The Skin Between Us Part 2

by François X

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    Complete edition of The Skin Between Us : includes all five tracks from Part I & II.
    Two sides, one story: tension and clarity pressed into a single 12” record.

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François X closes The Skin Between Us with a second chapter that feels less like a conclusion than a sharpening of intent. Where Part I wrestled with heritage and tension, Part II is about clarity: two tracks that underline his belief in techno as something lived, not abstracted.

Taken together, the diptych is François X’s most personal work to date. It reframes techno not as a detached exercise in form, but as a language of memory and presence, music that belongs to both the body and the self.
As ever, François X’s sound is caught between lineages. Rooted in the legacy of Black American dance music but shaped by the European club experience, it refuses to treat those influences as separate. They echo through each other here, hybrid and inseparable, just as they do in the artist himself.

Part II distills this into two striking statements. Before I Knew The World is immersive and weighty, built on reverberant kicks and deep pads that pull you in like gravity. In Memory Of is more direct: a driving, knight-like piece of techno that balances percussive force with tenderness, offering affirmation rather than confrontation.

More than a release, The Skin Between Us asks what it means to belong to a scene, to a lineage, to a body. François X doesn’t attempt to answer. Instead, he creates presence: techno that remembers, resists, and insists on its own language

The vinyl edition presses both parts into a single object: tension and clarity fused, a reminder that these are not separate states but two faces of the same coin.

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released October 31, 2025

All Tracks Written and Mixed By François X
Mastered By Beau Thomas At Ten Eght Mastering Studios

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XX LAB RECORDS Paris, France

XX LAB is an electronic music label founded in 2021 by François X.
Based in Paris, the label acts as a research platform for independent minded artists whose musical aesthetic is oriented towards avant-garde electronic music.
It will release a mixture of electronic and crossover projects steamed by a pragmatic approach based on utopian socialism and forward thinking principles.
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