Silent Servant - In Memoriam [Tresor]

But Mendez's relationship with music goes back far beyond these seminal releases. With "In Memoriam," Silent Servant's latest production on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30+ year career dedicated to exploring and absorbing the darker side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to past people, places, and times and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays homage to early Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the new wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound of Berlin, and the harder, more 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 period of time he is revisiting and recontextualizing as the EP repurposes the styles that exerted influence on him.

This EP represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memoirs while 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 headed.