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Loud (Timo Maas album)

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Released
  
March 19, 2002

Music For The Maases 2 (2000)
  
Loud (2002)

Release date
  
19 March 2002

Label
  
Perfecto Records

Recorded
  
2001

Artist
  
Timo Maas

Producer
  
Martin Buttrich

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Loud (2002)
  
Music For The Maases 2 (2003)

Genres
  
Techno, Electronica, Electronic dance music, Alternative dance

Similar
  
Timo Maas albums, Progressive house albums

Timo maas help me featuring kelis


Loud is an album by Timo Maas released in 2001. Maas had previously released albums of other performers' material he remixed but Loud is his own debut album.

Contents

Critical reception

Allmusic's John Bush gives the album four out of five stars but other reviews were more mixed. Lunar Magazine's Sean Meddel writes that Maas "gets it mostly right" but Entertainment.ie complains that, except for "Help Me", the album contains "far more perspiration than inspiration" and that the "result is a confusing mix of electronic genres that throws up a few exciting moments but largely fails to set the pulse racing".

Chart performance

In the United Kingdom, the album hit #41 on the UK Albums Chart on 16 March 2002 and three singles from the album hit the UK Singles Chart that same year: "To Get Down" (#14), "Shifter" (#38), and "Help Me" (#65). In the United States, the album hit #47 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and #7 on the Top Electronic Albums chart. Two songs from the album, "To Get Down" and "Shifter", hit the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Music

Several reviewers have noted a distinctive 1980s feel to the music on Loud. The first track, "Help Me", "a '50s sci-fi soundtrack with theremin and horns", features vocals by Kelis and also contains a sample of the title music from The Day the Earth Stood Still, composed by Bernard Hermann. Other guest performers on the album include MC Chickaboo, Martin Bettinghaus, and Finley Quaye.

Track listing

  • All tracks written by Maas/Buttrich, except where noted.
    1. "Help Me" (Feat. Kelis) (Maas/Buttrich/Rogers/Hermann)
    2. "Manga"
    3. "Hash Driven"
    4. "Shifter" (Feat. MC Chickaboo) (Maas/Buttrich/Green)
    5. "Hard Life"
    6. "That's How I've Been Dancin'" (Feat. Martin Bettinghaus) (Maas/Buttrich/Bettinghaus)
    7. "We Are Nothing" (Maas/Buttrich/Alexander)
    8. "Old School Vibes"
    9. "O.C.B."
    10. "To Get Down" (Maas/Buttrich/Hagemeister/Barnes)
    11. "Ubik: The Breakz" (Feat. Martin Bettinghaus) (Maas/Buttrich/Bolleshon/Bettinghaus)
    12. "Like Love"
    13. "Caravan" (Feat. Finley Quaye) (Maas/Buttrich/Quaye)
    14. "Bad Days"

    Songs

    1Help Me4:41
    2Manga6:25
    3Hash Driven2:58

    References

    Loud (Timo Maas album) Wikipedia
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