Jeff Mills^US

Photo credit: Jacob Khrist

Deeply inhabited by a love of science-fiction, DJ, producer and artist Jeff Mills adopts its stories and aesthetics into the creative fabric of his divergent minimal techno sound. For him, space is an obsession, and his music sets the stage for dreamed utopias and interstellar ideation to freely sprawl.

Arising from Detroit’s early techno scene, his innovative style embodies the future while respecting the past and remaining well into the present. When he founded his own record label Axis in 1992, Mills took the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetic and core model for his creativity, crafting a logo consisting of four triangles pointing to an invisible center.

From the beginning, his first releases explored forward-thinking scientific topics like “Mutant theory,” “Tomorrow,” and “Art/UFO”, taking inspiration from classic works like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Woman in the Moon (1929).

For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative force, and this philosophy is reflected in his ceaseless activity and adventures into the terra incognita of hypothetical worlds.

Jeff Mills – Stargate
Live | World Premiere

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”. - Albert Einstein.

The concept of Stargate is one of exotic exploration of the unknowns. By the way of a portal and ancient transport device called a Stargate, the audience is invited to experience distance Worlds, deep space phenomena and obscure interstellar elements. With immersive sound, video and lighting, a range is created between the Stargate and its passengers. Guided by the distinctive experimental soundtrack of Jeff Mills, he schedules 5 segments of adventurous tour.

A Stargate is a cosmic wormhole, where time is bent to decrease enormous distance in order to travel through space almost instantaneously. Here on Earth and appearing as a large circular frame and used in many ancient civilizations, it is activated by ceremonial protocol, the interior becomes the passageway and bridge into different dimensions of Time and Space.

Space science, science fiction and Techno music are resemblant - each about exploring the uncharted. Nourishingly, they all work towards a common objective to enhance wisdom and stellar consciousness.