AAAh well ... in my bloodlust for knowledge I came across this (forgive me if it's already been posted):
NEW RELEASE INFORMATION Tresor 155 Artist: Jeff Mills Title: Metropolis Label: Tresor Cat.No: 56155-2 Release: October 2000 Barcode: CD 7 1875 56155 2 2 - 15 exclusive new tracks - Jeff Mills first concept album since Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 (first released in 1994 by Tresor Records / Tresor 29276-2/6) Product Information The Man From Tomorrow returns with a new concept and soundtrack album to Fritz Lang's hugely influential silent film 'Metropolis'. Having just released the 'Every Dog Has it's Day' double-pack on his own Axis imprint, Mills is still travelling the world with his incendiary Techno dj sets but once again surprises with a new turn of hand. This is an ELECTRONIC COMPOSITION concept album. It is purpose-designed to be heard while watching Fritz Langs´ 1926 masterpiece. Mills´ own mastery of the sound of the future excellently and equally matches Langs´ master-vision of the Utopian Dream; narrative, passionate, and timeless. The future of electronic music is now. Listen to it and understand why Jeff Mills is known as the best Techno producer in the world. Introduction by JEFF MILLS: Often, I am inspired to create music soon after watching movies or going to the cinema. The probable cause, my mind being inflicted becomes stimulated not only by the plot but also, intrigued by the method in which the producer choose to present the plot of film to the viewer. Communicating through stories has always been an intricate part of how mankind evolved. By translating and moralizing stories from generation past, the cascading of ethics somehow embed themselves within our subconscious. Thus, creating a platform for individual behavior patterns. In this respect, the architecture of urbanism is the most definitive collaboration of intersecting platforms that we as humans have created. Urbanism, collectively existing in mass or secluding oneself within it? Which ever you believe, urban spree generates opportunity and inspiration. Despair and misfortunate. It is often the catalyst for moral majority persuasion and cause for which most people think catapults right and wrong. Nevertheless, there must be a medium. In 1926, Fritz Lang.'s timeless masterpiece, Metropolis exceeded the laws of morality. With his acute executions of detail and dynamic formation of storytelling, he managed to capture minds and extort acts of passion. Needless to say, his contribution to the advancement of motion pictures was bold enough to create political manifestations of such proportions that the scale of influences have yet to be match by any other film in history. His socialist overtones peered across the line of ethics while at the same time, presented the fruits of capitalism and in their applications. Only by the heart will there be inner peace thus, outer. It seals the fate in this story, a lesson, I hope, should be reissued with time. It is my intention to reintroduce and educate the theories and ideology of Fritz Lang.'s contribution of Metropolis to the cyber-youth of today. Implying the timeless message of solidarity and the romantising of the perfect world. A Utopian Dream. It seemed fitting that this movie, the movie that shaped the young minds in 1926 be reiterated and re-intergrated at this beginning of our new century. We hope through the advance made in technology and the acute sense of futurism by the youth of today, we can capture the minds and expand the imaginations, the ones that will soon forge and form our new world. Jeff Mills --------------- JEFF MILLS: Metropolis NOTES AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
