Detroit techno deity and leading Afro-futurist Jeff Mills examines the way trauma shapes a sense of place in time and space - thru his patented prism of pulsing machine funk and symphonic synth arrangements.
‘The Eyewitness’ is Mills 2nd major LP of 2024 after ‘The Trip - Enter The Black Hole’, and continues to firm up his sci-fi fascinations within a singular, if nebulous, techno style. Aside from his voice found on ‘In a Traumatised World’, Mills encrypts his ideas instrumentally across the album, which appears to reflect on the ongoing, historic, intergenerational trauma experienced by Afro-American society, in a mode of expression favoured for its ability to convey feelings by suggestion, rather than literally.
In distant orbit of the ‘floor, Mills’ music is calibrated here to a mix of melancholy and vitriol, propulsion and nerve-gnawing stasis. He appears lost to his thoughts between the glistening shape of ‘In a Traumatised World’, and the queasily detuned pitch of ‘Indoctrination’ that completes the album. His piquant strings in ‘Menticide’ imply a transition from fever dream to flight, and ‘Those Who Worked Against Us’ and ‘Hold and Command’ trade in his signature 909 programming suss, beside arps recalling Heinrich Mueller on ‘Mass Hypnosis’, sand a sense of hope transmitted by the gentle flutter of ‘Wonderous Butterfly’, contrasting the displaced martial rhythm and Sun Ra-esque organ lines to ‘Pledge to the Sacred Iridescent Mirror’.
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Detroit techno deity and leading Afro-futurist Jeff Mills examines the way trauma shapes a sense of place in time and space - thru his patented prism of pulsing machine funk and symphonic synth arrangements.
‘The Eyewitness’ is Mills 2nd major LP of 2024 after ‘The Trip - Enter The Black Hole’, and continues to firm up his sci-fi fascinations within a singular, if nebulous, techno style. Aside from his voice found on ‘In a Traumatised World’, Mills encrypts his ideas instrumentally across the album, which appears to reflect on the ongoing, historic, intergenerational trauma experienced by Afro-American society, in a mode of expression favoured for its ability to convey feelings by suggestion, rather than literally.
In distant orbit of the ‘floor, Mills’ music is calibrated here to a mix of melancholy and vitriol, propulsion and nerve-gnawing stasis. He appears lost to his thoughts between the glistening shape of ‘In a Traumatised World’, and the queasily detuned pitch of ‘Indoctrination’ that completes the album. His piquant strings in ‘Menticide’ imply a transition from fever dream to flight, and ‘Those Who Worked Against Us’ and ‘Hold and Command’ trade in his signature 909 programming suss, beside arps recalling Heinrich Mueller on ‘Mass Hypnosis’, sand a sense of hope transmitted by the gentle flutter of ‘Wonderous Butterfly’, contrasting the displaced martial rhythm and Sun Ra-esque organ lines to ‘Pledge to the Sacred Iridescent Mirror’.