Tired of the 'party spiral' of the dance scene, Juan Mendez, aka Silent Servant, has a new motto: 'Life matters'
LOS ANGELES - A few weeks ago, when Juan Mendez returned home from a long weekend playing Berghain, Berlin's famously decadent techno venue, the producer and DJ known as Silent Servant got back to his downtown L.A. apartment and snapped a photo of the sunrise.
Mendez was used to seeing them in his line of work: writing and performing muscular, Gothic electronic music for crowds of leather-clad nightcrawlers.
But this one felt different.
Instead of an ending for a big headlining set - or the start of a jet-lagged hangover - it felt like a new beginning. Mendez, now 41, had decided to put the DJ life to
