Jeff Mills - Blue Potential - Live With Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra


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Label: UWe
Catalog#: UWedvd07
Format: CD
DVD, DVD-Video, Digipak
Country:France
Released:Mar 2006
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Interview, Modern Classical, Techno
Credits: Arranged By - Thomas Roussel
Artwork By [Cover & Design] - Adrien Betra
Composed By - Jeffery Mills* (tracks: CD-2 to CD-15) , Michael Banks* (tracks: CD-13, CD-15)
Composed By, Orchestrated By - Thomas Roussel (tracks: CD-1)
Conductor - Alain Altinoglu (tracks: CD1 to DVD-1)
Directed By - Mathieu Charter* (tracks: DVD-1)
Mastered By - Cedric*
Mixed By - Eric Chevalier , Thierry Lebon
Orchestra - National Orchestra Of Montpellier, The (tracks: CD1 to DVD-1)
Performer - Jeff Mills
Photography - Stephane Barbier
Notes:The Concert (DVD-1) has the same tracklisting as the CD, with the addition of "Man From Tomorrow" as third track.
CD: (P)2005 (C)2006 Uncivilised World
DVD: (C)2005 UWe / Les Films à Jack Fébus

Barcode: 3 700077 670485
EDV 1319

"How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative." (Jeff Mills)
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Tracklisting:

CD-1   Opening (2:07)
CD-2   Imagine (5:40)
CD-3   The March (5:48)
CD-4   Time Machine (3:38)
CD-5   Eclipse (6:14)
CD-6   Entrance To Metropolis (4:36)
CD-7   Keaton’s Theme (5:03)
CD-8   Daylight (2:49)
CD-9   The Bells (5:44)
CD-10   Gamma Player (7:00)
CD-11   4 Art (4:23)
CD-12   Medium C: The Urge To Swirl Alone In A Pool Of Ridicule (9:12)
CD-13   Amazon (5:42)
CD-14   See This Way (6:02)
CD-15   Sonic Destroyer (5:10)
DVD-1   Blue Potential (Concert) (84:33)
DVD-2   Reflection(s) Of Blue Potential (Documentary) (28:26)
DVD-3   Jeff Mills And Thomas Roussel Tutorial (18:35)
DVD-4   Blue Potential (Teaser) (1:02)
DVD-5   Uncivilized World Trailer: Femi Kuti (0:48)
DVD-6   Uncivilized World Trailer: Birdy Nam Nam (1:32)
DVD-7   Submerge Trailer: UR, Interstellar Fugitives 2 (2:26)
DVD-8   Submerge Trailer: Mr Dé, A Detroit Story (0:49)
DVD-9   Jeff Mills Trailer: Exhibitionist DVD (3:33)
DVD-10   Jeff Mills Trailer: The Bells - 10 Year Anniversary DVD (2:00)
User Reviews:
JonnieDarko, Aug 03, 2006

Detroit son Jeff Mills furthers his adventures in Sound, with this truly spellbinding musical experience. Being a massive fan of the orchestra & the ever changing palette that is music, I find myself listening to this many times recently. Amazing how this must have been conceived in the first place. Placing some of Jeff Mills back catalogue classics into orchestrated music form. Brilliant!
To a new listener, this could be a great soundtrack to an emotional wallop of a film with overtones of techno underscoring an overwhelming, technologically progressed society & its story of its inhabitants battling the evil forces of its opressors. My personal highlights are; Gamma Player-always a classic either way, now injected with powerful orchestral strings, brass & woodwind instruments..check this out at least, its truly hair-raising! Imagine seems to suggest a hope & a god given right to move forward to do great things. Soaring orchestral solos like Medium C & Daylight etc without Mills involvement hold your attention all the way.
The March, with its pounding bassline complimented with bass drums & slightly melancholic strings, truly suggest its artists intentions, as he notes to the crowd. The Bells opens well with Bell Chimes & the orchestra really have all the cards here & rightfully so, holding it all together,Mills adding the undercurrent hi-hats & beats. There maybe moments when the synchronisation falls apart slightly in parts of this album, but that i feel adds to it. This is an artistic demonstration of how music boundaries can be blurred, imaginations fired & entertained as well as quash genre types. I hope we hear more artists like this engage in more of these projects. I must give utmost respect to the Orchestrator Thomas Roussel who had the hard work of projecting this to the orchestra & its varying elements, as well as the Conductor Alain Altinoglu, keeping it in time as best he can. Soaring, imaginative & compelling.

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