Name: In Memoriam
Brand: Silent Servant

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Rough Trade UK

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Limited edition

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Black

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Release date

2023-11-24

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TRESOR362

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4251804141451

Artist

Silent Servant

Label EU

Tresor

Genre EU

Techno / Electro

An American techno DJ and producer, Silent Servant was born in Central America and raised in Los Angeles. Growing up, he was heavily influenced by bands such as The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, My Bloody Valentine, and Sonic Youth. At the age of 16, he began his journey as a DJ.
In 1999, Silent Servant connected with Regis, the founder of the Birmingham-based Downwards label. This led to him becoming a member of Regis's Sandwell District collective. Throughout the 2000s, Silent Servant released a series of singles alongside Sandwell District.
Aside from his music career, Silent Servant has also worked as a graphic designer and art director at a high-end eyewear company. His diverse background adds depth to his artistic vision.

Tresor is a Berlin-based techno label that was founded in July 1991 by Dimitri Hegemann. The label takes its name from the techno club that was established in an underground vault after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tresor was formerly a division of another label, and it has undergone changes to its label code over the years.

From 1991 to 2002, Tresor had the label code LC 7572 / LC 07572. Afterward, from 2002 onwards, the label's code changed to LC 3702 / LC 03702.

Tresor has played a significant role in shaping the techno music scene with its authoritative presence and influential releases. With its roots deeply embedded in Berlin's rich musical history, Tresor continues to be at the forefront of electronic music innovation and remains a respected force within the industry.

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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.

In Memoriam

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