Optimistic Decay: Jealous God / Sandwell District Special w/ Silent Servant 31st May 2022

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THE SLIP

Rory Bowens heads The Slip on Sunday mornings monthly - squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.

In the 1960s Françoise Hardy emerged, with effervescent fashion, into the boy's club of French pop music, quickly becoming an international sensation and a national treasure. Her famous sensuous singing voice, now synonymous with monochrome French sophistication and cool, has often been imitated to the point of parody, but rarely matched. Unlike many contemporaries, Hardy was willing and able to write original material, and remained incredibly prolific up until her recent retirement. This In Focus takes in the best of her romantic, nostalgic discography. Image credit: (Photo by Alain Liennard\INA via Getty Images)

Techno EBM Industrial

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

SS & SSS & S
Siglo 1
Broken English ClubBroken English Club
Plastic Bag
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Lust Abandon

In Aeternam ValeIn Aeternam Vale
808TS
Broken English ClubBroken English Club
Birth Control
Alexey VolkovAlexey Volkov
Never
SS & SSS & S
Siglo 2
SS & SSS & S
Siglo 4
James RuskinJames Ruskin
Into A Circle
In Aeternam ValeIn Aeternam Vale
V8
Alexey VolkovAlexey Volkov
Ruins
SS & SSS & S
Siglo 3
Silent ServantSilent Servant (PowellPowell mix)
Lust Abandon (Powell Reconstruction)
N/AN/A
Variance (Function Edit)
N/AN/A
Untitled (Function Edit)
FemaleFemale (James RuskinJames Ruskin mix)
Avon 1 (James Ruskin Remix)
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Demonstration
VandrossVandross (FemaleFemale mix)
Hurt Me, I'm Waiting (Female Mix)
N/AN/A
Variance IV (Regis Edit)
FunctionFunction
Disaffected
KalonKalon
Man Is The Superior Animal
FunctionFunction
Reykjavik
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Violencia (Kalon Edit)
CHCH
Signal Laboratories (8003 Lucerne)
Silent Servant, Silent Servant, KalonKalon
Violencia
KalonKalon
Haiku
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Doom Deferred
CH-Signal Laboratories (8003 Lucerne)CH-Signal Laboratories (8003 Lucerne)
Hypnotica Scale 2
Ch-SignalCh-Signal
N/A Untitled
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Discipline