It’s been a long time since Jeff Mills worked his techno wizardry on Sydney audiences. Almost 25 years. Almost a lifetime. He broke that spell Friday night, May 22, with a marathon masterclass at Sydney Opera House, an Australian exclusive performance celebrating his iconic Liquid Room Mix.
Mills is an architect of Detroit techno, a founding member of the Underground Resistance. He’s known fondly as The Wizard for concocting magic at the decks, a world-class vinyl technician who thinks multiple stages ahead of the next drop, pulling at dizzying speed from his crate anonymous, white label cuts that would have…