JEFF MILLS JEFF MILLS BIOGRAPHY

Mills is part of the glorious history of electronic music. Born in June 1963 in Detroit (the historic capital of today’s techno), Jeff has built his early reputa- tion there hosting his own radio show on local WDRQ and WJLB radios. With six shows a week, the young Jeff (under twenty years old at this point) was so talented on the turntables that he was rapidly nicknamed ‘The Wizard’. But it wasn’t until 1988 that Jeff got into music production as Final Cut, which was originally a house duo that soon evolved into a more industrial sound. In 1990, Jeff left Final Cut to found Underground Resistance with Mike Banks and created one of the most mythical of all techno collectives. In 1992 Mills left Detroit for New York and then created his own label, Axis Records. And so he commences his rapid conquest of the global techno planet, thanks to powerful music and a mixing technique as fast as it is ingenious.

This former architecture student is also a film buff, ‘2001, A Space Odyssey’ remains for Mills a model of the total work of art. In 2000, he embarked on the composition of a new score for Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ and admits attempt- ing, by all means possible, to flee his ‘techno wizard’ image to return to his first motivation which feeds off utopia, futuristic thought and a real passion for the worlds and ‘extraordinary scenarios’ of science fiction. A year later, he signs ‘Mono’, a sculpture-installation dedicated to Kubrick’s film, which is exhibited at the Sonar Festival at Barcelona.

In 2005, at the request of MK2 he composes a new soundtrack for ‘Three Ages’, the silent masterpiece by Buster Keaton. In the same year, he remains receptive to new experiences, like the concert alongside the Montpellier National Orches- tra, directed by composer René Koering on the 20th anniversary of Unesco’s classification of the Pont de Gard as part of Humanity’s World Heritage. In 2007, he was invited by the movie director Claire Denis to create the sound environ- ment of the exhibition « Diaspora » at the musée du quai Branly in Paris. That same year, Jeff Mills received the title of « Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres» from the French ministry of Culture.

While DJing at about 100 events a year all around the world, Jeff Mills is involved in numerous projects at this time, including several film soundtracks collaborating with Cinematheque and Cite de la Musique in Paris, the ongoing exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, “Danser Sa Vie”. Cinemix: Jeff Mills re-scores and performs soundtrack live.

Metropolis (1926) Director Fritz Lang @Centre Pompidou - Paris The Cheat (1915) silent Director Cecil B. DeMille film retrospective @Cinematheque de Francaise - Paris Oktober (1917) silent Director Sergy Eisenstein @ Cinematheque de Francaise Fantastic Voyage (1965) w/dialogue Director Robert Fleischer @Cite de la Musique -Paris Woman In The Moon (1929) silent Director Fritz Lang @Cinematheque de Francaise Three Ages (1923) silent Director Buster Keaton @Le Nuit Blanche – Paris Footages of Josephine Baker @Cannes Film Festival – Cannes Something In The Sky film collection by Jeff Mills @Foundation Cartier - Paris

Cinema: Metropolis (soundtrack by Jeff Mills) Pompidou Centre-Paris, ICA-London, etc X-102 Rediscovers The Rings Of Saturn (original film and sound by Jeff Mills/ Mike Banks) Sonar-Barcelona, Cultural Center – Chicago, Le Vilette -Paris

Exhibition: Artworks, installations by Jeff Mills:

Purpose Maker (Photos) / Tresor Gallery, Berlin (1997) London (1998) Mono (Sculpture) / Sonar Festival -Barcelona (2001) Tokyo (2002) Three Ages – Buster Keaton (Video Installations) / “Thank You For The Music” Sketch Gallery -London (2006) African Diaspora (Sound Installations) / “African Diaspora” Musee du Quai Branly - Paris (2008) Critical Arrangements (Video/Sound installations) / “Futurism a Paris” Centre du Pompidou - Paris (2008) Galaxy (Sound Installations) / “Infinite Library” Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles (2009) Danser – Josephine Baker (Video/Sound installatiosn) / “Danser Sa Vie” Centre du Pompidou -Paris (2011) Something Else (Artworks/Video) / Galerie George-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois- Paris (2011) PERFORMANCE PROJECTS:

Sleeper Wakes Performance Running Time: 2 Hours.

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The Sleeper Wakes is a project created by Jeff Mills that focuses on the proactive aspects in Electronic Music. Using the architectural concept of Compression - Release conceptualize by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mills creates a scenario whereabouts he makes a profound gesture through a concept entitled “One Man Spaceship” CD/Events - Womb/Tokyo 2005; an adventurous ap- proach to Electronic Music by applying Classical orchestrations in ways that were uncompromising and without much explanation. Immediately following the debut this release, he chooses to step back and disappear from the Elec- tronic music scene for a scheduled time span of (4) four years 1996 - 2010. In this time, Mills has been constantly creating a new style of music for the next and final phase of the Sleeper Project. Conceptually, he explains that he is now traveling the Universe in search of New Worlds to explore(“Worlds” meaning Sounds in Music). His calculation is that such a extended absence from his long and close relationship with the music audience would create the foundation in which new ideas can be displayed, taking a giant step forward in terms of what the audience would be prepared for. The Trip Performance running time: 1 1/2 hour.

