TIMO MAAS
"MUSIC FOR THE MAASES"
(HOPE)
4LP/2CD

Self-styled purveyor of "percussive wet funk", Timo Maas releases his first album through his own label Hope Recordings. It coincides with his much anticipated and awaited follow-up single to ‘Der Schieber’ which reached the lower echelons of the UK charts back in March. ‘Ubik’ (the new single out on Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label) features the Beck-esque vocals of Martin Bettinghaus and if the hype surrounding this track is to be devoured, then will be a radio and chart certainty.

Timo Maas is producer and remixer of more than 85 productions in three years, including classics like Orinoko’s ‘Mama Konda’, and his snarling snare-driven mix of ‘Doom’s Night’ by Azzido Da Bass. As well as Hope Recordings and current label Perfecto, he’s also recorded for Hooj Choons, FFRR, and Bush. Now a bi-monthly resident at New York’s "Twilo" club alongside Sascha, Digweed, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, and Paul Van Dyk, Timo Maas has become one of the biggest DJs in the world.

‘Music For The Maases’ is Timo Maas’ retrospective production anthology. It takes in older and seriously overlooked moments like ‘Killing Me’, whilst keeping the vibes bang up-to-date with ‘Der Schieber’, and his much loved and crossed-over remix anthem ‘Doom’s Night’, working its way through remixes of Jan Driver’s ‘Drive By’, Green Velvet’s ‘Flash’, Paganini Trax’ ‘Zoe’, and several of Timo’s own cuts.

What you have here is the beginning of something very, very big all neatly compacted into a smooth two-hour mix that’s funky, deep, trippy, and very wet in places. Pure brilliance!

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