Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay 30th July 2019

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IN FOCUS: ROY MONTGOMERY

New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery's music was once described by NPR journalist Lars Gotrich as "swimming through phantoms" – it may sound like an overwrought analogy at first, but simply spend half an hour enveloped in Montgomery's tones, and you'll understand. Originally a part of Pin Group in the 1980s, releasing Joy Division-indebted post-punk on the revered Wellington label Flying Nun records, Montgomery eventually unmoored himself from the strictures of verse-chorus-verse songwriting, and other musicians entirely, composing drifting, gauzy guitar instrumentals that channeled his own personal grief and loneliness into a seductively baleful magic.

UNDERGROUND & BLACK W/ ASH LAURYN

Self proclaimed “Underground and Black”, Detroit native Ash Lauryn leads her musical charge with a candid love for the historical roots of dance music, and the power of reclamation in modern day America.

Techno Synth Pop Industrial Minimal Synth

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.

Tracklist

The PoemsThe Poems
Achieving Unity
Mueran HumanosMueran Humanos
Los Problemas del Futuro / Problems of The Future
TodoTodoTodoTodo
Auto Gas ( Luis Costa Edit )

In Trance 95In Trance 95
Exoplanet
JuneJune
A1 Silver Demon
NauseaNausea
No Conversation
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The PoemsThe Poems
B1 & B2 Achieving Unity
Soft CellSoft Cell
The Girl With The Patent Leather Face
MinistryMinistry
Same Old Madness (1982 Demo)
Buzz KullBuzz Kull
Destination
Savage GroundsSavage Grounds
End Of Pain
Amato, Amato, AdrianiAdriani
Falling Inside
Alessandro AdrianiAlessandro Adriani
Ritorno Alla Vita Corporea
Die Krupps Featuring Nitzter EbbDie Krupps Featuring Nitzter Ebb
True Work Mix
Daniel HoltDaniel Holt
Disassembled Self
PsychePsyche
From Beyond
M.W. CutsM.W. Cuts
Das Geschwader
Diseño CorbusierDiseño Corbusier
Golpe De Amistad
DJ SkullDJ Skull
Don't Stop The Beat
ERPERP
Noetic
Anne ClarkAnne Clark
Sleeper In Metropolis (Short Cut)
DJ KiDJ Ki
Erase The Time
ZawidehZawideh
Newton's Sleep
Zeit EchoZeit Echo feat. Lidia FialaLidia Fiala (Mick WillsMick Wills mix)
Secretary (Mick Wills Cut)
TanzkonsolTanzkonsol
Drag
PsychePsyche
Unveiling The Secret
Cabaret VoltaireCabaret Voltaire
I Want You
Pete Smith & Jon TyePete Smith & Jon Tye
Mlo > Spike