French techno icon François X is back with the concluding chapter of his deeply personal project on his imprint XX LAB, The Skin Between Us. Following the introspective journey of Part I, The Skin Between Us Part II brings resolution and emotional depth, offering two new tracks that complete this hybrid exploration of heritage, identity, and the language of techno.
“My identity, like my sound, is hybrid. This project is an introspective collage of who I am — shaped by solitude, tension, and the poetry of the night.” — François X
Where the first part explored heritage, tension, and introspection, this second chapter embodies resolution, two new tracks that complete François X’s most personal and hybrid 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.
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
This vinyl edition gathers the entire project : all five tracks from both Part I and Part II pressed into a single 12” record. It represents the full journey of The Skin Between Us: from friction to release, from solitude to resonance.
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Before Part II drops, let’s revisit François X’s introspective The Skin Between Us Part I.
