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Jeff Mills Just Opened a 1995 Tokyo Time Capsule. Axis Is Pressing It to Vinyl This Week.
Jeff Mills' new "Gamma Rays" EP, out October 30 on Axis Records (AX131), collects four unreleased tracks cut for his 1995 Live at Liquid Room Tokyo sessions and left untouched on quarter-inch tape for thirty years.
Marco R.
Jeff Mills Is Going Back to the Mountain. Rainbow Disco Club Just Got Its Headline Back.
Rainbow Disco Club has confirmed its first wave for 2027, running April 16-18 at the Higashi-Izu Cross Country Course in Shizuoka, with Detroit techno originator Jeff Mills returning to the festival after a four-year absence.
Josh D. · 4 min read
Bloc Went Dark for a Decade. It's Coming Back for One Night, and Jeff Mills Is Still the Headliner.
Bloc, the UK rave institution that vanished a decade ago, returns for a one-off 20th anniversary night at The Cause in London Docklands on Saturday March 6, 2027, with Jeff Mills, Leftfield's first-ever Bloc set and a rare Egyptian Lover live show.
Josh D. · 5 min read
Awakenings Just Sold Out Half of ADE Before the Festival Even Opened
Awakenings has sold out five of its eight ADE 2026 shows at Sugar Factory in Halfweg, with Adam Beyer, Jeff Mills, Ben Klock, Joseph Capriati, Joris Voorn and Adriatique spread across a five-day, 47-artist techno takeover from October 21 to 25.
Josh D. · 4 min read
Why Is a Perfume Brand Hosting ADE's Opening Night Instead of a Club?
Fragrance house Rabanne is bankrolling Amsterdam Dance Event 2026's free opening-night party at WestWeelde on October 21, headlined by Dutch-Turkish techno producer OGUZ, as the Amsterdam leg of its global "1 Million Black Tour."
Josh D. · 4 min read
Jeff Mills Isn't Afraid of AI. He Sees a New Era of Creativity.
Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills says artificial intelligence will not just change how music gets made, it will reshape how people learn, create and experience the world.
Finn M. · 4 min read
Jeff Mills Spent Decades Arguing Techno Is Art. The Rijksmuseum Just Put Him Next to Rembrandt.
Detroit techno originator Jeff Mills has built a 50-minute audiovisual response to Rembrandt's The Night Watch, filmed inside the Rijksmuseum's Gallery of Honour and premiering as the opening act of Audio Obscura's Amsterdam Dance Event 2026 programme.
Finn M. · 5 min read
House and Techno Run on About 100 Drum Machines. One New Book Just Catalogued All of Them, With Jeff Mills Writing the Foreword.
Danish publisher Bjooks has begun shipping BEAT GEMS, Oli Freke's 336-page reference on roughly 100 drum machines across six decades, timed to 909 Day and opening with a foreword drawn from a conversation with Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills.
Samir H. · 5 min read
He Was the First Chinese Producer on a Detroit Techno Label. This Week, He Finally Plays Hong Kong.
Ma Haiping, the Shanghai producer who became the first Chinese artist pressed on a Detroit techno label, headlines Secret Warehouse's two-room Fake DJ #3 event in Hong Kong on September 12, 2026.
Emma S. · 4 min read
London's Most Fought-For Club Finally Crosses the Atlantic. It's Skipping the Club Entirely.
fabric London, the Farringdon club that survived a 2016 licence revocation and a public campaign to save it, holds its first-ever North American event on September 5 at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, headlined by Jeff Mills, Ben UFO, Craig Richards and Helena Hauff.
Finn M. · 6 min read
Jeff Mills Brought a New Universe to Montréal. MUTEK Wants You Talking About AI Instead.
MUTEK Montréal's 27th edition (August 25-30) pairs a 120-artist electronic and AV lineup, including Jeff Mills' North American premiere of his sci-fi piece Stargate, with an expanded Forum on AI, ecology and digital creativity across five Quartier des Spectacles venues.
Josh D. · 5 min read
NEOPOP Spent 20 Years Becoming Portugal's Biggest Techno Festival. Now It's Calling Itself ANTIPOP Again.
