New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Basic NYC) - Jeff Mills is recognized as one of the most accomplished and acclaimed artists in all of electronic music. For close to three decades, he's continuously pushed the boundaries of techno, along the way shattering numerous pre-conceived perceptions of what music can be, and how it should be performed. This Saturday, October 2nd, Basic NYC is honored to welcome Jeff back to the Sullivan Room for his fourth appearance at the venue in the last two years. He will be continuing his Tomorrow Plus X project with an extended set of custom-made, cutting-edge techno.
Launched at the Sullivan Room in May, Mills' Tomorrow Plus X is being developed into a live performance for 2011. In a recent interview, he detailed his plans for the live element. 'It's about positive and negative forces, in a musical sense,' he says. 'It will be a DJ performance in which I only use vinyls of a particular colour. There will be a series of 30 vinyls, with roughly four tracks on each 12', which will only be used for this performance.' Tomorrow Plus X is another one of Mills' science-fiction inspired representations of music, a hypothetical futuristic scenario in which minimal music is deployed as a counterbalance against an unnamed, negative force in the universe.
Witnessing Jeff Mills DJ is truly something special. Typically working off of three turntables, two CDJs, and a Roland TR-909 drum machine, Mills is a flurry of activity live. His trademark style is a relentless, stripped-down electronic pulse that sucks in an amalgam of sounds and elements as his set progresses. Veering ably between tribal drums, synthetic melodies and harsh electronics, Mills refuses to let up on the energy, skillfully driving the dancefloor into overdrive. The last few years have been a flurry of activity for Jeff, with his acclaimed 'Sleeper Wakes' and 'Something in the Sky' performances being staged around the world. He recently reunited with Underground Resistance's 'Mad' Mike Banks to record a new X-102 album and perform at several live events in Europe and Asia. In 2011, he'll performing his soundtrack for the film Fantastic Voyage live in Paris, and he'll be releasing the follow up album to Sleeper Wakes as well. In addition, he continues a very busy DJing and performance schedule around the world.
Opening for Mills on the night will be Basic NYC residents Sleepy & Boo, who will be playing their own set of deep and hypnotic tech-house. The Mills appearance is one of the highlights of a busy October schedule at the Sullivan Room that includes everything from deep house with Frankie Knuckles on October 23rd to Joel Mull's Swedish tech-house on October 16th. Warming up the party will by NYEX's PJay, the former Tronic Treatment resident who has been DJing at and organizing his own events at Stay and National Underground n the Lower East Side. All of Jeff's past Sullivan Room nights have been intense nights of music, and fans of his work will savor this rare appearance in such an intimate venue.
Saturday, October 2nd
Basic NYC presents
Jeff Mills /Axis Records/
Sleepy & Boo /Basic NYC/
PJay /NYEX/
The Sullivan Room
218 Sullivan St.
9pm - 5am
21+
$20 Pre-sale tickets are available at www.wantickets.com
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