Via Jeff Mills’ own account, here’s a perfect Monday soundtrack, maybe made even better by sounding like it was mixed onto a cassette tape.
Jeff Mills – Live At The Liquid Room, mixcd, Segment 1, 1996 according to one commenter. (It’s unclear why it’s labeled BBC Essential Mix, except that the rest of this person’s playlist comes from that.) I desperately want to fix some of the phasing issues, but it’s otherwise irresistible.
Apparently, we’re driving through Toronto with this account.
Playlist, all bangers — and really a master class in production and composition, every single one:
Jeff Mills – Utopia
Jeff Mills – The Extremist
Surgeon – Magneze
Joey Beltram – The Start It Up
Millsart – Step To Enchantment (Stringent)
Jeff Mills – Life Cycle
Jeff Mills – The Bells
DJ Funk – Work That Body
DJ Funk – Run (U.K.)
Joe T. Vannelli – Play With The Voice In USA (Joey Beltram Remix)
Wicked Wipe – Rock Da House (Ian Pooley Mix)
Jeff Mills – I9
Jeff Mills – Changes Of Life
Circuit Breaker – Overkill
iO – Eternal Sun
Joey Beltram – Game Form (Robert Armani Remix)
Club MCM – Club MCM (K.A. Happy Mix)
Jeff Mills – AX-009
Surgeon – Move
Traxmen – Wet Floor
Jeff Mills – Detached
Claude Young – Nocturnal
It’s not terribly complex mixing, but it’s so compositional; it respects the structure of the tunes, which just always hits me harder, yet still with fast cuts. And it’s really human mixing; it’s full of feeling. You feel that with the audience. For all the complaints about lack of technique, what often bothers me about a lot of mixing is being a little too mechanical, missing some of the gesture. I’d really rather have something a bit imprecise but more emotional. Less surgica– oh, no, Surgeon is fine.
I mean, you should definitely not attempt to play tracks like “The Bells” out at this point if your names isn’t Jeff Mills, but a lot of this is the music that reminds me why I love techno — you?
I can’t drive anywhere today, so this will do.
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