SILENT SERVANT | SHADOWS OF DEATH AND DESIRE | DIGI PACK CD

now-legendary producer, dj, and art director juan mendez arguably reset techno at least twice. once with his surreal and europe-by-way-of-la '80s surrealist apocalypse culture aesthetics for sandwell district, and again--as silent servant--with his “jealous god" imprint that captured the youth-driven mutation of crossover electronics and dark parties churning in the american underground, which followed directly in the wake of his game-changing modern classic, 'negative fascination'. mendez has evolved to more aggressive and stripped-down acid punk electro dance attacks on silent servant's equally vital follow-up, 'shadows of death and desire. while many would stall after the success of a now contemporary cult classic, mendez took his time to deliver a more raw--yet refined--brutalism in his second album. the otherworldly guitar feedback of opener "illusion" is violently cut short with a relentless bass sequence erasing any preconceptions of softening with time. stereo-panned dusty snar