Portugal's NEOPOP festival is reverting to ANTIPOP, its original 2006 name, for a one-off 20th-anniversary edition (August 6-8, 2026) at Forte de Santiago da Barra in Viana do Castelo, headlined by Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin and a closing farewell set from Laurent Garnier.
Josh D. · 5 min read
Brunch Electronik Was a Sunday Ritual for Barcelona's House Heads. Now It's a Three-Day Festival.
Barcelona's Brunch Electronik runs three days for the first time, August 7-9 at Parc del Fòrum, with more than 100 artists including Kaytranada, Jeff Mills, Eric Prydz, Luciano and Floating Points.
Josh D. · 5 min read
Detroit Techno Just Lost the Man Who Explained It to the World. John Collins Was the Tour Guide.
John "Jammin" Collins, the Underground Resistance ambassador who ran Submerge's Exhibit 3000 techno museum and DJed Cheeks Nightclub alongside Jeff Mills in the 1980s, has died; Detroit Techno Militia announced the news on Facebook on July 26, no cause disclosed.
Finn M. · 5 min read
Detroit Gave Techno Its Rulebook. Jeff Mills Tore It Up and Kept Playing.
Jeff Mills co-founded Underground Resistance in 1989, then built a solo catalog on Axis Records that turned Detroit's rawest techno into a global minimalist blueprint.
Finn M. · 6 min read
Dekmantel Spent 12 Years Guarding the Forest. This Year It Opened the Gates to Skrillex.
Dekmantel's 12th edition, opening July 29 in Amsterdam, adds a dawn forest program and a first ever city takeover, while putting EDM crossover star Skrillex on a bill built around Underground Resistance and Ricardo Villalobos.
Josh D. · 5 min read
Awakenings Puts 999999999, Tech House and Jeff Mills on the Same ADE Bill. Purism Just Took a Back Seat.
Awakenings has booked eight events across five days at Amsterdam's Sugarfactory for ADE 2026, mixing harder-than-techno, tech house and a Jeff Mills headline set into what the promoter calls its most diverse programme to date.
Finn M. · 5 min read
Fabric Doesn't Just DJ at Junction 2 Anymore. It Curates the Day.
Junction 2 marks its 10th anniversary at Boston Manor Park on July 25-26 (plus August 2) by handing its opening day to fabric London, the club's first full curation of a UK festival.
Finn M. · 4 min read
fabric Is Leaving the Basement. Under a Motorway, in Daylight, With Jeff Mills.
fabric and Junction 2 are staging a joint outdoor daytime techno event on July 25 at Boston Manor Park in London, with Nina Kraviz, Jeff Mills and Marcel Dettmann b2b DJ Hell across three rooms.
Emma S. · 4 min read
Junction 2 Is Splitting Its Best Weekend in Two for Its 10th Birthday
For its 10th anniversary in 2026, London techno festival Junction 2 abandons its single-weekend format for the first time, spreading across three dates at Boston Manor Park, including a one-off collaboration night with fabric.
Josh D. · 4 min read
Jeff Mills Won't Do Techno Nostalgia. He's Building Its Future.
Techno's own architect refuses to let the music live in its past. At 63 the Detroit pioneer still mixes on three decks with no sync button, treats techno as education over entertainment, and the same month he marked 30 years of his most famous live set he shipped a brand-new sci-fi concept album. He honours the past without missing it, and points everything forward.
Finn M. · 4 min read
Jeff Mills Scores Humanity's Escape From a Dead Earth
On The Trip To Vega, out now on his own Axis label, Detroit's techno futurist imagines the year 2097, the planet abandoned, and an 11-track interstellar voyage to a star 25 light years away.
Emma S. · 5 min read
fabric Is Bringing Its Audiovisual Show to New York for the First Time, Jeff Mills and Helena Hauff at Under the K Bridge
London's fabric club makes its New York debut on September 5, 2026, staging a purpose-built AV show at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint with Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff and visual direction from dreamrec.
Josh D. · 4 min read
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