Jeff Mills – Choice
On behalf of our friends at Azuli we have the pleasure of delivering you a further choice selection, taken from their latest compilation release, Jeff Mills – “Choice – A Collection of Classics”.
Snatching the best 45 second segments of records at breakneck speed, Mills slender hands flicker atop mixer’s consoles at synapse pulsing speed, causing untold waves of euphoria across the globe and often in front of 1, 000s and 1,000s of people. In fact it would be impossible not to talk about the man in little more than clich?d superlatives. It would be suffice to say that as both an artist and a DJ Mills is unassailable and in a league of his own. If Mills played golf he’d be Tiger Woods. If he chanced his arm at racing motors then Schumacher would be choking on his fumes. Yet Mills remains as driven today as the first time he had a go on his older brother record decks. His seemingly unquenchable thirst to push forward as an artist, deejay, composer, record label manager and conceptualist are the result of a punishing schedule that few could keep up with, let alone maintain. And still he continues to pursue the musical dream within, travelling the world, producing, creating, deejaying and raising the stakes. Revered and respected by his peers, clubbers and music lovers alike he has made the dance an artform. A means of intellectual expression as well as an elevated rush of bassline reaction. From party loving hedonists to pontificating theorists, Mills communicates from the dancefloor to the art gallery at the flick of a switch.
For all his slight frame, Jeff Mills remains a giant amongst his musical contemporaries. His name on a flyer causes feverish excitement and queues around the block, his lightening reflexes and three deck wizardry have left the world’s dancefloors breathless and his countless productions continue to push the boundaries of electronic music as if re-inventing the wheel was bottom-line standard. For many his name is a guarantee of unparalleled excellence and techno incarnate. Jeff Mills equals techno. Techno equals Jeff Mills. As co-founder of seminal Detroit outfit Underground Resistance, Mills set the benchmark in sonic assault conceptualism and punishing electronic body music and continues to re-shape it through the future thinking minimal, experimental and dancefloor looped expression of his Axis, Purpose Maker and Tomorrow labels.
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Artist: Slick
Song Title: Space Bass
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Artist: Telex
Song Title: Moskow Diskow
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Artist: Florence
Song Title: Analogue Expressions
Many thanks to ‘Azuli Records’ for supplying this special feature. For more information checkout http://www.azuli.com/
- Jeff Mills – Choice
- by Azuli Records
- Published on July 1st, 2004
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