Episode 15 –Jeff Mills - DNA

It’s the late 1980s, and Jeff Mills is a university architecture student in Detroit, as well as a renowned turntablist, dj, and radio host. In exploring producing his own music, Mills has also started to make tracks with another local electronic music artist, Mike Banks. During this period, Mills produces music at night, studies during the day, and sometimes flies overseas to dj at events on weekends. Then one day in class, his university teacher informs him and his peers that they will be studying significant architectural structures around the world, including sites like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Colosseum in Rome. When the teacher realises that Mills is the only student to have actually visited all these places, which is a result of his international djing work, she jokes that there might be nothing left for him to discover in architecture. While intended to be light-hearted, this comment helps Mills realize that he is indeed outgrowing the classroom. This will be the last day he attends university, leaving his studies to become a full-time musician, a decision that will eventually lead to him producing his groundbreaking album, Waveform Transmission, which features the track, "DNA".

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