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

Bone And Signal

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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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Premiere: François X - Silent Tension [XXL009]

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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
Artwork: XXLAB

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Premiere: François X - No More Shell [XXL009]

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