Silent Servant - M-87 by Tresor Records published on 2023-10-05T09:16:54Z Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label's art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism. But Mendez's relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant's latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present. Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him. This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading. Genre Techno Comment by Giorgi Makharadze Rip π₯π 2024-03-04T16:39:11Z Comment by scotthart Rest in piece 2024-02-25T04:54:32Z Comment by MusicLover π₯π 2024-01-24T21:07:26Z Comment by dym_off π€π«Άπ½π 2024-01-23T23:05:54Z Comment by Larionov RIP ππΌ 2024-01-21T19:03:05Z Comment by child hoOd β¨π€β¨ππΌ 2024-01-21T17:03:12Z Comment by Moose rest in peace legend ππ»π 2024-01-20T12:22:35Z Comment by π¨ RIPπποΈ 2024-01-20T11:11:24Z Comment by Azra Tekuma RIP LEGEND! 2024-01-19T19:33:14Z Comment by SASHA EVSTIGNEEVA π₯ 2023-11-26T12:09:12Z Comment by Nika / Codex Fatale Archiv ππ 2023-11-24T11:43:23Z Comment by user877396337 Delicious 2023-10-27T02:26:23Z Comment by Codex Fatale π₯π 2023-10-10T02:33:22Z