Jeff Mills on the eclektronik groove

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When Paul and Chris Leath (Leathal) hit us up at KZSU and asked if we would be down for having Jeff Mills out we were honored that they would think of us and ridiculously excited at the possibility. Things have come together and we are super excited to announce that Monday the 14th from 9AM to Noon Jeff Mills will be featured on the Eclektronik Groove, hosted by Holt Sorenson and Jack Wang. You can listen to the show and get more information at: http://hsomusic.com/

Jack will re-broadcast the set on the Big Love show from 3-6pm the same day.

Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long line of Detroit-bred talent to take on an international reputation.

In the 1980s, Mills was an influential radio DJ on WJLB under the pseudonym "The Wizard." Mills' sets were a highlight of the nightly show from "The Electrifying Mojo".

In going on to create his own music Jeff Mills is credited with laying the foundations for the highly influential Detroit Techno collective, Underground Resistance.

Mills would never leave UR officially, but later on he still went his own way. He moved to New York and after a short stay in Berlin (Tresor) ended up in Chicago. There in 1992, with fellow Detroit native Robert Hood, he set up his most important record label, Axis, aiming for a simpler more minimal sound than most of the techno being produced in those years. Later sub-labels were created:Purpose Maker, Tomorrow, and 6277.

His albums and EPs are mostly separate tracks of his compositions, which Mills would mix into the live DJ sets for which he became a legend. Mills has been credited for his exceptional turntable skills. Tracks are almost chopped to bits to showcase the strongest fragments for his relentless sound collages. He usually uses three decks, a Roland 909 drum-machine and up to seventy records in one hour.

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