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So you are writing off Mills Liquid Room dj mix, all of the axis and purpose maker records as not relevant to techno despite all being after 1990? It’s a strong take, especially when the 90s techno was massively influenced by Bicknells Lost parties and Mills playing at them. 90s loop techno was pretty much all derived from Mills’ records, Ruskin said he wanted to be the British Jeff Mills, Sim’s Killabite and much of his other output was clearly inspired by him too.
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Mills is an artist I respect and have respect for his fans but he's never really spoken to me and that's probably because I'm an Acid House fan first and foremost. I own a 909/808 and 303, not replicas or software but the actual items and I built one of the first 250 XoX boxes from parts, number 236 from the brass dog tag that came with it.
Like I said though, I have Robert Hoods latest LP and he was co-founder of Underground Resistance with Jeff Mills so maybe I'm just in a slightly different thread.
Airhead
It doesn't help that I'm not that interested in either of them as artists relating to Techno.
Robert Hood though, his latest LP Mirror Man is worth a listen as a modern reference for Techno.
To soften the blow about those 2 artists I see them as important second wave Detroit Tech and more musicians than producers, hence their later orchestral efforts. They are definitely important artists in Detroit Techno but after 1990 it was on it's own path or in it's own bubble until Plastikman.