Waveform Transmission Vol. 1

Jeff Mills gives Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 almost no softness to hide behind. Fast, monochrome rhythms keep pressing forward until velocity and pressure seem to become the expressive palette. Mills changes the force by degrees, not by opening the window. Severity is the only mode it has, and within it nobody has gone further.

Tresor's most punishing hour. Mills plays the drum machine like a transmitter, not an instrument, and never once slows down to help you. The speed and severity of nineties techno were set here and the decade spent itself catching up.

Detroit's most severe export, made for Berlin's Tresor and setting the speed of the whole decade. Mills treats the drum machine as a transmitter and never slows down to help anyone.