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Juan Mendez / Silent Servant is someone who I’d refer to as ‘reliable’ in that I’m not waiting painfully for new output, because I know he’s going to deliver it. I had no idea he released an e.p. last year (and on Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. label, too!) and as always it’s a huge go. Optimistic Decay is short and to the point in only three tracks but there’s always something of obvious interest. Fans of Cabaret Voltaire will be delighted to know of Stephen Mallinder’s appearance on the opening track “Cyber Luminescence”, a nervously frantic take on Eighties’ synthpop for the 2020′s with puncturing rhythms, obtuse synth lines, and Mallinder’s stark, dystopian vocals. You could swear that Empirion’s Advanced Technology days completely took over for the mid-track “Raw Optics” because Mendez is at that point of mastery. Closing out the e.p. is “Solitude Illuminated”, which fits the L.I.E.S. ethos constructed of tight, danceable house rhythms while keeping Silent Servant’s dark identity of haze and shadowy darkness. So far, Juan Mendez still has done no wrong.

(Empirion)

Dahinter Das Gesicht is the sturdiest thing on the techno market right now. The entire e.p.’s structure can be flexed to any degree and it will never snap. Synth attacks vibrate, rattle, and hold themselves so well that they never collapse. Think Nitzer Ebb or Empirion with a meaner, darker, hungrier set of teeth but it’s guaranteed just as dizzying, exciting, and with limitless energy. Hold on for your fucking lives.

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