Name: Optimistic Decay w/ Silent Servant 280622 by NTS Tuesday in Optimistic Decay
Duration: 2 h 33 s
Description: https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-29th-june-2022

Optimistic Decay

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Finishing the year with loads of energy: it's @julianna_move! From addictive downtempo bass music to shape-shifting (and mind blowing) futuristic electronic, you're in for a treat.  

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Machine with souls.

Promoting cutting edge electronic music for the past 10 years.
Webzine, party, DJ team.

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PHNCST 342 - Julianna

Neptunian Influence, Forty-Nine | Featuring @abnama

Thank you for signing up for aquatics by ābnamā. Class begins when you hit the play button on this mix. Let your instructor take control as she leads you through a water workout in the Great Dark Spot.

ābnamā is one of my favorite selectors and I'm thrilled to feature her as our first guest for 2022. ābnamā is based in Berlin and part of the queer collectives @dumpparty and @climaxberlin. 

| Tracklist |
Baby Ford - Monolense
Kruton - Night Bisquit
Dj Qu - Do This Here
Dosis - Sombras
Steve Kallay vs. Philip Noyce - Termini (Gamble 202 Remix)
Speedy J - The Oil Zone (Human Beings Remix)
Lagowski - Voiceprint (Edit)
The Orientalist - Like Oooh
H - Which Way To Forever (Cyborg Lounge Mix)
Air Liquide - Der Läufer
David Holmes - Demonic Arousal
Aria Rostami - Bolbol
Malaria - Your Turn To Run (Ausser-Atemix)
Yakari & Delano - All The Way
Bandulu - Landfill
Steve Poindexter - U.F.O.
Dj Qu - In Trance
Bandulu - Shroud Pt 2 (Peel Session)
Christian Vogel - Brother Stream
Affie Yusuf - Untitled
ENERE - Poings Invasion
Lagowski - Ac3 Emp Hardened
Astral Body - N'RA

"a can of worms wearing lipstick on the can." Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

NI49 | ābnamā

Guest Mix on CKUT 90.3 FM for the Modular Systems Show!

KROHN / MJOLSNESS - 5th Recording - (Standards & Practices)
THE BLACK DOG - My Brutal Life Of If - (Dust Science Recordings)
DAVID MORLEY & DAVY VANDEGAER - The Why Of The Thing - (Futurepast)
TOPDOWN DIALECTIC - B1 from Vol. 3 - (Peak Oil)
AZU TIWALINE - Tight Wind *feat. Vinna Peyghamy - (Livity Sound)
BAMBOUNOU - Tour - (Whities)
FOREST DRIVE WEST - Drift - (Echocord)
ANDREA PARKER - Melodious Thunk - (Mo Wax)
VC-118A - Serge Extract - (Delsin)
DYL + DB1 - ECOU #2 - (re:st)
ASC - Triton - (Modern Cathedrals)
RVSHES - XIV - (Nullpunkt)
PALEMAN - Mites - (PLMN)
IUEKE - Zonck - (Les Disques De La Bretagne)
IUEKE - Dem A Burning - (Les Disques De La Bretagne)
RIVET - Keloid - (Editions Mego) 
LEMNA - Spinning Dancer - (Delsin Mantis Series)

CKUT 90.3 FM

Modular Systems 2022.04.10

Big excitement this week as we welcome Bintus to the GF series. He runs the lauded Power Vaccuum label founded 10 years ago which has been graced with releases by EDMX, J. Tijn, Objekt, Mark Broom, as well as many others including the raw and uncut acid-based work from himself including classic cust like 'Drink Ye From The Acid Chalice' and 'Advanced Fuel'. Whether it's his more known moniker or his Italo-focussed  Binary Chaffinch, the veteran producter has spread his musical gospel across staple labels such as Killekill, Shipwrec, Bedouin Records, and many others.

@bintus

Galactic Funk Podcast 090 - Bintus

https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-29th-june-2022

Optimistic Decay w/ Silent Servant 280622

https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-27th-july-2022

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Rob Seurat’s live dj set from Tresor’s 31 Festival

Rob Seurat Live at Tresor - Aug 17, 2022

Silent Servant is the primary pseudonym of California electronic artist Juan Mendez, who produces techno with a heavy post-punk/industrial influence. He first began releasing material as Silent Servant during the mid-2000s, when he was a key member of the influential techno collective Sandwell District. Following numerous well-received underground singles, he made a major impact on the techno world with Negative Fascination, his acclaimed 2012 full-length debut. Following Mendez's co-founding of the Jealous God label in 2013, as well as several singles and collaborations with the likes of Marcel Dettmann and Phase Fatale, Silent Servant released his second album, the more overtly EBM-influenced Shadows of Death and Desire, in 2018.  2023 sees Mendez continuing to Play the US and Europe, New releases On L.I.E.S., Tresor and maintaining his sixth year of the Optimistic Decay radio show on NTS. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-18th-october-2023

Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay 181023

Silent Servant is the primary pseudonym of California electronic artist Juan Mendez, who produces techno with a heavy post-punk/industrial influence. He first began releasing material as Silent Servant during the mid-2000s, when he was a key member of the influential techno collective Sandwell District. Following numerous well-received underground singles, he made a major impact on the techno world with Negative Fascination, his acclaimed 2012 full-length debut. Following Mendez's co-founding of the Jealous God label in 2013, as well as several singles and collaborations with the likes of Marcel Dettmann and Phase Fatale, Silent Servant released his second album, the more overtly EBM-influenced Shadows of Death and Desire, in 2018.  2023 sees Mendez continuing to Play the US and Europe, New releases On L.I.E.S., Tresor and maintaining his sixth year of the Optimistic Decay radio show on NTS. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-13th-december-2023

Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay 131223

"I’ve been contacted regarding this mix. It wasn’t recorded at Tresor in 1998 as I and others had assumed, but rather it’s a retrospective mix done in 2010 with what Silent would have played had he played there back in ’98. A mix in the style of if you will. Apologies for the confusion." 
https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-10th-january-2024

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Terra Silvis Operire 

Step by step I crept upon a greener ground
looked around for urban sights or city lights fight the urge to search for words of hurt familiar words I heard in broken towns that had I found I wondered how the place I left behind had kept a space inside my mind

despite the time, despite that I’m not in the city anymore the door I thought was shut for sure inside my head was cracked instead I nearly turned my back but then a man was standing next me I heard a word as sure as death said with soft sincerity

you’re inside the Forest now so go and feel the forest floor these parts are for the hearts that mourn and grieve, the green for those In need the trees and everything was made specifically to be a place of peace a place pause and a place of calm as you go along you way”

fin-ally my feet were free to run and roam home that now I know a woods he shown where grass was grown and where the wind is only blown a gentle breeze between the trees 
A softer green and subtle glow 
A momentary peace I get to know when I’m in forest


You can feel the air 
Begging for you to stop dead in your tears
It whispers, but you sing 
You can feel the air 
Tearing at the skin of your ears 
Addicted to the sting 

It whispers but you sing 
As you run in forest

Cover all the lands in forest
Cover all I am in forest

In Forest

Proper Pull proudly presents: PROPEP002 – this time introducing our more rave-focused side. For this, we invited several friends and producers we admire to create a collection of mutable plains woven from psy, tek and tribe influenced sounds.

Artist: @bratanova
Mastering by @afgangtil
Artwork by instagram.com/diemitdemdoenertanzt

PROPEP002 - Mutable Plains

Bandcamp

bratanova - Introspective [PROPEP002]

The Field Between: Music and Anti-Music

This artistic manifesto explores sound in the liminal space between music and anti-music—a generative field where the "unheard" insists on being felt rather than understood.
Music as Architecture: Music is framed as humanity's system for creating order and meaning from sonic chaos. It organizes, names, and classifies sound, offering maps and directions through auditory experience. Music builds bridges of meaning, structures time into comprehensible sequences, and domesticates temporal flow so it "makes sense." Fundamentally, music expresses gratitude for the recognizable, providing belonging and comfort through shared patterns and familiar structures.

Anti-Music as Invitation: Contrary to negation or rupture, anti-music is a profound expansion of sonic possibility. It doesn't destroy—it invites. This is an invitation to perceive differently, to embrace the unmapped and un-coded as valid artistic territory. Anti-music offers "foreignness not as exile, but as adventure"—a chance to be a stranger in one's own sensory experience. It presents the sublime: beauty in what escapes comprehension, abysses that aren't empty but full of strange possibilities "without baptism." Where music domesticates time, anti-music offers time without domestication. It expresses gratitude for mystery itself.

The Fertile In-Between: The work's core focus is the vibrant field existing between these poles—not a void but a charged space of becoming where the "inaudito" (unheard) insists, overflows, conspires, and expands. This recognition acknowledges that understanding is also limitation; every definition closes secret doors. Each act of comprehension loses infinite other readings.
Intuitive Reconnection: The practice seeks to reconnect with pre-lingual perception—sensing vibrations the body intuits without understanding. "In this not-understanding, I reconnect." This return to the un-codified is the core artistic act.

Unified Philosophy: Music and anti-music aren't opposing forces but symbiotic partners coexisting in the same sonic space. The work celebrates both the understood and its beyond, residing in what anti-music reveals: a "fenda linda"—a beautiful fissure in the fabric of the known, from which new ways of hearing and being emerge.

Ignoto (140 BPM)

Pasiphae's set for Red Light Radio on Dekmantel Festival 2018 early on Saturday, enjoy!

Pasiphae for RLR @ Dekmantel Festival 08 04 2018

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