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Jeff Mills - Live @ Wire, Saitama Super Arena (31/08/02) - FULL 3 HOUR SET

6 tracks found in 2h 50m. Tap one to play from that moment.

1. this is to take the crowd away from the nice harmonic and easy-to-listen-to techno beats – another form of the takeaway & return. Once he returns the more harmonic track at 11:30 it feels much nicer. Taking people out of their listening comfort zone before returning them again • Jeff selects a detuned track @ 9:00
2. pitched chimes playing @, Jeff introduces the kick and then pulls the kick @13:44 to return again a few beats later. Pulling away the rhythm that the crowd are enjoying moving to…. and then returning again • The high 13:20
3. and then the following track (@) drops dramatically to 140 BPM. Over the following 5 tracks he then gradually moves the BPM back up, reaching 144 BPM (@34:00) What he does next is move the next two tracks down to 146 BPM 25:00
4. beat organ riff; Jeff pulls the beat @34:39… then volume at 34:55… then return at 35:05 • @ we can hear the 4 34:20
5. you can see in his face that he’s waiting for the reaction… and then returns the beat @40:48 – to a renewed energy • The final example is with the fairly energetic track playing @… and then @40:38 he pulls the volume completely 40:30
6. 909 drum machine - you can see the first example of this is @. While it’s not completely unheard of to see producer/DJs finger-drum on production hardware and use hardware as a means of playing live, you have to consider that this set is from 20 years ago, when CDJs weren't commonly used (it was still a time when "real DJs use vinyl" was the common view). You may see a very small number of DJs today play hardware instruments – but certainly not while playing vinyl sets. Jeff performs with the TR-909 at the 47:00 for 3-4 minutes, then again @1:13:00 and then finally @2:16:00 The first is the use of the TR 47:20

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