Jeff Mills - "The Blue Potential" - CD/DVD

[conflict]

Hello from flight 1435 Air France. I'm flying somewhere over West Germany on route to Paris.
Today is the day of the completion of studio recording of the forthcoming DVD/CD "The Blue Potential". It's a collaboration project that originates from a live outdoor performance that took place in Montpellier, France at the historic site, Pont Du Gard in July of 2005.

At this performance, the attendance was 10,000+ people. It was the first for me to perform "live" outside the few performances of the groups Final Cut in the mid-eighties and Underground Resistance in the early 90's. What the performance consisted of was a philharmonic orchestra of 80 persons, The Montpellier Symphonic Orchestra. Twelve of my compositions were scored to sheet music by a very talented composer and violinist, Thomas Roussel of Paris/Djon.

I selected such tracks as, Gamma Player, The March, 4Art, The Bells, and other releases that I had only released via vinyl 12" disc. I also included 2 tracks from the Underground Resistance catalogue, Amazon and Sonic Destroyer.

After many days of studio recording for this project and listening to the integration, I must truly say that I am deeply convinced that the combination between Classical and Electronic Music is something extraordinary. I won't go into this too much, I don't want to spoil your surprise when you listen to it.
The DVD project is due out sometime in March 2006.

In the next few days, London/Spain/Chicago. Once settled in Chicago, my attention immediately turns to the being with family, office and studio recordings. Between December and January is usually hectic as everyone is in rush to finish the year on a good note. Until then......

Later,
Jeff

[Mindful]

sound as a pound

[marginmaster]

ill look forward to that!

[Dave Elyzium]

niiice - cant wait

[dirty_bass]

Am I the only person who thinks that mills is a pretty good, old DJ, who spouts a lot of intellectual bumf to try to beef up the fact that he is just releasing another record of a 909 beat with some beeps and bell noises over it.

[Dustin Zahn]

Am I the only person who thinks that mills is a pretty good, old DJ, who spouts a lot of intellectual bumf to try to beef up the fact that he is just releasing another record of a 909 beat with some beeps and bell noises over it.

Mills is the man and for many reasons. But yes, sometimes he goes a bit overboard with the intellectual stuff. I don't mind it though because he has many followers that I enjoy watching because they eat the shit up completely and its so funny. But you know...it all goes back to the intellectualize-techno vs. de-intellectualize techno debate. That is why there is always so much drama with the techno community.

I look forward to hearing this though. I'd like to see what they did with his works. He acts like this project is something new, innovative, and amazing...but people have been doing this shit for years.

[djshiva]

i am one of the unwashed masses who actually does quite a bit of self education who thinks it's all a bunch of hooey.

i remember reading one of the blurbs on a record ("the other day ep" was the record), and it was total hoohaa. made no feckin' sense whatsoever (i am a former english major, proofreader/copyeditor and writer; those are my credentials, for whatever its worth). total big word for the sake of big word malarkey.

dope record...totally idiotic pap on the label.

[conflict]

yea i know what you mean

dude, its only a tune haha

[The Overfiend]

I say good for Jeff.
An orchestrah doing your tracks?
I'd be stoked.

[Buttman]

Sounds good!! My number one fantasy is to have an orchestra perform with me.

[Miromiric]

i thought it was lining up 7 asses in a row and dipping in once into each?

[The Overfiend]

Sounds good!! My number one fantasy is to have an orchestra perform with me.

You're fantasy is to turn into a seal and make love to a manatee legally.

[Dave Elyzium]

Sounds good!! My number one fantasy is to have an orchestra perform with me.

You're fantasy is to turn into a seal and make love to a manatee legally.

there is a loop hole in the law...PM me will let you know ;)

[Buttman]

LOL at all three..
Luka: Yes but my sexual and musical fantasies are divided nowadays.

[conflict]

my sexual fantasy involves a climbing frame, monkey wrench, duct tape and an anal clamp

[Buttman]

Been there, done that.

[dirty_bass]

Well, it`s a fun project, but "the bells" is hardly an orchestral track.
Timpany for the kick, cymbals for the hats, maybe a sax for the housey noise, and then some idiot on tubular bells.
I mean, I`m all up for a bit of pretentious artiness, but converting some very simple 909 based tunes into orchestral score? it`s almost a joke.
Writing music for an orchestra is another thing altogether.
He`ll be doing some Jeff Mills and Garth Brooks country and western techno next.
The Bells, western style "yeeeeehaaaaaa ding ding ding ding, boom tish boom tish"

[Alan Oldham]

Am I the only person who thinks that mills is a pretty good, old DJ, who spouts a lot of intellectual bumf to try to beef up the fact that he is just releasing another record of a 909 beat with some beeps and bell noises over it.

When they do orchestral remakes of Dirty Bass tracks let me know.

But oh! It's a joke to do that for 909 based tracks.

Never mind.

[dirty_bass]

Sounds like your are hurt little lamb.

[Alan Oldham]

Sounds like your are hurt little lamb.

No, lost =)