Comments on: Jeff Mills: In Detroit, he’s still The Wizard

By: cz

cz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:39:47 +0000

yeah, i really don’t know what to say about this. i’ve heard scores if not hundreds of live hard techno sets since i started going to parties in the early nineties, and this was hands down the greatest set of similar style. maybe he plays the same set in different towns, but so what? he KILLED it in detroit. and on top of his records and cds i’ve never heard a 909 sound like that. super creative.

By: DjRoCutz74

DjRoCutz74 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:52:27 +0000

The Wizard had the best mixes on the radio in the 80′s and 90′s.

By: gmos

gmos — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:22:18 +0000

oops, ignore that, it’s a reply to another thread

By: gmos

gmos — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:59:52 +0000

“i think there’s a distinct difference between someone looking back over a completed portion of music history and making sense of it all and trying to force a narrative on music’s evolution as it is happening.”

100% agree with this. we need to remember that in the past when House or Techno was blowing up these were new genres/styles that had been in gestation for a few years, that were a direct result of local social and cultural phenomena. so by the time articles started being written about them as distinct new genres/styles there was a narrative there already. now, as you say, it’s seems there’s a forced search for these narratives

I would guess that maybe even some of the writers you’re talking about finally got bored of the berlin-centric-mnml-narrative and are simply looking for new inspiration.

By: detroitio

detroitio — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:25:32 +0000

Since significantly more than half of the tracks Mills played were likely his own unreleased material, I congratulate hyperbole’s friend’s great memory for track ids.

Can’t help him with the jadedness though, he’ll have to work on that himself.

By: hyperbole?

hyperbole? — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:13:04 +0000

Ignore the comment above, it makes me look very ESL…

It should read:

My friend stated that Mills’ performance was “ok” and simply a rehashing of his Dec ’08 performance at Smartbar in Chicago.

Don’t believe the hype maybe?

By: hyperbole?

hyperbole? — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:09:02 +0000

My friend stated that Mills performance was “ok” and simply a rehashing of his last performance that he did at Smartbar in Chicago.

Don’t believe the hype?

By: detroitio

detroitio — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:17:26 +0000

one can only hope…

By: gmos

gmos — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:34:13 +0000

hoping this set will make its way onto the internets soon

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:01:49 +0000

This set was absolutely amazing. There was very little I recognised from it, and I suspect a lot of it is unreleased. He really turned my head inside out throughout the set. Not the most danceable sets of techno I’ve heard but certainly one of the most intense and enjoyable.