Yeah I heard this back around 1997, but come on Ishkur still no Ricardo Villalobos or Richie Hawtin under Minimal techno?

This was how I fell in love with Detroit techno, I heard Jeff Mill's the bells on this and a few years later I saw Jeff Mills playing at Aria in Montreal

PS: I hardly understand or use musical labels

Ritchie Hawtins' DE9: Closer To The Edit is a fantastic album; even more so as he's using turntablism to mix his own beats/samples throughout. Almost as good as Jeff Mill's Live At The Liquid Rooms, Tokyo album (and that's amazing!)..

Farhad's Jeff Mills post prompted me to post this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Hawtin

"Richie Hawtin (born Richard Hawtin, June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid-2000s."

Here's a Plastikman one:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Plastikman-Disconnect-Trippy-Video

Fantastic Sift Farhad; and I agree with comments (above) - contrary to some award Carl Cox recieved a while ago: Jeff Mills is the best Techno DJ by a big distance (The Bells, damn - not heard that in a whlie).

OH man. This is WICKED! I was looking for a good video of Jeff Mills' legendary skills to sift. This is perfect. Thanks farhad!

Present for you.

http://www.videosift.com/video/JEFF-MILLS-The-Exhibitionist-Mix-awesome-live-set

Jeff Mills is an influential African-American Techno DJ and producer from Detroit. His albums and EPs are mostly separate tracks of his compositions, which Mills would mix into the live DJ sets for which he became a legend. Mills has been credited for his exceptional turntable skills. Tracks are almost chopped to bits to showcase the strongest fragments for his relentless sound collages.

Three decks, a Roland 909 drum-machine and seventy records in one hour: at breakneck speed Mills manipulates beats and basslines, vinyl and frequencies. The live album Mix-Up Volume 2 is a highly-regarded example of Mills' 1990's stage show (recorded at the Liquid Room in Tokyo). For a later live show (in 2004) try the 'Exhibitionist' album, of which this is a live mix.

I heard the Bells years ago from AudioGalaxy, and 2 years back I saw him live at Aria in Montreal for the first time and he totally blew my mind. One of my fav. Techno DJs.

The Exhibitionist Mix Part 2
<ahref="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj3utHFMhA4">The Exhibitionist Mix Part 3

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