The Trip To Vega: A deep outer space odyssey. Jeff Mills releases new album.
Jeff Mills returns with a new solo album.
“The Trip To Vega” is about a deep outer space odyssey that occurs in the process of traveling from Earth through the Cosmos to another “favorable” star system 25.3 light-years away. The time is year 2097, Sept 23rd. Earth’s physicality has changed – it is no longer favorable for living things.
The constant shifting of the planet’s internal tectonic plates has produced an extraordinary amount of sound including a specific harmonic frequency that erodes the natural senses of all life on Earth. It is intensifying. It is intolerable. It is unlivable. A decision has been made, and a Trip To Vega is the consequence.
Eleven tracks across three discs, with production choices that serve the concept throughout. No drum machine was used. Individual percussion sounds are intricately placed to perceive the presence of a drum instrument. The typical three acoustic ranges were dropped a notch: the album mainly uses mid, low and subsonic frequencies, referring to the story that Earth’s dangerous sound effects had already affected most humans and their ability to hear hi frequencies. The album is directed mainly at today’s younger generation – the one that, if lived a healthy life, could live to reach 2097.
The Trip To Vega is released on Axis Records on June 19, 2026.