Name: Planets
Brand: Jeff Mills

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axcd051

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Double CD and 32 Page Booklet.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-04-07

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

axcd050

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CD and Bluray and poster.

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2017-04-14

2 / CD / Extended format: Yes / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jeff Mills

Genre GB

Techno / Electro

Label GB

Axis

American techno label Axis, founded by Jeff Mills in New York in 1992, has been a driving force in the electronic music scene for decades. With an unwavering commitment to pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories, Axis has become synonymous with innovation and quality.

Under the visionary leadership of Jeff Mills, *Axis* has consistently delivered groundbreaking releases that have shaped the course of techno music. Known for its distinctive blend of raw energy and futuristic soundscapes, the label's catalog is a testament to its uncompromising artistic vision.

Over the years, *Axis* has nurtured and showcased some of the most influential artists in electronic music. From established pioneers to emerging talents, each artist on the roster brings their unique perspective and creative prowess to the table. The label's dedication to fostering talent ensures a constant stream of fresh and exciting music.

Jeff Mills (aka "The Wizard") is an American techno DJ, composer, producer, and recording artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Known for his relentless pursuit of hardness in music and stripped-down DJ sets, Mills has gained international recognition as one of the most pioneering names in techno. He has performed for audiences worldwide in both club and art spaces. In addition to his successful career as a performer, Mills also runs his own label, Axis, along with several sublabels. He is married to Yoko Uozumi.

It has been 100 years since the British composer Gustav Holst introduced his most famous score The Planets. An elegant musical tour to each one of our Planets in the Solar System, Holst brought forth imaginary visions of space that would survive many generations and decades after. As an important piece to the classical universe, “The Planets“ is regularly played throughout the World every year as it had been the most vivid translation of our cosmic neighborhood until now. Jeff Mills pays tribute to this century of incredible musical production. He embarks to compose a sonic journey to re-discover our neighboring planets in a 18 piece suite that explores the nine planets, including the portions of space in between the Planets, the nine regions Mills calls Loop Transits. Deeply inhabited by science-fiction, Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories and esthetics from the outset. For him, Space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present. Mills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept and model for creativity. From the beginning, his first releases explore futuristic and science fiction topics and continue to do so to this day. For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative drive which explains the artist’s ceaseless activity. Since its creation and like the intention of Holst, each track is musically imagined to invoke the psychological affect, emotions and ideas of each planet. But unlike in the year 1918, when the score was first publicly heard on the last week of World War I, 100 years later, we now have a more accurate knowledge about what each Planet is made of and what they look like. The piece should bring the audience closer to confronting each planet in ways that audiences in 1918 could only dream of. With the French composer Sylvain Griotto, the arranger of Planets and Mills’ previous work on the album and classical score about the NASA astronaut and doctor Mamoru Morhi’s space journey in 1992 and 2000 from the album “Where Light Ends“, Mills has created an electronic music album that have been translated for symphonic and philharmonic orchestras and will accompany them in their live debut and all performances. Starting to conceptualize and produce music for it dating back to 2005, Mills constantly worked on the project over the years to bring it to fruition. In July 2016 Jeff Mills has completed the last production stages of the Planets album at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Recorded and will be released in 5.1 surround on the Blue Ray digital format, the soundtrack needed a particular high level of expertise that could only be attended to at hands of the renowned senior studio engineer Jonathan Allen. The expertise and quality associated with the legendary Abbey Road Studios is recognized globally and undeniably the most famous studio in the World. It is with acclaim from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, or more recently Radiohead before him, that Jeff Mills will bring Planets at this legendary music institution. The mastering sessions occurred on August 2016 with the acclaimed Mastering engineer Darcy Proper in Holland.

Planets

Music GB