In Memoriam, by Silent Servant

In Memoriam

by Silent Servant

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Gerofff RIP, he will be missed

dj slow Missed this upon release. Huge loss for the techno community. M-99 surprises with its trancey-ness, a departure from his usual sound, and it's a fantastic complement to the pummeling beat. RIP to an icon. 🖤 Favorite track: M-99.

Markus (Hårek) Silent servant with minimal, eEBM and UK-rave distributed across four tracks is a must have. Honestly nothing but stompers on this ep. Favorite track: M-00.

DAS VILLAIN I'm still gutted that Silent Servant passed away! He was such a 'tour de force' in the world of electronic music. Heavily influences by Juan's immense love for post-punk/new wave/darkwave, his aesthetic blended exceptionally well into his aggressive gradation of techno, EBM, and industrial techno. RIP Juan and Simone. You are truly missed. Favorite track: M-90.

guerograves Living for these new Silent Servant trax!! Sexy vintage underground vibes! Mendez is fav producer in Los Angeles!

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- 15x15 cm printed inlay with artwork by Simone Ling
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Vinyl tracklist:
A1 M-87
A2 M-90
B1 M-99
B2 M-00

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about

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.

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released November 24, 2023

Written & produced by Juan Mendez / Silent Servant.
Strings on A1 by Simone Ling.
Published by DNNA.
Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering.

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When Tresor opened on March 13th 1991 in a shack on Potsdamer Platz, beneath which the vault of the Wertheim department store lay, no one would have thought that from there would arise an institution that one day would celebrate 33 years of existence.

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