Not sure if this has been mentioned, (I'm sure it has somewhere) as I've been off the list for some time and have only just resubscribed, but Mills was awesome at Sonar. Not perhaps particularly from a musical perspective, but in a visual sense.
I'm not sure how to articulate it properly, but there was a sense of him being a "popstar" - the dry ice, the lighting etc - at one point I almost expected him to materialise Star Trek-like behind the decks. There's an aspect of the popstar thing that, if done properly, takes it to the next level. It was glamorous, professional and v.exciting. I'd be the first to admit that the music wasn't of the futuristic calibre that we might expect of some other DJs out there, but to do that sort of thing with the VJ visuals, 3 decks, and yet retain the sound of futuristic minimal techno to a crowd of probably 20,000 of more without resorting to anthemic crowdpleasers (The Bells, The Robots and I feel Love aside) remains breathtaking. People may berate Mills for many of these things, like his reported prima donna tendencies and vast fees, but when you do it on the big stage like that, then those are but small quibbles. Toby www.bleep43.com
