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Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:13 am
by melville
Classic track and what a version.

youtu.be/STpOak4iAJY

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:31 am
by Mslwte
This is great. I have the blue potential album in my car right now. :D amazon is another great!

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:50 pm
by jordanneke
Poor bastards, playing techno live must surely bring on rsi.

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:46 pm
by Alert
\m/ \m/

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:59 am
by comunion
be there must be a wonderful experience :D

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:49 pm
by wapwap!
i was there (i live in montpellier) it was nice to hear and he did a great mix just after that performance!
seems no recording of it was released unfortunately..

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:42 pm
by Taylor
such an amazing version, for one of my favourites by mills.

\o/ \o/

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:11 am
by ilpadrinorecord
Brilliant

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:21 pm
by Lost to the Void
I thought this was terrible.
A wasted opportunity.

Mills has been riding off the Bells his entire career.
He had the opportunity to work with an orchestra and a scoring specialist.
He could have created something wonderful, something transcendent.

Instead we have mills, embarassingly playing a fucking 909 with an orchestra embrassingly playing the fucking bells.
Probably took about half an hour to score that.

I pretend this never happened.

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:09 pm
by mattie
That reminded me of this,didnt hit the spot for me even though i like the original at les track,timing just seems all over the place

youtu.be/4Tk6MnltkXg

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:40 pm
by mattie
Back to Jeff Mills Ive always liked this one,

youtu.be/2iP53qGuhfs

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:38 pm
by Lost to the Void
mattie wrote:That reminded me of this,didnt hit the spot for me even though i like the original at les track,timing just seems all over the place

youtu.be/4Tk6MnltkXg

It`s a weird trend. Who`s next to convert their 6 minute loop into a orchestral piece?

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 8:56 pm
by Mono-xID
Lost to the Void wrote:Mills has been riding off the Bells his entire career.
this

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:31 pm
by Lost to the Void
Mono-xID wrote:
Lost to the Void wrote:Mills has been riding off the Bells his entire career.
this
He doesn't need to though. It's weird, I wonder if he is sick of it?
He could never play it again and I'd still go to see him, it's the way he mixes that keeps me interested.

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:05 pm
by Revaron
I was lucky enough to catch him playing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican back in October. It was AMAZING. Obviously not to everyone's taste, fair enough. But to me, it was totally special. Still using the arrangements from Blue Potential but with some new stuff as well. The orchestra were into it, and the crowd were REALLY into it. The musicians must have been struggling to hear themselves think, I doubt they have to deal with whooping crowds cheering through every song very often, but they are pros and pulled it off superbly. To be fair though, aside from the crowd, I should imagine it was an easy gig for them. But for us fans, it was a top top top night.

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:29 pm
by dommminic
Caught the show at the Barbican also and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sonic Destroyer & Gamma Player came across really well as did the unexpected Ashford & Simpson cover.

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:27 pm
by Lost to the Void
go see some steve reich, Actual orchestral techno by the man who invented it.
What next? Orchestral versions of latest bumcode tracks?

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:28 pm
by The_G
Lost to the Void wrote:go see some steve reich, Actual orchestral techno by the man who invented it.
What next? Orchestral versions of latest bumcode tracks?
First time I heard "Come Out" by mind was completely blown. I've got recordings of pretty much everything he's ever composed and put to record, some of which is among the best music I've ever heard. Very clear line from his stuff to techno, though most producers and fans are probably not aware of it.

Mills probably is aware of it, but he hasn't really put out anything of significance since the late 1990s (in my opinion, at least).

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:36 pm
by Lost to the Void
Techno owes so much to Reich.
And really, hasn't (when talking about a specific type of techno) got anywhere near Reich in this type of rythmic, hook based hypnotic minimalism.

youtu.be/Mv_8UaP_QRI

More Techno than techno, and still much better than mills getting an orchestra to play The Bells.
I love Mills, and I like that in some way he might have introduced contemporary orchestral music to techno heads who had no knowledge of it, but damn what a terrible concept. If he didn`t have his reputation and some nobody composer had tried to convert their own The Bells to orchestral score, they probably would have been sent out the room.

This is a wonderful combination of dance, visual art and Reich. Transcendent.
youtu.be/i36Qhn7NhoA


youtu.be/zLckHHc25ww
Get mills in with his 909?

Re: Jeff Mills The Bells - full orchestra performance

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:17 pm
by dubdub
I love Mills' string-arrangements, but they work because it's all weirdly FM-synthesized and Mills as an untrained musician has a very unique/strange feeling for orchestral arrangement. Having it played by a real orchestra just removes the fucking point.