This was so ahead of itself at the time of release that the first time I played it I had an information overload. A friend of mine had brought it round to my house, we listened to it and inspected the vinyl with furrowed brows - as if it had just fallen in from outer-space. Lock-grooves? what the fuck?!! Techno was never gonna be the same again.

The composing idea behind the locked grooves is great, but some are a bit crunched. Loop No. 8 is absolutely not usable(the one which became the track on purposemaker.)

Thoughts of phutura is a great track, simple but good and Utopia is the greatest. My copy has a few scratches in the beginning of Utopia :( . Other copies in the store had that too so I had no choice. Although, I'm still glad I have this vinyl.

Forget the locked grooves track called 'utopia' is the one for me, showing what Mills does best...atmospheric soundscapes, killer drum-pattern and bassline !

funny thing, that one of these loops became the track tango on mills' purpose maker-label...

When it came at this time the scene was just wondering about the loops on A-side which were digitally produced. No one needs an expensive 303 and such analog producing equipments to make fine electronic music. Start of a new way of thinking for many people.