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Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan), also known as "the Wizard", is an American DJ, record producer, and composer.[1][2] In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit techno producers 'Mad' Mike Banks and Robert Hood but left the group to pursue a career as a solo artist in the early 90s.[2] Mills founded the Chicago based Axis Records in 1992,[3] which is responsible for the release of much of his solo work.

Mills has received international recognition for his work as a DJ and producer. He featured in Man From Tomorrow, a documentary about techno music that he produced along with French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux.[4] He continued working in film, releasing Life to Death and Back, a film he shot in the Egyptian wing of the Louvre Museum where he also had a four-month residency.[4] In 2017 the president of the Arab World Institute and former French Minister of Culture Jack Lang awarded Mills the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to the arts.[5] ...

A 1981 graduate of Mackenzie High School, Mills started his career in the early 1980s using the name "the Wizard".[6][7] He performed DJ tricks like beat juggling and scratching during his sets, some of which were pre-recorded. He had a nightly show as the Wizard at WDRQ and later at WJLB under the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mills

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[–] Hotchip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got to see him play as the wizard a couple of times before he retired doing sets like that. Always killed it

[–] Rolando 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Must have been amazing. In every video I've seen of him mixing, the audience is having a good time.

[–] Hotchip 2 points 10 months ago

Always a good show. Ain't no party like a Detroit party!

[–] Thcdenton 2 points 10 months ago

Absolute monster on the wheel