Jeff Mills/The Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra - Blue Potential

A man of many ideas, Jeff Mills has always been an experimental and prolific artist, releasing a steady stream of records exploring various forms of techno. Blue Potential therefore isn't all that exceptional for someone like Mills. A 2005 live recording of the mad scientist himself performing in tandem with The Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra in France at Pont du Gard (a UNESCO world heritage site), Blue Potential would be considered a vanity project for most artists. Such live-with-orchestra albums are a rock cliché, after all, with everyone from Metallica to Kiss performing, recording, and releasing these sort of albums at some point, generally when it's time to get some easy product out on the market. Read More