Jeff Mills: The Exhibitionist

There WAS this, but it's a bit half-assed:

Ambient techno trainspotting (Jeff Mills / unknown)

'The Bells' innit?

Haven't heard it, i'm a bit wary about another Mills mixcd, there's some other stuff that has priority (new Pokerflat compilation, Luciano album) but it probably will end up in my collection. So it's a separate album/DVD?

lukas, i saw jeff mills here in london on saturday night and it was barnstorming, a great night (it did help that it was a massive venue, packed out, electric atmosphere, dont know if it will be the same in LA), but he certainly hadnt dropped off on saturday night

(sorry)

mills mix cd's never make sense to me because he has no ability to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, which is fine live, but doesnt make me want to put it on much at home.

I'd like to hear it out, maybe I don't like techno enough for hearing it at home I guess. Or that kind of techno.

I don't feel like flinging kitchen utensils.

Strongo, you need listen to Mills loudly when you are driving down the freeway on a nasty gray day.

I am now pogo'ing!

we used to listen to the liquid room mix to get psyched when we'd have to go to parties in unfamiliar/lame neighborhoods. (being good friends with a mobile dj can be fun, but more often than not - it's not!)

This will probably be pretty good though.

Haven't heard Exhibitionist but The Extremist makes me want to learn to drive so it can be driving music.

And this is a BAD THING?!

I'm going to do an advertising major.

http://distefano.com/GRAPHICS/homepic6.jpg

i am excited to hear this. i havent heard all of metropolis but some of the tracks are amazing. i have 2 of the "every dog" packs on vinyl (gold and silver... is there another?) and they dont amaze as much as "praefecture" but are more consistent i imagine.

it seems wrong somehow not to be in a dingy warehouse

(x-post AG)

Strongo in not being agorophobic and getting buff at the same time Shockah!

(X-post Senior Goatington)

There has been talk about the Metropolis dvd for awhile now and I will believe it when I see it. I actually saw the edit at a screening at the Submerge building with Jeff Mills doing a Q&A session after the screening. It is not the full version of the film, it is actually an edit of the original with additional cuts and digital effects. Don't expect a full version of Metropolis with a Mills soundtrack that is sync'ed to the screen action. The music was composed independently of the video and does not directly corespond to the film. It was kind of cool, but not as cool as you would expect.

Meeting Jeff Mills and having a discussion with him after the film was absolutely fantastic. My whole understanding of techno changed when I met him. It wasn't that he set me staight on history or played me these rosetta stone dance records. It was just his attitude and demeanor that put those records into context for me. On the Derrick May thread everybody dogged me out for saying that you cannot understand Detroit techno unless you have come here, and this was exactly the experience I was referring to. Being in the situation and speaking with him about his music completely changed my view of his work.

(x-post ryan)

Fucking yeah, Gareth! There is something inherently wrong with going to a Mills gig and being all VIP like you are in some bling rap video. Being all P. diddy at a techno gig is so not futuristic.

(x-post you know who...)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

Thanks for the heads-up, Martian!

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD

Jeff Mills & Montpellier Philarmonic Orchestra - Blue Potential
Tresor 28 April 2006

its rubbish:(:(:(:(

Following-up his incredibly good "Contact Special" with yet another full-length excursion available only as a Limited Japanese import, Jeff Mills seems to have hit his stride with "One Man Spaceship", for our money one of his finest, most relevant releases to date. Positioning himself at some kind of majestic axis-point that takes in the finest aspects of classic Sahko minimalism, the more recent percussive variations of Sleeparchive and the peerless reductions of classic Rob Hood, Mills has here delivered an arrangement of minimal techno that's about as far removed from the more recent European "minimal" crop as can be, and the results are just incredible! Mills' fascination with Japanese culture and Sci-Fi lends the material here much of its narrative core, as well as an underlying aural theme, but more than anything else its the fact that Mills has managed to keep himself so brilliantly ahead of the curve that makes this album so wondrous and engrossing. Awesome!

