I agree about the quality but in a funny slight on Mills it is fortunate that he is a futurist as he seems to release tracks that are about five years old anyone.
Nighttime World Part 1 takes the biscuit for me in terms of emotion dripping techno albums, it has a bit of everything too. By the way is it me or does one of the tracks on NW pt1 (I think it is Untitled) have a ghost of PurposeMaker's 'Casa' on it faintly in the background? SM > I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I've really been digging > the CD compilation of the Every Dog Has It's Day 12" It's a curious thing > that worldwide he is way better known as a hard techno DJ than as a producer. > For the thousands of people who have seen him spin but never actually > bought his records "Every Dog Has Its Day" would come as a surprise. Rather > than the banging minimal DJ you'll see in Tokyo or Paris, this work is > resolutely lush and soulful. > > My mom is a composer and a fortune teller who told her that she was > able to heal with her music. 'Every Dog' has that feel for me -- the > message of optimism and positivity in the text on the cover is echoed by > music that is an expression of Mills version of future soul. > > Mills has always been a genre of one -- the Purposemaker records are > a like Bach's Well Tempered Clavier -- an expression of minimalism that > is widely imitated, but renders all such imitations redundant. The > 'Every Dog' tracks turn away from that work back towards more directly > emotional communication. > > For percursors you have to go back to the seminal Detroit techno tracks > which were really a new sort of soul music. To be a futurist is to > be an optimist, and Every Dog Has Its Day embodies that optimism and hope. > It's also the subtlest, most varied and harmonically lush work Mills > has done to date. It's a CD to which people who don't 'get' techno can > relate. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
