There’s a bit of head-scratching going on in the techno community right now, with fans wondering how veteran producer Jeff Mills managed to release another producer’s material as his own.
Earlier this year, Jeff Mills released Str Mrkd 001, a 12-inch release which featured four tracks credited to his name. However, as it has since been discovered, only three of the tracks are actually by Mills, with the fourth being an improperly-credited Julien H. Mulder production.
Described as a “rare mistake” by the Axis Records label, they explained that Mills had accidentally thought Mulder’s ‘Patterns In Nature’ was in fact a tune that he had personally composed some time ago.
“Here is how it happened,” explained Axis Records. “Mills often receives demo tracks from artist seeking licenses on Axis Records.”
“As he reviews tracks, he sometimes makes a CD containing samples of tracks of himself and others to test while out on tour. On an unmarked CD and because of the similarity in production style, Mills mistook this track as something he had made a while ago and proceeded to add this to the release.”
Axis Records have noted however that once the mistake had been realised, it was agreed upon that Julien H. Mulder would be given proper credit for the track on the future re-release of the record
Of course, while we’ve seen plenty of artists misattributed to songs in the past, this is definitely a rare example when an artist believed someone else’s song to be their own.
Needless to say, we reckon Jeff Mills might be raiding his collection of vinyl to ensure he doesn’t put out any other songs by the wrong artist in the future.
Check out Jeff Mills’ Julien H. Mulder’s ‘Patterns In Nature’:
