Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay 4th May 2021

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Before Spotify, and before Napster; those of us with an appetite for weirdo, left-field, alternative, underground hip hop would trade dubbed cassette tapes through janky Angelfire-built websites. Connecting w/ eachother via chat rooms like AOL's "Hip Hop Music'', SOHH (Search Online Hip Hop), UGHH.com; or on message boards like the Living Legends forum, the Heiro message board, the Anticon message board, LA2THEBAY forum. We’d spend hours scouring websites like HipHopSite.com and ThaLandz.com for RealAudio files of new underground hip hop; and pour over new releases at online retailers like Access Music, Sandbox Automatic, and B-Boy Kingdom; always looking for the most obscure rare underground rap tapes. A lot of music from that era never made it onto streaming. This show is dedicated to the lost golden age of underground hip hop & the internet. Enjoy.

Electro Techno Synth Pop 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

Broken English ClubBroken English Club
Shadows and Tall Trees
Elektronische Musik Aus: KoelnElektronische Musik Aus: Koeln
Filmmusik
Pablo BozziPablo Bozzi
Efficient Accident

ShockShock
Dream Games
Black PropagandaBlack Propaganda
Shared Delusion
Adrian MarthAdrian Marth (Fabrizio MammarellaFabrizio Mammarella mix)
Disorder (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)
Stephen HussStephen Huss
Eternal City
Antoni MaiovviAntoni Maiovvi
Valencia (Jensen Interceptor Aigües de Valencia Remix)
Collin Gorman WeilandCollin Gorman Weiland
A Section Of Touch
BenedekBenedek
Lighten Up
Mutant Dance BeatMutant Dance Beat
Revival 80s
E.R.P.E.R.P.
Gleaning Creation
PrivacyPrivacy
Filestream
Code IndustryCode Industry
Carry Out The Order
AliensextoyAliensextoy
La 2019
Ausgang VerbotenAusgang Verboten
Consumer
Gohan Feat Al JerryGohan Feat Al Jerry
Karkoubi
DJ OverdoseDJ Overdose
Turns Out Eddy Has No Friends
Antoni MaiovviAntoni Maiovvi
Velvet Summer (Cardopusher Remix)
Black MerlinBlack Merlin
Ov
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Ranxerox
Setaoc MassSetaoc Mass
Silent Tension
FALSE WITNESSFALSE WITNESS
Third Space (Silent Servant Remix)
TruncateTruncate
The Dawn
Benjamin DamageBenjamin Damage
Azizos
Héctor Oaks & CadencyHéctor Oaks & Cadency
I’m Talking To You (Cadency Remix)
DeveloperDeveloper
Volumino
FilmmakerFilmmaker
Melting Plastic On Frail Skin
TransllusionTransllusion
Unordinary Realities
PsychePsyche (Joseph WattJoseph Watt mix)
Unveiling The Secret (Razormaid Re-Edit)
Arvid TubaArvid Tuba
The Seasons Are Sitting On Chairs