[ I sent this out a while ago, but either you all thought my obsessive
trainspotting was too sad to merit comment or it didn't make it
through to the list. -- ozy ]
The recent mention of _The Art Of Connecting_ has me wondering what
Mills is thinking these days. In addition to owning the majority of
the Axis and Purpose Maker releases on 12", I own these CD
compilations (duplicated tracks marked with exclamation points):
o Waveform Transmissions vol 1 (Axis / Tresor / Pow Wow Trance, US)
1) Phase 4
2) Jerical
3) Changes Of Life
4) Berlin
5) The Hacker
6) Late Night
! 7) DNA
8) Man Like
o Waveform Transmissions vol 3 (Axis / Tresor, US)
1) The Extremist
2) Solid Sleep
3) Life Cycle
4) Workers
5) Wrath Of The Punisher
! 6) DNA
! 7) Condor To Mallorca
8) Basic Human Design
o The Other Day (Axis, Japanese)
1) Solarized
! 2) Gamma Player
3) Sleeping Giants
4) i9
5) Time Out Of Mind
6) Growth
7) Gateway of Zen
8) Medusa
9) Man From Tomorrow
10) Spider Formation
11) Childhood [Maria's Mix]
12) Humana
13) Inner Life (529)
! 14) Eclipse
! 15) Nepta
16) Mercury
o Lifelike (Axis / Purpose Maker, French)
1) Yantra
! 2) Condor to Mallorca
3) Global Factor
4) Zenith
! 5) Nepta
6) Babylon
7) Minnia (The Queen's Theme)
8) Detached
9) Systematic
10) Cometh (only)
11) Solara
12) Avenger
! 13) Eclipse
14) With/Dove
Stuff that's out there but that I don't have:
o Purpose Maker Compilation
1) Dancer
2) Casa
! 3) Bells
4) Reverting
5) Alarms
6) Outsiders
7) Cubango
8) Medicine Man
9) Paradise
10) Masterplan
11) Fly Guy
12) Fuzz Dancer
13) Tango
14) Captivate
o The Art of Connecting (Axis, Australia (others?))
1) Deckard
! 2) Nepta
! 3) Gamma Player
4) 4 Art
5) Pacific State Of Mind
6) Cobolt
! 7) The Bells
8) Java
9) UFO
10) Utopia
The thing that confuses me is the way that tracks from one of Mills'
releases will pop up on another. What it looks like is that Mills is
releasing a whole bunch of collections all over the place without
really trying to avoid overlap. I don't get why he feels the need to
have the overlap, because anyone who goes to the lengths necessary to
find one of these releases (none of which, aside from the Waveform
Transmissions records, are particularly easy to find) will try to find
them all. Additionally, his albums are always admirably terse (no
irony implied) so it's even weirder to have material duplicated from
one release to another.
I guess I'd be more inclined to buy another Mills album if I didn't
already have a big chunk of that material. It's not like Mills doesn't
have a huge backlog of unreleased stuff that's high quality -- all of
the recent mixes I've heard by him have been filled with amazing stuff
I've never heard anywhere else (although I'm only guessing it's by
Mr. Mills). He's a puzzling guy.
On an unrelated topic, thanks to all who said nice things about the
_Mixed Up In The Hague_ compilation a while ago. I picked it up this
weekend and it is indeed verrah nice. It's like a cleaner-sounding
version of one of those great old Hot Mix tapes TeeP used to send me
once upon a time.
still alive,
ozymandias
. . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . .
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