New_Dimension 2
  • Hesperius Draco 
    Moments Of Extremis
  • Ron Trent 
    Altered States (Original Mix)
  • Dave Angel 
    Original Man
  • Jeff Mills 
    Kat Race