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Millsart | Every Dog Has Its Day

LP, Axis

Tekst: da volgaBabe

Publicatiedatum: 28 juli 2000

The long awaited new Jeff Mills album is finally here. Since most of us had to miss out on the Japanese Axis release "From the 21st", this must be Jeff's first real album with fresh material since the X-103 project, left aside the cd-only release of his Axis and Purposemaker compilations. Six years, according to the man himself, it took him to put a conclusion to the eight radiant pearls that are hidden beneath the golden sleeve. And what the aficionados already suspected for some time, the larger public only since his latest Lifelike-album, is that Jeff Mills, although no longer residing in the Big D, can craft timeless Detroit symphonies like no one else. By the "timeless Detroit symphony"-shit we mean classic cuts like "Strings of life", "Kaotic Harmony", by Derrick May and Carl Craig, "At les" and "Dreamland" or "Suspiria" by Carl Craig, "Powerbass" by Kevin Saunderson, the better portions of Kenny Larkin's discography, the unmoved repetitive qualities of Octave One and Robert Hood, the cosmic visions of Juan Atkins during his Berlin and Belgium periods and the angry, funked up deepness of Mad Mike, together with Mills the originator of Ur's jazzier ep's, more so, even the beautiful spacejazz excursions of Mark and Tom Reload spring to mind when you listen to this meticulously polished gem for the first time. All mentioned influences and many more seem to be contained within this, at times almost floating collection of compositions. Every portion of this longplayer indeed seems to be carefully studied and thought over, lending an almost zen quality to the album. And since there is no titulation whatsoever present on the labels, one is inclined to listen to it as a whole, which in turn increases the labyrinthic feel of the mysterious and outerworldly soundscapes that populate this real first musical wonder of the year copyright. Lyrical words, one might state in riposte, but at the risk of sounding pompous or visionary: this must be the best piece of Detroit Techno that I've heard in 5 years or so. What I mean to say is: You need this record, folks!

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