Millsart - Humana

Apart the obvious classics released on side A (and numerous other Mills compilations and albums): With, Gamma Player and Childhood (Maria's Mix), the real treasure remains buried on the flip side. After a pretty heavy loop comes an eight minute plus piece of pure orchestral, symphonic, science fiction cinematography reminiscent music. Jeff not only does avoid conceiveing something club friendly, he walks a completely different path when compared to the previous tracks. He manipulates chords and strings, creating a really galactic and far reaching soundscape during the track's first half. He then breaks it down towards the middle, and rebuilds the music back up with a classical instrument sequence on repeat, thus creating an incredibly hypnotic journey into the deepest realms of space he has ever ventured into exploring. By the time the music's over, you'll hardly know what just happenned to you. Whoever said techno was harsh and mechanical needs two copies of this. Mills actually creates a full blown, forward thinking classic without a slightest glimpse of banging, four to the floor percussion. Awesome! The B3 track is more along the lines of the A side, Gamma Player for example, with a few layers keeping it busy atop pulsating, yet not too agressive drum rolls.
Regardless of the fact I haven't been that much of a dedicated Mills follower for the past few years, stuff like this just keeps on reminding me why did we all look up to him so much and praise sky high virtually every new release he came out with! What a classic EP!

As a friend of mine says this EP has everything - sublime minimal techno , soundscapes , a loop . My first Jeff Mills record . The beauty of this music really grows stronger every time I hear it . Music of a mind which looks deep into space . Classic!