Jeff Mills: Detroit techno legend on returning to Cork with his jazz-flavoured project 

Jeff Mills played Sir Henrys in the 1990s, but his jazz festival gig will be a rather different affair

 Jeff Mills brings Tomorrow Comes The Harvest to Cork Opera House as part of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Christophe SIMON / AFP 

Jeff Mills’ memories of his first performance in Cork are a blur. It was 1996 and the Detroit DJ, producer and composer – then known as the wizard of electronic music – was touring his acclaimed Liquid Room set, a genre-defining blend of minimalist house music that would come to be heralded as a “techno bible”.

“I did not know much about Cork and Ireland and certain parts of England and things like that, because I just had never been there before. The Liquid Room recording is very interesting, because that was the music that I was taking everywhere – basically to introduce not only myself, but what this music was all about,” he says of a set later released as the iconic Live at the Liquid Room – Tokyo album, with cuts from Mills himself and innovators such as Joey Beltram and Surgeon.