Jeff Mills Transported Into the Time Tunnel by Little Alien People at ADE Performance
October 21, 2015. On this very day, Marty McFly travels into the future to save his children inĀ Back to the Future Part II. In an alternate universe, little aliens appeared at Jeff Mills’ performance at ADEĀ and brought him through the Time Tunnel. So in honor of Back to the Future Day and Jeff Mills’ out-of-this-world performance, we dive down the rabbit hole of techno and its relation with futurism and science fiction.
Techno came about as an assimilation of ideas about music and futurism (afrofuturism in the Detroit scene) inĀ a progressive societyĀ that coincided with developments in modernism, capitalism, and technological spirituality, Ć la Alvin Toffler’sĀ The Third Wave. This is where the term “techno rebel” became synchronized with the identity of being one who listens to techno music. Read more