Japanese-only cd compilation of the hugely limited 7” series released by Mills over the last 12 months. The 7” format has often had a strange impact on producers (perhaps it’s the need to create music that has to somehow stand on its own, striving for individuality, accessability and all within the parameters and time constraints offered by the limited surface area) - and despite the more anonymous nature of the genre, the format has willed Mills into producing some of his most advanced, layered and inspired material in what has been a long and illustrious career. These sets of 7”s (released in 3 groups of triple 7”s and only available at Axis events around the world and a very small number of outlets) amount to 18 tracks that ooze an analogue warmth and mastery of minimalism that stand as a masterclass for anyone dipping their toes into the genre. Combined with the textured melodicism and soundscaping most recently evidenced on the brilliant Metropolis and Three Ages releases, “Contact Special” for me somehow manages to play as the most rounded, complete and utterly absorbing full-length ever released by this master producer. This album will extend the narrative into an arena well connected with Techno’s past and brilliantly striding into it’s future. Highly Recomended.

^^ so are these any good or what

HELLO?

will buy

hello??

heard them last year, it was okay, not mindblowing.. sort of hard to remember subtle really (moreso than the "every dog.." stuff). sounded fantastic, but not much more than good sound design (yes, prob. misusing that term I know...) in the end.

subtle is a good word. the drums are not foregrounded. i hope the rediscovery of deep house and techno sounds does not pass this guy up because he is still making brilliant and rigorous music that is all his own and has all of the sound elements that are reemerging as the popular choice.

i am imagining the new material as a more concise, more percussive version of the "relevee" sound.

i know that's a weird analogy but there's definitely something tangerine dream-ish about the "metropolis" material and i'd that things like "contact special" were playing that up.

"analogue warmth and mastery of minimalism" <-- see the delia and gavin liveset called "and did we mention our disco"

Whatever happened to Susan Douglas? She was crazy.

i don't think that's a weird analogy at all. it seems a little left field, but they both have that space thing going on (for lack of more eloquent words at the moment). contact special is less melodramatic and more techno than metropolis. he keeps on getting more and more refined. i will hunt down that live set.

the dettman and klock album on ostgut ton has a really strong millsian vibe, albeit at slower tempos

wow, did you know he owns a store in chicago?

http://www.gammaplayer.com

^^ someone pls ID the site music

http://blog.excite.co.jp/jeff05

oh shit all the postings on that blog are two years old. i used to live a block away from his shop (many years ago).

'the exhibitionist': part one - two - three - four - five

^ thank u

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WESBdvsWM0k&feature=related";>metal acetates!</a>

as mentioned on <a href="loudest band you've ever seen;>this thread</a>

dammit

well you get the idea

http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/8A7DB015D6F71FF3C12574C0005075B1?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.2.2&L=2&form=AvenirCategorie

manuel's link (for those who didn't click: mills' debut in belgium, 1993) - just immense. what on earth does he drop at 5:02?

'Changes of Life' from Waveform Transmissions 1. Love it.

Anyone know what the first track on the live recording of Jeff Mills vs Dave Clarke Live at Rave City 94 mix that you can get easily enough, such as here after the initial bleepy part.

step to enchantment (stringent) from here:
http://www.discogs.com/release/2231

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the wire have put up the interview transcript from last month's cover story.

lollllllllllll

that warm (fifth?) synth actually sounds better than the piano sound on the original

opinions on the Something In The Sky series? sixth installment just came out. nothing unexpected, just cool subtle little DJ tools in an Axis vein. I think its been pretty great so far, nobody does diamond cut tunnel-vision techno quite like Mills

cool label art and concept but sounds kind of ... pedestrian to my ears vis-a-vis, say, milton bradley

i checked out back around "contact special" and when he started selling $80 t-shirts and axis skateboards

Six sets by The Wizard from the 80's:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2012/03/download-early-dj-mixes-jeff-mil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+xlr8rnews+%28XLR8R+News+%26+Features%29

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3388452-1328462057.jpeg

this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCVd2dFlE8

lol

He played at the Barbican last night with a full symphony orchestra and it was astonishing. Focussed on the more melodic parts of his catalogue, with virtually no electronic elements at all, Mills at the side behind a drum machine and the orchestra's percussion section going mental.

I really wasn't sure if it would work but it really did - it would have been so easy to just plump for rudimentary arrangements but the orchestra was really used to its full potential. Actual bells for The Bells, obviously, people went apeshit for that, I looked down from the balcony and could just see this whole concert hall raving. Plus they encored with a version of Ashford & Simpson's Bourgie Bourgie.

Also apparently there's an Exhibitionist 2? I missed that altogether.

Plus they encored with a version of Ashford & Simpson's Bougie Bourgie

!!!!!!!!!!!!! x 1,000,000