On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:24:42PM -0000, Toby Frith wrote: >He was incendiary that night, just like he was in his Golden period of '95 - >'97. Lots of mistakes, but the energy was relentless. Techno by its very >nature is rigid and fixed, and when someone like Mills adds that rough, human >element, it takes it to another level. Hawtin by contrast just seems to be >plotting a linear route.
Yeah, Mills 95! those were the days... Reckon his gig in the July/95 Lost party under some arches. It was damn hot, water was condensing on the vinyl so the DJs could not hold/cue records properly (they actually had to hold the MKII plate!) and the stylus was jumping all the time, so the mix was getting to trainwrecks all the time... I was having fun with it because I could see how good and experienced Mills was, because he could fix the mix/beat matching in miliseconds after a jump, mostly without even cueing or cutting any of the channels... Oh, and he was also DJing with a reel-to-reel that day... Hawtin was playing as well. He was OK, played loads of acid, one of them as Misjah's Access with that endless drum-roll (which Hawtin mixed with a backspining record going faster and faster)... Anyway, I have a theory about Mill's mistakes: Sometimes he does it on purpose. To bring some human element to his sets... From all the sets I heard him play (probably half-a-dozen), those with the more mistakes were the best and/or the parties got the best atmosphere. Just my R$0.02. G -- Guilherme Menegon Arantes, PhD Sao Paulo, Brasil ______________________________________________________
