…featuring the original 8 tracks plus 8 bonus tracks, including demos and alternate mixes.
Before the exalted techno collective Sandwell District reconvened to make their first album in over a decade, the group’s backbone, John Juan Mendez, AKA Silent Servant, had already left a distinct imprint on underground music. In the Los Angeles techno scene, Mendez’s fingerprints were everywhere. He was the label boss of Jealous God, a co-founder of the darkwave band Tropic of Cancer, a visual artist, a DJ and a visionary producer. He helped mould the icy, psychedelic identity of Sandwell District, whose steely techno tendrils transformed dance floors across the Atlantic by melding the precise ferocity of Berlin and Birmingham techno with the grit…