Silent Servant ( John Mendez aka Jasper ) is certainly no stranger to the minimal scene. Back in 1997 when most of the current crop of Berlin trendies were still in short trousers, he was already pushing the sound with his Cytrax & Delay labels, and he has continued to shape his productions based upon the same ethics of space and texture. Here, with his second release on the increasingly popular Sandwell District label, he gives two more tracks that have the crunch of techno at their heart, but with a wash of dub to soften the machine edge somewhat. Still, this release is altogether spikier and harsher than much of the dub-techno scene - Mendez evidently has a different definition of the term "chilled" to most of his contemporaries...
