FACT Magazine’s Chris Zaldua talks to Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills about hisambitious new project with Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen.
“Jeff Mills and Tony Allen is a collaboration that seems, at first glance, too good to be true: two innovators, two legends in their own right, working together. News of the collaboration first surfaced last November and video documentation of their first performance revealed the pair experimenting with form, playing off each other as they go. ‘Everything [Allen] does is part of a conversation,’ says Mills. ‘Once I knew that, then I knew how I could meet him halfway.’
“The pair will reprise their collaboration live on stage at this year’s Rewire Festival in The Hague. We caught up with The Wizard himself to speak about about the collaborative process, the futurist possibilities inherent in techno music, and on re-thinking our perspective on how drum machines can be used.”
Jeff Mills & Tony Allentreat Rewire 2017 to their unique collaboration on Sunday, 2April. Watch a snippet of their Paris debut below and find out more about theirRewire 2017 performance at: Jeff Mills & Tony Allen.
Rewire 2017 Festival Passes (€65) and Day Tickets (€27.50) are available at:Tickets.