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Album Review: Spiral Deluxe – The Love Pretender
Demonstrating the poignant power of experience + human connection + innate musicality + operating in the present moment, Jeff Mills’ Spiral Deluxe collective unveil their second album – The Love Pretender. Driven by the free expression and creativity of improvised performance, Spiral Deluxe is an electronic jazz fusion project comprised electronic music visionary Jeff, along …
EP Review: Millsart – Star Child
This is Axis Expressionist series Pt. 7. Imperfections are a natural part of the world, and they can make us beautiful and unique: Nothing and everything is perfect. We can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and still we’re beautiful.” A Star Child is the idea that a person can be incomplete and not self-aware, …
EP Review: Millsart – Powerland
Part 6 in the Axis Expressionist series The relationship between our star, the source that gives us life and the land we occupy during this transcendental process is one of sensitivity and compassion. Topography and rock settlements are positioned as conductive posts of energy. An energy line wrapping around a planet that straddles between …
Album Review: Jeff Mills – The Eyewitness
“Trauma and the shock effect of it – the leftover residue of harsh reality so impactful that it shapes the way you imagine, envision and calculate your position in regard to everything and everyone around you. A new type of psychological radius evolves. Boundaries are reinforced. Relationships are recessed. A damaged brief system float aimlessly. …
Album Review: Jeff Mills – The Trip: Enter The Black Hole
Since the beginning of humanity, man has always wondered about what lies beyond the Stars. The relevance to what and who we are, but also what we will eventually become and where we need to go. And to exercise our minds for such possibilities, the storytelling of impossible adventures can help us with understanding how …
EP Review – Millsart – Neo Tantric Parts
“Rationalizing our place amongst the Stars is a referendum. A mandate in the scale of a space-time continuum, which is a task that might seem infinitely cavernous to most, but a lifelong mandate to others. As nature’s allowance of time just isn’t favorable to an average human lifespan of a 100 years, this task must …
EP Review: Millsart – X-Ray Zulu
The Axis Expressionist Series continues in 2024. For Part 04 ‘X-Rax Zulu’ Jeff Mills went into the studio again and created ‘Just Like A (Vernacular Objects)’, a new mix of ‘Vernacular Objects’ (previously released 2020 only in digital as ‘Every Dog Has Its Day. Vol. 13’) and produced three new tracks exclusively for this vinyl edition. …
EP Review: Millsart – Morning Glory
Axis Expressionist Series A collection of vinyl and limited digital releases, curated by Millsart, an alias of Jeff Mills, of his most eclectic and transcendent compositions that derive from his Every Dog Has Its Day project as well as new unreleased works. Vernacular creations that fall off from the “other side” of the Electronic Music tree, …
Album Review: Moritz von Oswald – Silencio
What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, his latest album for Tresor Records, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept. Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti and Iannis …
EP Review: Blake Reyes – Vernacular
The ‘Axis Jazz’ series continues with Milan based Blake Reyes. The album was recorded in 3 different cities including the legendary “Officine Meccaniche“ studio in Milan (Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Erika Badhu), engineered by Taketo Gohara and with attendance of Jeff Mills during all sessions. The Steinway & Sons Grand Piano recorded for the album …