Your DJ gigs support and promote your new work, and also keep your fan base engaged. You manufacture cds/vinyl records/apparel/merchandise and sell through your website and distributors. We are only two in our main office, but we have business associates in Paris, Berlin and Japan. We are a project-oriented company, so we've maintained many longstanding contractual relationships with many companies in and around the U.S. You are based in Chicago, but how many people do you have working for you and with you? We’re equipped with a small, but effective research library, all the resources that we need to conceptualize an album and its design or (what we need to) build stage settings to create photography. Though we are a music company, we act more like a product design studio. Our company is independently owned and has existed since 1992 and we only produce and manufacture in the U.S. Acquiring our product is mainly through dance music record shops or by mail order directly from our online shop Can you explain the structure of your company? We still like to make things a person can hold in their hands, so we enjoy producing 12" vinyls and CDs. The surge of younger people changes from year to year. This means that aging people are not so quick to stop partying, like in past generations. They want to continue longer because they must still feel it’s relevant to their lives. Portugal and southeast Italy. My indications are the particular similarities in the high amount of younger people in these areas.Īre your fans aging with you or do you see a surge of younger fans? Our primary markets are Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. PAL/SECAM) and the best part is that they're often small and light, so shipping is at minimal costs. The best things about this device is that there is a lot of storage capacity, files are easily transferable, no video format (NTSC vs. In the past years there has been a slow, but steady resurgence of vinyl buyers, mostly collectors. My label, Axis Records, still manufactures vinyl 12" and CDs. In that time musical formats have changed. Where are your primary markets? You are celebrating 20 years of your record label. They all are faced with an abnormal occurrence and somehow gives them a common link.
#JEFF MILLS GEAR TV#
I try to find new ways to present it, often through concepts that are based around science, space and time travel. Coming up in New York, we're working towards presenting a hypnotic sound and visual experience that’s based on time travel, inspired by the 1970's TV "Time Tunnel." I think by enhancing the experience, strengthens the connections between the people. I disagree that "dance music is back." I think that a few people in dance music are starting to make "real" money in America, but it doesn't relate to the rest of the 99.999% percent of the industry. As a business, there are still a lot of unanswered questions to a bunch of serious problems. An important aspect of music is in its presentation. I can see that there is so much more that could be done to present a more interesting atmosphere for the audiences. Yes, I'm trying to tread outside the norm as much as possible. I guess I was never truly convinced that what is happening in dance music is interesting enough. In addition to a steady rotation of international DJ gigs, he has also performed in concert with the Montpelier National Orchestra. In 2007, he received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France. He has also rescored the soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, which was screened at the Museum of Music in Paris, London's Royal Albert Hall, and the Vienna International Film Festival. A prolific artist, he has steadily released music for two decades. In 1992, Mills founded Axis Records in New York and eventually relocated to Chicago. He co-founded the techno record label Underground Resistance with Mike Banks and developed an international following for his compositions and his unique style of mixing and blending records - he is deft, meticulous and highly creative. Born in Detroit, Mills first rose to prominence as a local radio DJ in the mid 1980s. His music incorporates themes of space travel, technology and the cosmos that shapes the form and the sensory effects. Jeff Mills is among the world’s most-coveted DJs and producers in electronic music.
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