Territories: World excl. UK + North America

FORMAT: 12" 180g vinyl, generic sleeve, dl card

TRACKLIST
1. / A1 M-87 04:02
2. / A2 M-90 04:32
3. / B1 M-99 06:08
4. / B2 M-00 04:45


Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label’s art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism.

But Mendez’s relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant’s latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him.

This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez’s memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading. More

- First release on the new imprint of Richie Hawtin “From Our Minds”
- Recycled Vinyl, 100% recycled 250gsm cardboard with plant based inks.

Genre: Techno

Tracklist 12":
1. Richie Hawtin – Time Warps (16:38)
2. Richie Hawtin – Time Stands Still (16:38)

Short Info:
Richie Hawtin today releases ‘Time Warps’, his first dancefloor focused EP since ‘Minus Orange’ in 1999. This is
the first release on a new extension of Hawtin’s iconic Plus 8 label, From Our Minds (FOM1).
Few can match Richie Hawtin’s contribution to techno over the last three decades. A restless pioneer, the
Canadian artist’s importance as a producer, which includes music made under aliases like Plastikman and F.U.S.E,
is matched by his influence as a curator for iconic labels like M_nus, Plus 8 and Probe. Now, through a pair of
brand new, long-form club tracks, recorded in lockdown and boasting a combined length of over 30 minutes,
‘Time Warps’ channels the blurred, stretched perception of time that has been so characteristic of life in
2020.With constantly evolving, precision engineered loops delivered at a pulse-raising tempo, patient pacing and
a seamless yet unpredictable progression, the title track is a lesson in building the kind of mesmeric
dancefloor moments synonymous with the producer’s name. The alternative mix 'Time Stands Still’ takes a
radically different approach, with stretches of ominous ambience that manage to slowly dial up rather than
suppress the tension, deferring release until the perfect moment. A statement of intent on a new imprint, and a
long-awaited return.

Vital Sales Points:
- Recycled Vinyl, 100% recycled 250gsm cardboard with plant based inks.
- by the Deepgrooves Vinyl Pressing Plant in the Netherlands, ‘the greenest vinyl - pressing
plant on this planet’.
- Premiere by Pete Tong - Time Warps (BBC Radio 1)
- Premiere by Nemone - Time Stands Still in full (BBC Six Music)
- Video Exclusive – Time Warps – HATE on Youtube
- First release on the new imprint of Richie Hawtin “From Our Minds” More