Substance Presents Jeff Mills

That’s right, it’s not a misprint. A few months ago Adam Richardson was celebrating Substance’s 5th birthday by looking back at some of the biggest names to have graced his night and it made for some formidable reading. Now he’s not just pulled a rabbit out the hat, he’s grabbed 'The Wizard' himself as genuine techno pioneer/legend/behemoth Jeff Mills descends on The Bongo Club. 

These days he’s more at home in the rarified atmospheres of the SLAM tent or much larger venues but Mills will be delivering a three hour set alongside his trusty TR909s, a piece of equipment over which few others have such mastery, especially during his three decks plus drum machine set up. Having worked on a range of projects such as scoring a new soundtrack to the classic 1926 sci-fi film Metropolis, his pioneer status remains very much alive; but he is at heart relentless in his pursuit of pounding techno and for that he is still essential to witness. [Neil Murchison]