Sandwell District - End Beginnings *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 28th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Sandwell District have today announced details of a their
highly anticipated new album ‘End Beginnings’ - out 28 March
via Point of Departure. The groups first music since Juan
Mendez (Silent Servant) tragically passed away in January 2024.
‘End Beginnings’ is a majestic coming together of cinematic
techno and mind-bending dancefloor dynamism; an album that
marries Drexciya’s idea of techno being an act of seditionary
innovation to a sense of unbridled fun, an imperative that
means an awful lot to O’Connor. “Having a good time is pretty
much why you get into it in the first place,” he notes wisely.
“And it is fun. I think we feel a lot more fortunate now,
especially with what happened with Juan. We’re grateful.”
‘End Beginnings’ then is also a moving requiem to a fallen
soldier – Juan Mendez. At the beginning of 2024, Mendez
tragically died just as things were moving in the right direction
for the collective. Mendez’s stunning artwork and visuals were
always a central pillar of Sandwell District; indeed, he was
working on a piece of art entitled ‘End Beginnings’ that was
mooted to be the album cover. That work was never finished,
but O’Connor and Sumner took the title to honour their friend’s
contribution. It remains a fitting tribute to the stop-start nature
of this rebel alliance.
“We were a real gang,” O’Connor reminisces. “We used to
come into town, tear it up and go home. We got banned from
about three airlines for fighting with each other. We used to
turn up at the airport, get hammered and it would go downhill
from there.” No wonder they were described as techno’s
answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by online music organ,
The Quietus. O’Connor laughs when that interpretation is put to
him. “That’s brilliant,” he says. “It’s probably very accurate. As
long as I can be Nash.”

Track list

1. Dreaming

2. Self-Initiate

3. Will You Be Safe?

4. Restless

5. Least Travelled

6. Citrinitas Acid

7. Hidden

8. The Silent Servant

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