The Wizard :: Jeff Mills


Born: 6 November 1971 in Queens, NYC, USA.

Joey Beltram is widely acknowledged as a leading innovator in the early development of underground dance music.

Joey began DJing as a hobby back in 1983 at the age of 13 playing mostly early electro and hip-hop. He made the switch to house music in 1985 when the first wave of Chicago house hit NYC that same year.

In 1989 he started releasing some of his early productions on several small New York record labels whilst he was working as a courier. A year later he caught the eye of R & S Records in Belgium and by mid 1990 released his first major record with that company titled "Energy Flash". Beltram soon followed with some equally impressive releases.
All through the 90's he has created some of the most timeless music on some of the most cutting edge labels of the decade. 
The flyer is from the 04.10.1991 at Quartier Berlin.

https://soundcloud.com/joey-beltram

Comments, hints and suggestions are always welcome!

Joey Beltram @ Tresor, Berlin  1993

I Love Techno - Flanders Expo, Gent Belgium 06-11-1999

Line Up:

Darren Emerson
Dave Angel
Derrick May
Jeff Mills
Laurent Garnier
Luke Slater
Surgeon 
Sven Väth

Live @ I Love Techno (Flanders Expo, Gent) 1999

Surgeon Live @ I Love Techno, Flanders Expo Gent 06-11-1999

Jeff Mills (T In The Park)(2006-07-09) Radio 1 Essential Mix -

Tresor (German for safe or vault) is an underground techno nightclub in Berlin and a record label.

History:

The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former department store Wertheim at Leipziger Strasse 126-128 in Mitte, the central part of East Berlin, next to the Potsdamer Platz. The history of the club goes back to 1988 when the electronic music label Interfisch opened the Ufo Club in Berlin. Ufo was the original centre of Berlin house and techno, but due to financial problems that club closed in 1990.
After Ufo closed, Interfisch's head, Dimitri Hegemann, and some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin. This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months before Germany unified. The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin. Tresor continued to be a popular club, having expanded and reconstructed continuously several times to include an outdoor garden area, and a second "Globus" floor. The Tresor floor in the basement was reserved specifically for hard techno, industrial and acid music, while Globus was featured mainly more mellow house sound. The record label Tresor Records was founded soon after the club first opened, in October 1991. Featured artists on the label include Jeff Mills, Blake Baxter, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Stewart Walker, Joey Beltram, DJ Surgeon, Pacou, Cristian Vogel and many others.
In 2004 the documentary "Tresor Berlin: The Vault & the Electronic Frontier" was released. Directed by Mike Andrawis, it features interviews with Hegemann, Carola Stoiber, and DJs & artists associated with the club & label. The film covers the period from Hegemann's involvement with the Fishladen and UFO clubs in Berlin-Kreuzberg to the final months prior to Tresor's closure.
Tresor closed on 16 April 2005, after several years' prolonged short-term rent. The city sold the land to an investor group to build offices on the Leipziger Straße location. It was open for each night of April 2005, with the final event starting the Saturday night with queues stretching all the way down the road, and still going Monday morning.
Tresor reopened on 24 May 2007 in the decommissioned southern tract of the combined heat and power plant Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte in Köpenicker Straße. 
Since November 2019 the club has a subsidiary in the city of Dortmund called Tresor.West. 
In September 2022, Tresor published a photobook, Tresor: True Stories, to document the past 30 years of its history.

3 Decks & Drummachine

Jeff Mills Live @ Tresor, Berlin Germany 14-12-2000 Part 1

Jeff Mills @ Sonar, Barcelona 2005

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Laurent Garnier & Jeff Mills Live @ I Love Techno - 1999

Jeff Mills Peel Session 2003

JEFF MILLS-YOKOHAMA ARENA

Jeff Mills & Frankie Bones - Live @ Panoramix, France 8-8-98
No need to much words for this 2 ,but i will say something about 1 of them guess who ;)

Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long line of Detroit-bred talent to take on an international reputation. A founding member of noted Motor City institution Underground Resistance, Mills helped build the artist roster and label ideology (as well as much of its back catalog) with partners "Mad" Mike Banks and Robert "Noise" Hood before moving to New York in 1992 to pursue more vigorously his solo and DJ career (with a resident spot at the legendary Limelight and a recording contract with the noted German label Tresor). (Although rumors of bad blood between the early UR crew have been denied by all involved, Mills' decision to split was apparently total, with Banks all but repudiating his involvement with Mills and Mills distancing himself from the continuing political militancy of Banks and the UR organization.) 
Mills' UR-related releases (including "The Punisher" and "Seawolf") are stripped-down and erratic, fusing elements of hardcore acid and industrial techno to the sparse Detroit aesthetic. Not surprisingly, his post-UR sound hasn't eased a bit, although UR's penchant for the four-track has been replaced by higher-quality production.

