People argue about this mix. Sloppy mixing and relentless energy permeate this mix. For those of you who can understand what is being laid out here, this is an important milestone in techno. This mix will still hold up today and probably for a long time to come. It's hard to put a finger on exectly why this is so good, but the creative energy of the mixer, Jeff Mills, really comes out in full force. The typical standards have been thrown out the window here and in their place we hear techno music being used as something very few people give it credit for. What is that something? We may never know, yet we cannot deny what we feel when we hear.

This is a difficult one! It's an absolutely amazing mix, full of raw energy and classic techno tracks, as other reviewers on here have mentioned. And Jeff Mills is an absolute hero to me, as a DJ and a producer. As a Lost regular over the years he has regularly astounded me with his sets and his UR, Axis and Purpose Maker releases will never leave my collection...

BUT...I've heard quite a few DJ's over the years play with just as much passion mixing tracks (and not necessarily their own either!) at just the same rate, some playing on 3 decks too, while still managing to keep their beats in time! There are quite a few DJ's out there capable of hip-hop style cut & paste mixing with techno at speed who don't get the recognition that they deserve, with Jeff always hailed as the master of that particular medium. He is one of the best, but not the be all and end all...

I guess what I'm saying is that this is a brilliant example of what Jeff can do, but don't ignore others out there who can do it just as well (perhaps with a few less clip-clopping beats as well!), but are not always so well recognised for it...

This is, simply put, my all time favorite mix CD. I haven't heard anything like it released professionally before or since. It's a special gem in this era when most "mix CD's" are really just digital compilations. And we wonder why people don't think it's real music...

I can see why some might not care for it. There are a couple of very minor technical glitches. But what do you expect when the record's being cut every 30-60 seconds in a massive flurry of manic energy?

This is what DJing is all about... not just smoothly fading one record into the other, but really creating something new. Jeff has said that most techno records aren't interesting for more than a minute or so anyway; I think he's right. He's giving you his own personal interpretation of the music instead of just being another generic surgical beatmatcher.

Track selection is slightly dated, but still wicked. Best moment on the disc: when Jeff mixes drops the bassline from DJ Funk's "Run" over the dry 909 kick on Funk's ghetto-house "Work that Body" after the latter has only been playing for 20 seconds or so.

This CD demonstrates why Jeff Mills is rightly considered one of the best DJ's around. Great intro, amazing selection of trcks (inc some classics) and aggressive mixing...having said all thatI always found his early to mid 90's sets frustrating as just as you got into the record he'd switch the trck !!

Surely the best techno set has ever been released.
Jeff proves that when you are the best dj, you should
create music from music, not just playing records
without passion and imagination.

this is the quintesential jeff mills mix if not the quintesential detroit techno mix. constant, banging energy... relentless, layered and textured. i find myself laughing hysterically right about the time he drops the first taste of Strings of Life... after that its pure manic body-jacking of the most sublime variety.