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Mills & Garnier Go Back (To Back) To The Future

Author: Jonty Skruff
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Jeff Mills and Laurent Garnier have announced details of a 13 date joint Eropean tour at which the legendary DJs will be performing 7 hour back to ack sets of deliberately eclectic retro and new music, they revealed this eek.

"It's not a techno tour, it's not a house tour, not a disco tour, but we ust play what we think is emotionally rich," Mills told Australian magazine nion.

"It can be anything from Afro-Cuban to reggae-dub to rock & roll to house and hip hop."

As well as playing in Serbia, France, Belgium and Germany (four dates) the duo will be appearing at London's Fabric on Thursday September 16, spinning from when the club opens at 9pm right until it closes its doors at 4am.

Speaking to the East London club this week, Mills described the club scene as being Å'stagnant', suggesting both the music industry and media are too conformist.

"In a strange way, the electronic music scene either forgot that it did not have to play by the rules of the major label structure, or never knew that at all," he suggested.

"I've noticed that for the past ten years, sounding similar to some other producer or copying that persons style has become acceptable, and, in some cases, rewarding."

(Jeff Mills & Laurent Garnier @ Fabric, Thursday September 16: 9pm - 4am: £15 in advance (tickets are virtually certain to sell out)
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