Silent Servant Presents: Optimistic Decay 30th May 2023

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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.

Touch and Feel w/ Brian Vidal

Brian Vidal brings a mixing pot of house, garage and skippy breaks directly from NTS' Los Angeles studio.

Electro Techno Acid

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

0:00:08
Chris & CoseyChris & Cosey
Jamming, Tottenham 1982
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Fabio VinuesaFabio Vinuesa
Numbers
0:10:10
Code IndustryCode Industry
Behind The Mirror (Release Of Anguish Mix)

Tevo HowardTevo Howard (TraxxTraxx mix)
Energia Enlightenment (Traxx Re-Creation)
Self Learning SystemSelf Learning System
Deep Sea
Timothy J FairplayTimothy J Fairplay
Off The Rails
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Fear-EFear-E
Watch Your Bassline
LarionovLarionov
One Zero One
Claude YoungClaude Young
In Circles
OrphxOrphx
In The Presence
Silent ServantSilent Servant
Rose Shadows
James RuskinJames Ruskin
From The Ashes 1
AikenAiken
Rhetorical
James RuskinJames Ruskin
From The Ashes 2
Mark BroomMark Broom
100% Juice
Broken English ClubBroken English Club
Grey Sands
Mark BroomMark Broom
I Want
Broken English ClubBroken English Club
SNUB (Club Edit)
D-KnoxD-Knox
Newspeak
SurgeonSurgeon
Masks & Archetypes
DevikorpsDevikorps
Deleted Scenes
X (Ten)X (Ten)
Moralez
DrexciyaDrexciya
Digital Tsunami
Kai Van DongenKai Van Dongen
PseudoRhythm
Mitchell GoorMitchell Goor
The Self Detructive
The Sixteen StepsThe Sixteen Steps
Operation La Mora
Jannik AßfalgJannik Aßfalg
Silent Speaker
Sandwell DistrictSandwell District
Surrender To The Unknown
Hot LizardHot Lizard (Carl CraigCarl Craig mix)
The Theme (Carl Craig Mix)
Baby Ford + EonBaby Ford + Eon
Dead Eye