Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan), also known as "the Wizard", is an American DJ, record producer, and composer.

He featured in Man from Tomorrow, a documentary about techno music that he produced along with French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux.

[8] Mills played The Necto where he began incorporating concepts such as different equipment setups, including positioning himself on the dance floor with the people.

[8] Mills is a founding member of Underground Resistance, a techno collective that he started with former Parliament bass player 'Mad' Mike Banks.

[1] The group embraced revolutionary rhetoric and only appeared in public dressed in ski masks and black combat suits.

There in 1992, with fellow Detroit native Robert Hood, he set up the record label Axis, and later, sub-labels Purpose Maker, Tomorrow, and 6277, all aiming for a more minimal sound than most of the techno being produced in those years.

[11][12] Mills released Blue Potential in 2006, a live album of him playing with the 70 piece Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra in 2005.

Mills performed a live set in January 2015 at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, California.

[14] The set was performed with four turntables to create a cinemix soundtrack for Woman in the Moon, the 1929 silent film from Fritz Lang.

[24] His works have included "Man of Tomorrow," a portrait of Mills that shows his perception of the future[25] as well as "Critical Arrangements" exhibited at Pompidou Centre in 2008 as a part of "Le Futurisme à Paris – une avant-garde explosive.

Jeff Mills performing in Detroit in 2007.
The Tresor Club in Berlin, where Mills was a resident prior to launching Axis Records