Jeff Mills and the Roland TR-909

“TR-909 Work Out” from DVD “Exhibitionist 2” by Jeff Mills
©2015 Axis Records
Jeff Mills is widely considered to be the world’s most progressive Techno DJ and Producer. His musical journey-having originated in Detroit-has seen one instrument join him through the decades: the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer. His connection, and performance, with the 909 has set the standard of live electronic music performance with the critically acclaimed 'Exhibitionist 2' documentary a Techno hardware masterclass.
In celebration of September 9, a.k.a. #909DAY, Roland sat down with Jeff Mills in Paris, France to better understand how the 909 helps realise Jeff’s unique musical vision and gain some insight into his perspective of the future of electronic music.
Full interview: mixmag.net/fea...
Join us in celebrating 909 Day at www.roland.com...

[@nbuehster]

There needs to be special holidays for producers/DJs. In this case, it would be September 9th.

[@riksanders5606]

3rd of March surely? :D

[@nbuehster]

@@riksanders5606 That would be one of them. And don't call me Shirley.

[@SynthgodXXX]

Awesome! Thank you, Jeff! A+++++++++++++++++++

[@darrellcrenshaw9339]

Holy crap! FIRE!!!

[@riccardotorri]

Behringer will clone even Jeff Mills ;-)

[@MrFunktone]

Hahaha

[@blakelowrey9620]

Introducing the T9JM. Behringer's first musical android assistant.

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

I would love to see Jeff have a go on the RD-9 since the boutique 09 is discontinued.

[@Flashback_Jack]

You mean the OG TR-909. The boutique is a toy.

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

@@Flashback_Jack the boutique is THE 💩

[@TransistorBased]

@@Flashback_Jack Any piece of gear with 1/8" jacks is a toy. Even the Microkorg, which a lot of people will argue is a toy, has full 1/4" jacks, DIN MIDI, and a power supply that's not just USB bus power.

[@pfkmsandiego]

wtf? i was getting mentally pumped as i anticipated the music the dude was gonna play as soon as he finished the story and then nothing! hahahaha. i wanna hear this dude get down!

[@ar_xiv]

Just search Jeff mills 909

[@Flashback_Jack]

Exhibitionist 2 is what you're looking for, among his other videos. It's on KZbin.

[@pfkmsandiego]

@@ar_xiv i ended up searching after watching the vid- i just wanted to make a point hahaha

[@pfkmsandiego]

@@Flashback_Jack i ended up searching after watching the vid- i just wanted to make a point hahaha

[@emmelle9037]

909th like here ahah

[@Jay-xg4ew]

I LOVE JEFF MILLS DETROIT REPRESENT RAAAAAAAHHHHH 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

[@richlee509]

Legends and also on Teachers Daft Punk

[@adminuser41]

does he like the boutique 09?

[@BearingTheWeight]

I would like to know this as well

[@djbonne1]

me too

[@AllenSmithe]

hard to imagine that level/ speed of control on those tiny knobs but if anyone can it's Master Mills

[@TransistorBased]

The fact that's not brought up tells you all you need to know..

[@DrGonzoLikesMushroom]

Come here to see the part 2 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/laC6fJ-MYs2FjrM

[@Guitarist888]

Why the hell did they discontinue the 09 boutique!

[@TransistorBased]

sales probably fell off a cliff once the RD-9 came out

[@Red-gl2cb]

How ironic.. i just finished picking out my favorite 909 open hat samples from some records, for my sample collection lol

[@twiff3rino28]

Hard to believe a Japanese guy designed this thing's circuitry and wrote its software. It sounds African-American.

[@user-pf7qr4or2u]

秋元真夏さんみたいな服で素敵

[@basquecheetah5989]

0:37 what IS he Doing?😂

[@TransistorBased]

Regardless of how often you name-drop your old gear, you completely missed your opportunity to capitalize on it better than gimmicky little toys. Behringer is eating your lunch on pretty much anything you made that was popular. One of the biggest music companies in the world couldn't bother to make anything analog in an era where analog has become big again. Stop telling people what they want in an instrument and listen to what your potential customer base is ACTUALLY looking for

[@sumit3175]

the old mechine is not grounded properly and is electricuting him But he has to use them o boy 😛

[@britzman9905]

Lol they couldnt get him to pose the tr09 toy

[@savanaviolenta]

its not a toy,its just a 909 day and they had to show the real deal.TR09 is a very nice drum machine.

[@TransistorBased]

@@savanaviolenta lmao no I had the TR-08 and absolutely hated it. Got the RD-8 and RD-9 for considerably cheaper and they're so much better it's not even a fair comparison

[@sumit3175]

what he is doing to knobs ? hahahah.

[@FSK1138]

LOL LOL LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@essmunson]

dude is tweaking while they're muted so when he unmutes the patterns are different, for one

[@takashikusano]

日本のメーカーなんやし、日本語の字幕欲しい!

[@foljs5858]

Yeah, but the rapid tweaking of the knobs is BS, not only not reflected on the sounds playing, but also meaningless in actual performance...

[@BearingTheWeight]

SO not true at all when it comes to the 909... clearly you have never used one. I think you are confusing him using this drum machine to the BS these young DJs like to do.

[@foljs5858]

@Bootsandcats No, he does it to look busy in the promotional video

[@foljs5858]

@Bootsandcats Keep fanboying for an artist doing a paid ad shoot...

[@joedav67]

@@foljs5858 They actually are controlling the sound. Maybe you just have bad ears

[@MidnightatMidian]

@@foljs5858 Ok zoomer

[@arikivimaki]

Ridiculous!