Jeff Mills - A Trip to the Moon (2017)

Since many of Jeff Mills's strongest albums have been new scores to classic sci-fi films, hopes are naturally high for this audio interpretation of Georges Melies' 1902 silent movie, A Trip To The Moon. As you'd expect, it's an impressively cinematic musical journey, with the Detroit legend using synthesizers and drum machines to do the work of an orchestra. It touches on many of his usual musical tropes - think star-hazing ambient and futurist Detroit techno - while also offering nods towards Chicago acid, the kind of cyclical, phase-based compositions pioneered by Steve Reich, experimental noise, and neo-classical. It's emotive, immaculately produced, and hugely entertaining.

Tracklist:

01. Theory And Plans (The Trip)
02. The Believers
03. Rocket Spaceship Destination
04. Amongst The Stars
05. Outer Space
06. Fast Descent To The Surface (Eyeball Landing)
07. Winds Across The Vast Landscape
08. Strange Plants And Other Botanical Wonders
09. Sleepy Time
10. The Feeling Of Being Watched
11. Underground And The Moon People
12. Captured And Under Their Control
13. Bewilded, But Not Confused
14. The Escape
15. A Hero's Welcome