Jeff Mills released "i9 (2025 Version)" on July 18, 2025. The track marks 30 years since Mills' Live at Liquid Room Tokyo session, which remains one of the most influential DJ recordings ever committed to tape.
The original Liquid Room mix came out in 1996 on React Records and rewired how a certain kind of techno DJ thought about mixing. Blends were short. Energy moved fast. The whole set moved like somebody was running late for something important. A generation of DJs learned the format from that CD.
Updating "i9" for the 30th anniversary is a small gesture with a specific meaning. Mills is not going back to that era to perform it nostalgically. He is using the anniversary as an excuse to put the material back in front of people who were not around the first time, and to remind the people who were that the record still works.
Keyi Magazine covered the release with a Tokyo-scene retrospective. Axis put the track out as a standalone release.
"i9 (2025 Version)" is on Axis.