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The artist Jeff Mills presents a totally new project, called THE TRIP. Major figure of techno music and fascinated by science-fiction cinema, Jeff Mills pursues his work on images started in 2000, and offers a sound and image mix of 1 1/2 hours, inviting the audience to a fully sensorial experience. Mixing live more than a sixty of science-fiction movies extracts (from 1920’s to 1970’s), following the same principles than in his musical mixes, Jeff Mills invites us to enter a pulsating atmosphere of chaos and fear of Space Travel and Planetary excursions. The Trip is a strong mental and psychological experience which supposes that you accept to enter a particular time and to lose your marks. It is like a full and dramatic transition which leads to a unknown place, opening to all possible. Projected on a special modified screen, the images interact with an stimulating DJ mix, mixing productions of some of the most innovative Techno Artist and of Jeff Mills’ conceptual productions such as Contact Special, One Man Space, Alpha Centauri along with new productions made specifically for this project. Something In The Sky Performance Running Time: 2 Hours

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A sound and visual DJ performance created and performed by Jeff Mills. He composes and then mixes a Electronic Music soundtrack as backdrop for the various video and photographic accounts of UFO sightings.

Something In The Sky is a sight and sound experience that references the history of Unidentifi ed Flying Objects (UFO) Sightings. It explores the extraordinary as- pects and perspective of unidentifi ed sightings in the United and States and around the World. A multi-segmented program consisting of interviews, US documenta- tion and actual fi lm footage of sightings. Something In The Sky is about us, the human being and our reactions when faced with such occurrences. No one person is excluded from such experiences and we all share this common interest in life beyond our own. The Blue Potential Jeff Mills performs with Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra Performance Running Time: 1 Hour 20 minutes.

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Jeff Mills has created two of the most famous electronic labels, Underground Resistance and Axis. His productions were re scored for an exceptional concert in a site classifi ed as part of World Heritage by UNESCO. For the very fi rst time, this project gathers all his best productions, among which underground techno anthems (The Bells, Amazon, Sonic Destroyer...), extracts from his soundtracks ‘Metropolis’ by Fritz Lang (Entrance to Metropolis...) and ‘Three Ages’ by Buster Keaton (Daylight, Keaton’s Theme...).

Jeff Mills CD ALBUM discography

“Deep In 2 The Cut” Final Cut (Full Effect) 1989 “X-101” X-101 (Tresor) 1991 “Revolution For Change” Underground Resistance (Network) 1992 “Waveform Transmission vol.1 “ (Tresor) 1992 “Atlantis” X-103 (Tresor) 1993 “Waveform Transmission vol.3” (Tresor) 1994 “Mix Up vol.2 Live at Liquid Room” (mix album) (Sony/React) 1995 “The Other Day” (Sony/React/Labels) 1996 “Purpose Maker Compilation” (React/Labels/NEWS/Neuton/Energy/Watts) 1997 “From the 21st” (Sony) 1998 “Lifelike” (Sony/Labels/NEWS) 2000 “Art Of Connecting” (Next Era/Hardware) 2000 “Metropolis” (Tresor) 2000 “Time Machine” (Tomorrow) 2001 “Every Dog Has Its Day CD” (Sony/Labels/NEWS) 2001 “Actual” (AX-009CD) (Axis) 2002 “At First Sight” (Sony/React/NEWS/Energy/Intergroove) 2002 “Medium” (AX-009EF) (Axis) 2003 “Exhibitionist” (Axis/React/NEWS/Sonar) 2004 “Choice” (Azuli) (Jeff Mills selection) 2004 “Three Ages” (MK2) 2004 “Contact Special” (Cisco/Soundscape) 2005 “One Man Spaceship” (Cisco/Soundscape) 2006 “X-102 rediscovers the Rings of Saturn” (Tresor) 2008 “Sleeper Wakes” (Third Ear) 2009 “The Occurrence” (Third Ear) 2010 “The Power” (Axis) 2011 “2087” (Axis) 2011 “Fantastic Voyage” (Axis) 2011 “The Messenger” (Axis) 2012

DVD release: “Exhibitionist” (Axis/React/NEWS/Sonar) 2004 “Three Ages” (MK2) 2004 “The Bells – 10 year anniversary” (Axis) 2006 “Blue Potential” with Monpelier Philharmonic Orchestra (UWe) 2006

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