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Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay
Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay
06.06.17 · Los Angeles

Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay

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

  • Broken English Club 
    Our History In Bones
  • KARL & THE CURBCRAWLERS (KARL O’CONNOR)
    UNTITLED
  • Minimal Compact 
    Statik Dancin'
  • Death Domain 
    Ethidium Bromide
  • CYBOTRON
    INDUSTRAIL LIES
  • DAF
    WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR TONIGHT
  • Phase Fatale 
    The Size Of God
  • John T. Gast 
    Congress
  • Aphex Twin 
    Ptolemy
  • John T. Gast 
    Infection
  • Geneva Jacuzzi 
    God Maker
  • Kraftwerk 
    Electric Cafe
  • TODO TODO
    MEGACICLOS DEL VERANANO
  • John T. Gast 
    Green
  • MOON POOL AND DEAD BAND
    MQ (PATRICK RUSSELL MIX)
  • Not Waving 
    Redacted 7
  • JASSS 
    Minotauro
  • SOLITARY DANCER
    LOSING TOUCH (DUB)
  • GESLOTEN CIRCLE
    STAKAN
  • SOLITARY DANCER
    EMAILS TO MYSELF DUB
  • Broken English Club 
    Breaking the Flesh
  • Drexciya 
    You Don't Know
  • SCHWEFELGLEB
    DURCH DIE HAARE DIE STRIN
  • Zarkoff, Ikonal 
    Dose Response
  • KIRILAIN CAMERA
    NEWS (ROOM 506 EDIT)
  • LVRIN 
    Asylum
  • ALESSANDRO ADRIANI
    ONE MINUTE (AFTER DEATH)
  • P.E.A.R.L. 
    Despair
  • Hell (Deecoy, Traxx mix) 
    Passionate (Traxx & Deecoy Remix)

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