Of course, Jeff Mills needs no defense. Any musician
with a discography that includes X-103,
Humana, early Underground Resistance,
Cycle 30, and Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
is adequately equipped to fight his own battles.
At least give him the opportunity to speak for
himself --
http://www.phreak.co.uk/haywire/JockeySlut/Mills.html
addendum:
:> I loved this last part; "anti-human music." Brilliant. A new genre -
:> something like mills (hard techno) and cylob's industrial folk songs.
:It's hardly a new genre. Go directly to Merzbow and follow the thread
:back from there. You can hop over to grindcore if you'd like something a
:bit more rhythmic.
Um, but that stuff doesn't _bump_, man...
:Amazingly enough, Mills' stuff is considered dance music by those
:challenged enough to enjoy twitching spastically to a bored drum machine
:for hours.
I dunno, maybe it' s just not explicable to
anyone who hasn't spent 3 hours in a 100-degree
riverfront warehouse having their brain
pureed by a madman jacking in mental
tracks at the rate of 2 a minute. That 4/4 isn't
a crutch, in this context it's the center beam
holding the damned _building_ together.
Mills approach is to work three turntables +
a drum machine in his set. the only way that's
going to work without continuous
trainwreck city is if the tracks he's using
are skeletal. Does this disqualify him
from the IDM club? Does the list
primer have a "Thou shalt employ
polyrhythms" commandment?
:It doesn't surprise me to learn that Mills grew up making
:industrial music. Most of the people floating on that boat much past
:the early 80's should have sunk with it.
In the early 80's Mills was cutting up booty tracks
and prototechno live on the air on WJLB. There
were no leather pants involved (maybe a
few oiled up bikini thongs, perhaps.) He
spent a few months in an industrial band,
the Final Cut. We've all go skeltons in
our closets. :)
-d.w.
ps: I have no problem loving (and seeing the
"intelligence") in both "Spanners" and "Lyot
(Maurizio Mix)" [i.e. BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM...]
I don't see a contradiction, sorry.