jeff mills @ the best, opening track

[M_Mittendorff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8xBcQYOPw

anybody for the first track??
also the second track title would be nice!!

[zb]

First track sounds like Steve Reich but I can't quite place it, I'll look through Music for 18 Musicians and see if its that.

[md]

It's nothing that Steve Reich has released. It sounds nothing like Steve Reich anyway (arpeggios ≠ Steve Reich). It sounds more like something that would appear in an annoying TV advert where it's selling you some kind of random inspiration to "be better" and which you can see 30 times without ever catching on what the product is they're selling (a drink, a car, an insurance product?).

No idea on the second track either.

[S-BLOK]

Its this:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XeJePIz5U

And its bloody awful!

[zb]

It's nothing that Steve Reich has released. It sounds nothing like Steve Reich anyway (arpeggios ≠ Steve Reich). It sounds more like something that would appear in an annoying TV advert where it's selling you some kind of random inspiration to "be better" and which you can see 30 times without ever catching on what the product is they're selling (a drink, a car, an insurance product?).

No idea on the second track either.

I've found the track I had in mind, it was on the Steve Reich remixed album - Piano Phase (D*Note's Phased & Konfused Mix), but it aint that (I also see its now been identified).

Its this:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XeJePIz5U

And its bloody awful!

Fucking hell, I honestly didn't think the short clip sounded too bad on the Mills vid, but its definitely that track in the vid you posted and its fucking pish. Did Mills really play that? Or is that him just piling on after some "intermission" musak?

[Aphelion]

at best, he's nicked the riff and done something to it.....what tripe.

[M_Mittendorff]

at best, he's nicked the riff and done something to it.....what tripe.

in fact just found out that the track mills plays here is another track from igrosso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dOxZd33b6M

it's less awfull but still has a cheesy euro elctro house trash beat in it.

can't help it and i know i won't make more friends saying it, but the way mills uses it in the video, i do like it

[mezerik]

Typical bullshit youtube comments below. I fucking hate youtube community... and hate is a strong word but yes I do. Should call it flam tube. The amount of kids on there talking dog turd.

Yeah and this is a turd of a track IMO. Typical euro house nonsense. Jeff should know better but he has far from impressed me this side of 2000. It's a shame but the sad fact is that the old heads are selling out.

[Aphelion]

Jeff should know better but he has far from impressed me this side of 2000. It's a shame but the sad fact is that the old heads are selling out.

You did say you haven't been out in three years.
I hear he smashed it at Leeds (@ Mint??) recently and stuff like "The Trip" and "The Sleeper Wakes" look really interesting - though annoyingly, these concepts are not really being showcased here but in places like Japan, Sonar. Perhaps it's a symptom of the scene in the UK, I don't know. As for selling out, although I said it was tripe, I think it's hard to say for sure when listening to a clip from YouTube out of context. With no idea what came before it, after it, and whether he just played the riff or not, I'm gonna take back my initial assessment and give him the benefit of the doubt.

[md]

can't help it and i know i won't make more friends saying it, but the way mills uses it in the video, i do like it

He does that. Ever heard the full version of Wicked Wipe "Rok Da House" which he played on the Liquid Room mix? Utterly generic dull as fuck garbage. But he made it exciting (he also only played about 5% of the track).

[mezerik]

One of the reasons i haven't been out in 3 years is that i got sick of going to nights only to see (for example) Jeff Mills play 3 hours of shit house music. When he smashes it then he is second to none but it seems these days most of the old Detroit DJ's are thinking about their pensions and not about blowing peoples socks off on the dancefloor. Or am I just getting old.

[thoth]

Im honestly in disbelief that jeff mills would play that..nooooooooo!!!

[Martin D]

I'm not that surprised, the only places that can pay these guys now are the more commercial clubs, which have a different crowd.

[Aphelion]

Is Slam's party commerical then?
To suggest Mills panders to a crowd is inaccurate, if that was the case he'd be playing looped up bongo bongo trash everywhere, and he's not.

[Martin D]

Is Slam's party commerical then?

What's that got to do with this conversation?

[Aphelion]

Is Slam's party commerical then?

What's that got to do with this conversation?

the only places that can pay these guys now are the more commercial clubs, which have a different crowd.

26.Mar.10 - Pressure @ The Arches - Glasgow / Scotland

[Martin D]

Yes, the Arches is more commercial and has a very different crowd to say the Sub Club that said there are more techno heads per square mile in Glasgow than most cities.

[Aphelion]

Glasgow is my favourite place to play, period.

[Martin D]

Glasgow is my favourite place to play, period.

Must say we love it to, played some great gigs there and there's techno non-stop up there - love it but would take the Sub over the Arches any day of the week.

[Kenny]

This thread is hilarious. He maybe plays one shit track - who says that it isn't the last track of the warm up dj btw, he only seems to be taking over there - and he's a sell out/ passed it/pandering to big clubs. I've said this time and time again but I saw him over demf last year and it was one of the best techno sets I've ever heard anyone play. Mate was at his NYE gig in Tokyo and said it was fantastic too. There did seem to be a time a few years ago where he was getting formulaic and lazy but this seems to have changed now.

[comin'fromthaD(ublin)]

This thread is hilarious. He maybe plays one shit track - who says that it isn't the last track of the warm up dj btw, he only seems to be taking over there - and he's a sell out/ passed it/pandering to big clubs. I've said this time and time again but I saw him over demf last year and it was one of the best techno sets I've ever heard anyone play. Mate was at his NYE gig in Tokyo and said it was fantastic too. There did seem to be a time a few years ago where he was getting formulaic and lazy but this seems to have changed now.

there's some clips of the NYE gig up on youtube, it's pretty weird and hard to figure out what he's actually doing. he just seems to be kneeling down on the stage messing with some stuff in the floor, the music is really heavy though

[brogy]

hello.im from zagreb,croatia where is this shit club called best.i was on this party,and this first track is not played by jeff mills.awful warm up dj played this bullshit track.
mills was play one of the best set i heard from him in zagreb pure detroit

[thoth]

its all about this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph-MUW1iOEI

[the countach]

this is how i like to think of jeff mills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPvLjys_8qM

does anyone know this track on here?

[md]

It's "The Bells", with X-102 "OBX-A" on UR-19.5 mixing in over the top.