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.

BANDCAMP

Silent Servant - M-99

Yan Cook - Collateral Damage - Delsin Records - Inertia-11

buy vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7860/
buy digital: https://yancookdelsin.bandcamp.com/album/collateral-damage

a1. Balance Point
a2. Collateral Damage
b1. Late Night Kyiv
b2. Pulsar

@Yan_Cook bringing new techno pressure for the Delsin Inertia series.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

Yan Cook - Collateral Damage EP (Inertia-11)

First up in Nicolas Bougaïeff’s ‘EP1’ is 'Primal Express', in which he returns to NovaMute for their next wave of releases with layers of elastic synth lines and rolling drum funk. It’s the first instalment in a three-part series on the Mute offshoot and is a dark but enticing work of heady minimalism featuring enchanting synths darting like cosmic rays into otherworldly dimensions. The psychedelic 'Obviate Thought' then boasts tight and punchy drums overlaid with haunting sounds that pan throughout the mix in tripped-out fashion. Last of all is 'Concrete Love,' a gritty and glitchy techno pumper with mind-melting loops and scratchy synth textures peeling off its percussion as the whole track powers on unrelentingly.
 
Berlin Academy of Electronic Music founder Nicolas Bougaïeff is not only a DJ who has played institutions such as fabric and Berghain, and a producer who has regularly released on Mute and NovaMute, but also someone involved in music technology. He designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman Live tour, and in 2010 with Hawtin, he co-founded Liine, the company behind the landmark music app Lemur. Now, the Berlin-based Canadian Bougaïeff drops another artfully crafted and hugely potent techno EP with ‘EP1’, setting the tone for the stellar releases that will follow.

Nicolas Bougaïeff
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nicolasbougaieff
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolasbougaieff/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolasbougaieff/

NovaMute
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/novamutenovamute
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/novamutenovamute
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novamute_/

PREMIERE: Nicolas Bougaïeff - Obviate Thought (NovaMute)

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Ōtone. "Slice (Go Hiyama Remix)" comes off the new release, Sliced Remixed, forthcoming on YGAM. Originally released as part of Catartsis & Ōtone’s “Mechanical Gesture” split EP in 2020 on Obscuur Records and reissued as a 12” record in 2021, Ōtone’s “Slice” has since been summoned into the sets and ears of a myriad of DJs and dancers. Now, the track gets a much welcome remix treatment resulting in an eclectic gathering of breakbeat, techno, and hyperpop chimaeras through which recordings of cutting engines swirl anew thanks to the craft of Sister Zo, Go Hiyama, Lara David, Yogg, Neve, and Catartsis. Today we premiere the heavy hitting Go Hiyama remix. 

Slice Remixed is out December 15th. Pick it up at: https://ygam.bandcamp.com/album/slice-remixed

https://soundcloud.com/ygam
https://soundcloud.com/otonenoto
https://soundcloud.com/go-hiyama

PREMIERE: Ōtone - Slice (Go Hiyama Remix)[ygm14]

A spectrum of northern deep raw blue-sea sound melting techno, deep, ambient and electro all together.

releases January 19, 2024
https://krlf.bandcamp.com/album/frontier-of-the-sea

All tracks are produced and mixed by Antoine Husson.
Mastering by Riccardo Martinelli.
Artworks by Sabatino Santacroce.

KRLF024_ Electric Rescue - "Frontier Of The Sea" [Limited Edition 2XLP] (previews)

Full album → https://goo.su/zwGwG3
Video → https://lc.cx/URPmab
Artist: cat can do
Title: M SERIES VOL.2
Format: Vinyl, 12" / Digital
Artwork by Masha Weisberg
Rel date: end of February 2024
Catalogue: DREA015 
Tracklist:
Vinyl:
A side >>
A1-M15
A2-M18
A3-M7

B side >>
B1-M5
B2-M2

Digital: 
1. M15
2. M18
3. M2
4. M14
5. M5
6. M7
7. M30
8. M21
9. M16
10. M17
11. M1
12. M0
13. M9

Written, Produced and Mixed by Sean Parker. 
Mastered by Jesse Creed at CanMARC, Vancouver.

Vinyl orders include two Diffuse Reality stickers and digital downloads of the full release.

www.diffusereality.net
linktr.ee/diffusereality

cat can do - M SERIES VOL.2 [Vinyl]

Artist: Farron
Title: 'Dynamo Redo'
Label: Shaw Cuts
Cat. #: SCDEF01
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release: 1st March,​ ​2024
Pre order: https://shawcuts.bandcamp.com/album/tessen

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Farron' gem on 'Shaw Cuts'.
Tessen were folding fans with concealed outer spokes made of heavy iron plates. 
Some swordsmanship schools provided training of the tessen as a weapon. 
Besides using the razor-sharp spokes as an attacking tool, the tessen was also used as a throwing weapon, for fending off knives and darts and as a swimming aid. 
Samurai could also secretly take them to places where overt weapons were not allowed.

@farron
@shaw-cuts

Tessen

Premiere: Farron - Dynamo Redo [Shaw Cuts]

Love Is Destructive

Butterfly effect

Flör - Obfuscate

#hardtechno #dark #rave #rock #melodic #trap #hardbass #techno #trending #edm #dubstep #guitar

Alone in the DARK Tech

KR/LF Records Page: https://krlf.bandcamp.com

KR/LF Records is a platform for radical technologic beats founded by Kill Ref in 2016.

Kill Ref booking: spaziozero.booking@electrolab.it

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