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An elegant musical tour to each one of our planets in the Solar System, Holst brought forth imaginary visions of space that would survive many generations and decades after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an important piece to the classical universe, \"\u003cem\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/em\u003e\" is regularly played throughout the world every year as it had been the most vivid translation of our cosmic neighborhood until now. \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e pays tribute to this century of incredible musical production. He embarks to compose a sonic journey to re-discover our neighboring planets in an 18 piece suite that explores the nine planets, including the portions of space in between the planets, the nine regions Mills calls Loop Transits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply inhabited by science-fiction, Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories, and aesthetics from the outset. For him, space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept, and model for creativity. From the beginning, his first releases explore futuristic and science fiction topics and continue to do so to this day. For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative drive which explains the artist’s ceaseless activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its creation and like the intention of Holst, each track is musically imagined to invoke the psychological affect, emotions, and ideas of each planet. But unlike in the year 1918, when the score was first publicly heard on the last week of World War I, 100 years later, we now have a more accurate knowledge about what each planet is made of and what they look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the French composer \u003cstrong\u003eSylvain Griotto\u003c\/strong\u003e, the arranger of \u003cem\u003eThe Planets\u003c\/em\u003e and Mills’ previous work on the album and classical score about the NASA astronaut and doctor Mamoru Morhi’s space journey in 1992 and 2000 from the album \"\u003cem\u003eWhere Light Ends\u003c\/em\u003e\", Mills has created an electronic music album that has been translated for symphonic and philharmonic orchestras and will accompany them in their live debut and all performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting to conceptualize and produce music for it dating back to 2005, Mills constantly worked on the project over the years to bring it to fruition. In July 2016 Jeff Mills has completed the last production stages of the \u003cem\u003ePlanets\u003c\/em\u003e album at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded and will be released in 5.1 surround on the Blue Ray digital format, the soundtrack needed a particular high level of expertise that could only be attended to at hands of the renowned senior studio engineer Jonathan Allen. The expertise and quality associated with the legendary Abbey Road Studios is recognized globally and undeniably the most famous studio in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is with acclaim from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, or more recently Radiohead before him, that Jeff Mills will bring \u003cem\u003ePlanets\u003c\/em\u003e at this legendary music institution. 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In the last thirty years, his signature mix of Nigerian roots, polyglot jazz and no-fuss funkiness - delivered with both absolute looseness and absolute precision - has spread like a virus around the world, infecting the work of artists as diverse as Damon Albarn, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Moritz Oswald. Jeff Mills is a titan of the electronic dance scene and a tireless innovator, who helped to give birth to the 1980s Detroit techno scene before going on to compose electro symphonies, soundtracks and sonic odysseys inspired by futurism and space travel, working with visual artists, choreographers, classical orchestras, even astronauts. His collaboration with Tony Allen is another rhythmic conversation in a long and well-established discourse, but a special one too. “We’re working together to achieve something bigger than the both of us,” he says. “It really is a pure collaboration, not just through music, but in our minds and spirit as well.” The same goes for Tony Allen. 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While browsing the web, Mills discovered a post that featured the Detroit-born poet Jessica Care Moore. Struck by her words and the energy she mastered to say them, Mills knew immediately that she would be the perfect artist to approach for this creative venture. As with most artists that grew up in Detroit, they immediately opened up the links in their past, present and future outlook. He presented the case and explained to her how he thought it might work. She liked the idea and agree to join.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Crystal City is Alive (A phrase extracted from Moore's words), puts the Detroit, America and the World on notice. 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