Prior to his involvement in UR, Mills was a DJ at Detroit public radio station WDET (he was also studying architecture at the time), spinning everything from Meat Beat Manifesto and Nine Inch Nails to Chicago house and underground Detroit techno. He began producing in the mid-'80s, working with Tony Srock on the project the Final Cut.

Jeff Mills & Frankie Bones - Live @ Panoramix,  8-8-1998

Closing Set @ Infected Festival 2019 (NL)

Live at Infected Festival 2019

JOEL MULL B2B DUSTIN ZAHN - LIVE @ INFECTED FESTIVAL [22-06-2019]

Jeff Mills live @ Cocoon Club

Radio 1, London, ENG 18-05-1997

Party Boy - Twilight Zone (Urban - URBX 27)
Adonis - Reck The Joint (Black Market International - BLMK R 002)
Underground Resistance - Assault (Underground Resistance - UR-010)
Dj Hell - Diese Momente Werden Nicht Verloren Sein Wie Tränen Im Regen! (Sativae - TIVA008)
Surgeon - First (Tresor - TRESOR 072)
The Blunted Boy Wonder - Metropolis (Novamute - 12 NOMU 58)
Jeff Mills - Alarms (Purpose Maker - PM-002)	
Outline - Untitled B3 (Blueprint - BP005)
Section-8 - Rogue Trooper (Radius - ORBIT 601002)
Surgeon - Untitled A1 (WHITE - THX 1139)
Umek - Untitled A (Expire - EX001)
Jeff Mills - D.N.A. (Tresor - TRESOR011)
Female - Back Lash (Downwards - LINO012)
Robert Hood - The Pace (Axis - AX-007)
Aquatrax - Motion (Aquatrax - AQT 003)
The Mind Drum - It Is What It Was (Subvert Records - SV0.1)
Debo - Twista (Freak Mode - FM104)
Hispanic Syndicate Empire - Obscure (International House Records - IHR 9009)
Dj Deeon - R U Sure (Dance Mania DM 186)
Odyssey Nine - Vamp (Visible Records - VIS 102)
Savas Pascalidis - Untitled B1 (Kurbel - KURBEL006)
X-102 - OBX-A (Underground Resistance - UR-019.5)
Surgeon - Untitled A1 (Dynamic Tension Records - DTR001)
Jeff Mills - Untitled A1 (Minimal Nation Mispress) (Axis - AX-007)
Dj Rush - Rain Dance (Djax-Up-Beats - DJAX-UP-263)
Corey Holloway - No Further (Djax-Up Beats - DJAX-UP-273)
Stacy Kidd - SOS (Revenge) (Dance Mania - DM 197)
Robert Hood - Untitled 1 (M-Plant - PP304)
Low End Theory - Sweet Pickles (Dance Mania - DM 141)
Dj Deeon - The 604 (Dance Mania - DM 174)
Dj Deeon & Dj Funk - Shake It (Funk Records - TEST DJ 004)
Dj Milton - Pop Dat Ass (Freak Mode - FM105)
Dj Funk - Dub Like Me (Ghetto Series - GS-001)
Dj Funk - Run (U.K.) (Funk Records - DJ 000)
Jeff Mills - i9 (Axis - AX-015)
Green Velvet - Destination Unknown (Relief - RR775)
Jeff Mills - La Force (Purpose Maker - PM-003)
Surgeon - First (Regis Alloy mix) (Tresor - TRESOR 072)
Section-8 - Fallout (Radius - ORBIT 601002)
Dj Leeon - Untitled A1 (Syncopate - SYNC 2)
Stephen Brown - Byte 1 (Djax-Up Beats - DJAX-UP-276)
Equinox - Pulzar (1991 Jeff Mills mix Pt. 2) (Synewave - WEB 1)
Oliver Ho - The Voice (Blueprint - BP006)
Umek - Untitled B2 (Expire - EX001)
D.E.O. - Hydraulic (Hydraulic Records - H-3000)
Outlander - The Vamp (Kevin Saunderson mix) (R & S Records - RS 97113)
Code 6 - Last Voyage (EXperimental - EX-15) 

Essential Mix 1997

one of THEE GREATEST techno sets ever to find its way to mp3...  a fvcking symphony.  enjoy!

JEFF MILLS-YOKOHAMA ARENA

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