Uncivilized World
2006
Blue Potential
About This Album
A man of many ideas, Jeff Mills has always been an experimental and prolific artist, releasing a steady stream of records exploring various forms of techno. Blue Potential therefore isn't all that exceptional for someone like Mills. A 2005 live recording of the mad scientist himself performing in tandem with the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra in France at Pont du Gard (a UNESCO world heritage site), Blue Potential would be considered a vanity project for most artists. Such live-with-orchestra albums are a rock cliché, after all, with everyone from Metallica to Kiss performing, recording, and releasing these sort of albums at some point, generally when it's time to get some easy product out on the market. Jeff Mills is not Metallica, suffice it to say, nor is he Kiss, so one can give him the benefit of the doubt that Blue Potential was conceived in earnest. And judging by the recording and its accompanying documentary (28 minutes), interview (28 minutes), and "studio tutorial" (19 minutes) on the DVD half of the album, Mills indeed put a lot of heart and soul into Blue Potential. In a way, this is a dream project for Mills. In recent years, for instance, he'd constructed his own soundtracks to old black-and-white silent films by Fritz Lang (Metropolis) and Buster Keaton (Three Ages).
Track List

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