Introducing North London's Jess Mills
There’s a fair chance you’re already familiar with the sublime voice of North London girl Jess Mills since her vocals graced the recent Radio 1 A listed single ‘Fighting Fire
’ by Breakage. Jess’s relationship with Breakage began on Leftfield’s recent comeback tour, where Jess was providing the vocals for the seminal dance act, and Breakage was the support. Bonding over a shared love of Radiohead, 90s drum’n’bass and Depeche Mode they decided to bunker down in James’ South London studio, the place where he’d recently crafted his now infamous remix of Clare Maguire. There Jess wrote and laid down the vocals for his club smash ‘Fighting Fire’. A track that left confused message board chatter over whether it was dub-step, trance or pop music, but that clearly united people on the dance-floor. Like Geoff Barrow’s first meeting with Beth Gibbons, there was magic in the air… And a pact was made to return the favour by producing some of Jess’ own solo material. The result is Vultures, the first track Breakage has ever produced for another artist. And one from which you could draw comparisons with the aforementioned Portishead duo, if they were making beats in South London in 2011. Quite simply, it’s a taster of what this pop star in the making has to offer with the backing of one of our most exciting producers and remixers in music today. Backed by a brilliant cover of ‘A Forest’ by The Cure, the Vultures complete package also includes remixes from Photek, nu:tone and MJ Cole.
Jess Mills Vultures Island Records Available to download Vultures - EP - Jess Mills • Vultures
• A forest
• Vultures (Photek remix)
• Vultures (nu:tone remix)
• Vultures (MJ Cole remix)
http://www.myspace.com/jessmillsmusic
’ by Breakage. Jess’s relationship with Breakage began on Leftfield’s recent comeback tour, where Jess was providing the vocals for the seminal dance act, and Breakage was the support. Bonding over a shared love of Radiohead, 90s drum’n’bass and Depeche Mode they decided to bunker down in James’ South London studio, the place where he’d recently crafted his now infamous remix of Clare Maguire. There Jess wrote and laid down the vocals for his club smash ‘Fighting Fire’. A track that left confused message board chatter over whether it was dub-step, trance or pop music, but that clearly united people on the dance-floor. Like Geoff Barrow’s first meeting with Beth Gibbons, there was magic in the air… And a pact was made to return the favour by producing some of Jess’ own solo material. The result is Vultures, the first track Breakage has ever produced for another artist. And one from which you could draw comparisons with the aforementioned Portishead duo, if they were making beats in South London in 2011. Quite simply, it’s a taster of what this pop star in the making has to offer with the backing of one of our most exciting producers and remixers in music today. Backed by a brilliant cover of ‘A Forest’ by The Cure, the Vultures complete package also includes remixes from Photek, nu:tone and MJ Cole.Jess Mills Vultures Island Records Available to download Vultures - EP - Jess Mills • A forest
• Vultures (Photek remix)
• Vultures (nu:tone remix)
• Vultures (MJ Cole remix)
http://www.myspace.com/jessmillsmusic
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