Well, I never thought this was possible, but reading your mail just made me physically sick.
I could comment on every single sentence, but I won't. I'm just too upset. If what you are writing are actually truly the things that are going on in Mr. Mills mind, I will never want anything to do with him ever again. What an arrogant elitist artsy fartsy wannabe prick! I sincerely hope Jeff übermensch Mills will come to his senses soon enough. Or that this is all not true of course. Joost > -----Original Message----- > From: Katrin Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 15 januari 2004 17:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: (313) Jeff "Milestone" Mills > > > When I met Jeff, he was a very nice caring person who was > deeply concerned about the direction Techno was taking in > Germany (!). He felt that he and Dimitri Hegemann from Tresor > did a bad job back in the early Nineties because he pleaded > guilty for conditioning people to consume Techno in dark > boxes full of fog and strobes and didn't consider making it > nicer for girls (which is, in his opinion, the reason why > there are not so many girls embracing Techno)... > > We had a really long discussion and he admitted that he > sometimes feels really removed from his audience. He said > he'd never consume drugs because he would hate to put his > company - and the people working for him - at risk... > > I don't think he is greedy... I think he is striving to be a > real "artist", > sound- and concept-wise, that is accepted by "educated" > people. This is, in my opinion, the reason, why he tries to > employ these pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-philosophical > thoughts on his sleeves written in bad English (which of > course, are more expensive to make). Although he has done > Metropolis and a lot of groundbreaking other projects, he is > not really really accepted in the realms of high art, > especially not in North America where a Techno artist would > never reach the status of social acceptance he longs for. In > Europe and Japan, people roll out the red carpet... here, he > is the person who single-handedly established Techno in > Berlin (well, at least that's what Dimi and Jeff both want to > believe - themselves - and which is impossible to prove or disprove). > > I guess the things I just mentioned are integral parts of his > personality and that might explain why he tries to make his > label a sought-after commodity rather than being down with > the locals. Drug-mongering simple minds are just not his > thang as he was working hard enough to transcend this stage > of low human existance and I think he likes to see himself as > a man of class and style - certainly the way he dresses and > the hotels he chooses. > > Okay, that was the psychological analysis from da Kat :) who > sat on the mat and is a big fan of Jeff as a human. I > wouldn't buy See The Light but I certainly would buy the flip > flips in his shop (and even the Axis beach > towel) if I had the money spare. > > I love supporting people... > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: > Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2004 16:03 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: (313) axis > > > > > >But what if he and others in his position could take it further than > >that! > > >Galvanize this community through festivals (lukewarm overall), > >seminars, clubs (gasp!), and the development of new players in the > >game. > > > Uh, yeah - he does all of this. It's called Musik und > Machine. http://www.musikundmaschine.com/index_flash.html > > not many other individual artists have done this so I think > Jeff is actually on the forefront of doing exactly what > you're asking him to do. > > > MEK > >
