BIOGRAPHY:

Mills isn’t your typical hedonistic headcase. Mills has a tendency to be very profound, so if you fancy a giggle and a double entendre, he’s not your man. He’s also cultivated a reputation as the journalist’s nemesis, often refusing interviews because of what he perceives as tedious questioning.

He first shot to prominence when he set up techno terrorists Underground Resistance in his native Detroit in 1990 with Mad Mike Banks and Rob Noise. They refused interviews and appeared for photo shoots in boiler suits and hockey masks
Mills says they only did it because their physical identity wasn’t important. Underground Resistance were crucial in that they alone fully explored the real potential of techno
Good on them. Mills left to set up Axis in Chicago in 1992 and then Purpose Maker, two labels that seriously impacted on the techno world. Since then there have been numerous compilations and most recently an interpretation of the soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Along with Carl Cox, Jeff was one of the original three deck mixing superstars, famed for using a 909 alongside the turntables. His hour-long Liquid Room mixes are known for incorporating 70 or 80 tunes.