The Skin Between Us is a new two-part project by French techno artist François X, released on XX LAB. More than a record, it’s a personal statement, a sonic meditation on identity, legacy, and embodiment within the European techno landscape.

Rooted in the raw energy of Black American electronic music and shaped by years in European club culture, the five tracks unfold across two EPs with a sound that is sensual, groovy, and percussive. From Detroit and Chicago to François X’s own mixed-race heritage, the project reclaims techno as a language of emotional and physical truth.

“This is an introspective collage of who I am,” he explains, a tribute to the lineage of narrative groove and to a soulful, frictive vision of Berghain. His formative years at Concrete deepened this approach: techno not as spectacle, but as tension, repetition, and release.

Part I tells the first part of that story from the raw instinct of Bone and Signal, to the hypnotic murk of No More Shell, whose cut-up vocal treatment recalls classic Chicago records by Mike Dunn or Djax-Up, and the stripped-down power of Silent Tension. Together, they form a personal language, built for both the club and the self.

This is music that remembers, responds, and transforms.

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The Skin Between Us Part I

Track made in an hour for a recorded masterclass which is available on request by email at Linear.system.rec@gmail.com

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Ketch with another stellar two-tracker. Bandcamp only.

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Label: Self-Released (Support Independent Artists!)
Album: Gannein - Archive 001
Tracklist:
Gannein - Popular Movement (Intro)
Gannein - Performative Cruelty
Gannein - Encaged Vice
Gannein - Trauma Bond
Gannein - Delicate Tension
Gannein - Ancestral Combination
Gannein - Fever Visions
Gannein - Le temps passe et déforme

Release Date: September 13, 2024
Format: Digital

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Gannein - Performative Cruelty [Archive001]

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Title: Posture Damage
Artist: Bailey Ibbs
Album: Posture Damage EP
Label: Night Service Records
Catalogue No.: NSR003
Format: 12" Vinyl + Digital

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Odyssey EP

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Bone And Signal

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Artist: KUSS & Sicion
Title: The Journey EP
Label: Molekül
Catalogue: MLKL041
Format: 12" Vinyl + Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: March 18, 2025 

Tracklist:
A1.	KUSS & Sicion - Dissolve To Evolve
A2.	Sicion & KUSS - Ego Death
B1.	KUSS - The Ride
B2.	Sicion - Breaking Point

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Music With A Massage LP

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Umay affiliates Sina XX unveils first album - Music With A Massage. Packed with SWANA  energies, the LP explores all kinds of tribal influenced techno, from the more experimental side - think of opening track Landing In Baghdad based on Arabic chants and sword sounds carefully sound designed - to more peak time energy with Minimal Action or A Strangers Smile.

The albums title - a playful nod to hip hops expression music with a message - questions technos ability to carry a message in a context of hyper commercialisation of its values. With this first LP, Sina XX cements his place as a producer who bridges cultures and people.

Sina XX - Landing In Baghdad

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Artist: François X 
Title: The Skin Between Us
Label: XX LAB
Catalogue: XXL009
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: June 20, 2025

Tracklist:
1. Bone and Signal 
2. No More Shell
3. Silent Tension

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Release Name: Bone and Signal
Track Title: No More Shell
Artist: François X
Label: XXLAB
Catalog: XXL009
Release Date: 20/06/2025
Format: Digital
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