Name: Jeff Mills presents: The Crystal City Is Alive by The Beneficiaries
Brand: The Beneficiaries
SKU: 195081835532
Price: 5.9399999999999995 USD
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Rating: 3 (42 reviews)

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Metallic Stars View on Youtube

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People View on Youtube

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When the Sun Loves You Back View on Youtube

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Jeff Mills has been exploring techno’s outer limits since the late '80s. While distilling machine rhythms into increasingly minimal forms, he has simultaneously reached outward, creating futurist epics about time and space. On The Crystal City Is Alive, Mills turns his gaze from outer space back to his native Detroit. Joined by fellow techno veteran Eddie “Flashin'” Fowlkes and a handful of local musicians—keyboardist Amp Fiddler, percussionists Efe Bes and Sundiata O.M.—he reasserts techno’s place within the lineage of Black American music. At the heart of this effort is the Detroit poet Jessica Care Moore, who on “People” elaborates the connections between music and cultural memory: “Rhythm rains dreams from our pores… Movement becomes the language of the fantastic, particles in unison—proper agile aliens of funk.” Fusing classic Detroit techno pulses and Mills’ signature space-telescope signals with polyrhythmic drumming and free-flowing jazz improv, the album is an explicit declaration of Afrofuturist principles, even in its instrumental tracks: “When the Sun Loves You Back” is a love letter to Blackness itself, flipping a wordless meditation on skin tone into an expanse of limitless shimmer.

1. Metallic Stars

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Jeff Mills
Jessica Care Moore; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production

2. People

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Eddie Fowlkes
Jessica Care Moore; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production

3. Star Children of Orion

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Jeff Mills
Jessica Care Moore; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production

4. When the Sun Loves You Back

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Jeff Mills; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production
Music Publisher: Millsart; Other

5. The X

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Amp Fiddler
Eddie Fowlkes
Jessica Care Moore; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production

6. The Crystal City Is Alive

by The Beneficiaries

Primary Artist: The Beneficiaries; Main Performer
Composer: Jeff Mills
Jessica Care Moore; Composer
Producer: Jeff Mills; Production

Technical Specifications

Volume

1 volume only

Tracks

6 tracks available

Type

ALBUM

Format

Digital Media

Duration

53 minutes and 39 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 3000x3000 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

Studio Quality (Hi-Res)

24bit / 96 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Hi-Res/Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

Lyrics

5/6 tracks have lyrics

Synchronized Lyrics

No synced lyrics found

Genres

Techno, Electronic, Dance

Label

Axis Records

Music Distribution Service

Orchard Enterprises Inc

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)

Popularity

Release Date

Jul 23, 2020

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site

UPC

195081835532

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