Jeff Mills - fastest DJ ever?.

shaolinsoul · Post by **shaolinsoul** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:52 pm

Fucking hell this guys mixing at Mach 3 speed!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WESBdvsWM0k

rob_booth · Post by **rob_booth** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:50 am

Millsy's always been known as the 30 second 12"

n012 · Post by **n012** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:14 am

Rob Booth wrote:Millsy's always been known as the 30 second 12"

second that
Mills is mixing tracks faster than the speed of thought

Purpose Maker is one of my favourites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLanIfR13A

chutnut · Post by **chutnut** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:46 am

pity he has so much trouble beatmatching

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:40 pm

chutnut wrote:pity he has so much trouble beatmatching

this
fair enuff he goes thru em fast, but everytime ive seem him live he is mr clang-it-up and uses the eq to hide the gallop.

i wud have said EZ is on a par in terms of pummelling thru tunes and he holds the mix in time too

jafs · Post by **jafs** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:59 pm

chutnut wrote:pity he has so much trouble beatmatching

God this is true, I saw him in january, he started with a beatless spatial intro and brought a first techno track into that like a butcher. But that's not always, hopefully...

fletcher · Post by **fletcher** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:12 pm

He rocked it at glade last summer. He was rattling through them true, I think the size of the main arena hid any feck ups well, sounded fine from where I was wobbling

juliun_c90 · Post by **juliun_c90** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:19 pm

don't watch the beatmatching on mills- he doesn't

shaolinsoul · Post by **shaolinsoul** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:03 pm

Lol..tis true bare mistakes and audible backspins when he does so..

back in his UR mills/hood days he never cued just straight needle dropped, hands flying all over the place from one 12 to the next like some samurai dj. Robert Hood was an MC back then too and Mike Banks on a 303

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But mr Derrick May or Claude Young kills it in dj'ing ability imo.

chutnut · Post by **chutnut** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:35 pm

fletcher wrote:He rocked it at glade last summer. He was rattling through them true, I think the size of the main arena hid any feck ups well, sounded fine from where I was wobbling

yeah to be honest i didnt hear as many clangers at glade as i was expecting, although people standing in different parts of the tent from me said they did

esoundc · Post by **esoundc** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:45 pm

jeff mills is really good trip maker in selections and yes time to time he do not match beats, but he's style is still great. As for mixing cd's like that are classic:
http://www.discogs.com/Jeff-Mills-Live- ... lease/9459

mixing and good journey i can point two names: Laurent Garnier and mr.C. Both of them really know what they are doing.

cooper · Post by **cooper** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:04 pm

shaolinsoul wrote:Derrick May or Claude Young kills it in dj'ing ability imo.

big dezza at plastic people a year ago was one of the best techno sets i've ever heard. really controlling the mood and mixing perfectly.

octave_noize · Post by **octave_noize** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:05 pm

saw jeff mills in the hague a few years ago, and then in amsterdam couple years later. both parties were imence

ginsu · Post by **ginsu** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:27 pm

i remember listening to mills on the radio back in the mid 80s...

he was a turntablist then and would do huge messy collages that sounded sick. alternated with perfectly blended minimal house/techno for hours.

he's one of the *originators* of the blended beat style - that you all do. as an artist if he decides he's not into smooth blends but smashing beats into each other - know that its an artistic choice.

thats the dif between a leader and a follower. he wrote the rules. and continues to write his own

juliun_c90 · Post by **juliun_c90** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:56 pm

not the originator of the style i use: he can't beatmatch.

ginsu · Post by **ginsu** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:57 pm

youre ignorant. i heard him beatmatching in 85/86. he also can blend in cuts on the off beat and all sorts of tricks.

have you heard his compositions? theyre all about asymetrical blending. thats advanced level stylistics that i guess youhavent learned or dont have enough info to appreciate. but the guy is a 10th degree black belt. he's already earned his beat matching merrit badge 20+ years ago - when NOBODY was doing it. not now when absolutely everyone is doing it.

shaolinsoul · Post by **shaolinsoul** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:45 pm

ginsu wrote:youre ignorant. i heard him beatmatching in 85/86. he also can blend in cuts on the off beat and all sorts of tricks.

have you heard his compositions? theyre all about asymetrical blending. thats advanced level stylistics that i guess youhavent learned or dont have enough info to appreciate. but the guy is a 10th degree black belt. he's already earned his beat matching merrit badge 20+ years ago - when NOBODY was doing it. not now when absolutely everyone is doing it.

excellent point, his tunes are disjointed and strange and somehow very complicated/complex in structure in the vein of avant/garde classical music . Lots of strange dissonance and clashing key changes going on and one of the few techno artists who after repeated listens find something new every time especially his newer stuff like Deckard or Time mechanic. He makes very serious techno.

Robert Hood does something similar stripping down the main theme to just the bare elements and evolving the track to a massive climax. No, 3 min breakdowns like dubstep and no 1 min intro's just straight energy all the way through.

He even sampled Chip E - its house on an old purposemaker record and just worked that sample.

I heard he still records on a 909 synced to some some sort of hardware sequencer.

juliun_c90 · Post by **juliun_c90** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:34 pm

don't call me ignorant. you know fuck all about me.

so it's cool to trainwreck 'cos everybody else is beatmatching?

prick.

juliun_c90 · Post by **juliun_c90** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:35 pm

don't call me ignorant. you know fuck all about me.

so it's cool to trainwreck 'cos everybody else is beatmatching?

you think nobody else was beatmatching in 85-86? you need to check up on some history.

prick.

ginsu · Post by **ginsu** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:41 pm

in regards to saying mills cant beatmatch - its not an informed statement.
in fact quite the opposite. so perhaps the word "ignorant" would be accurate.

and i dont need to check up on history. back then 85/86 house was a regional style and RADICAL - completely differant from the funk that was popular at the time. beat matching was unheard of. so when i say nobody - im not saying he invented it. it was extremely rare/new.

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