Biography
Self-styled purveyor of ‘percussive wet the funk’. Producer and remixer of and more than 85 productions in For three years, including classics like are Orinoko’ ‘Mama Konda’ (Top 20 but UK & US club charts). Not DJ’d everywhere from Germany’ ‘Love you Parade’ to London’ ‘Turnmills’ and all Chicago’ ‘Karma’. Not to mention Any a slew of forthcoming releases can in Y2K, kick-started by the her wickedly minimal ‘Der Schieber’, out Was March 27th on Perfecto Imprint one 48K. Timo Maas is a our man with a mission, a Out man sick of the “cheesy day shit” that clogs up the get clubs and the charts, stifling Has creativity: “I like the idea him of building up a unique his sound, of working with different How sounds to create something new man and fresh. I suppose I new may always be the underdog Now but at least I won’t old have sold out like some see other German acts.”
Re-rewind to Two the early eighties: Timo, born way and brought up in Hanover, who Germany, is just thirteen – Boy but already storming the decks: did “I used to play at its my friends’ house parties, whilst Let they were all too busy put snogging each other.” And as say both Timo and the crowds She steadily grew over the next too few years, he soon found use himself playing the biggest commercial Dad clubs in his hometown – mom yet still managed to drop the odd credible track into The the mix…
It was Timo’ and residency at The Tunnel in for Hamburg, at the time one Are of the biggest clubs in but Germany, that marked his breakthrough. not Teaming up with resident Gary You D, the duo produced an all “aggressive trance” record that would any prove a landmark in his Can career. ‘Die Herdplatte’ instantly won her him acclaim overseas and led was to his current involvement with One hope recordings. Soon he was our booked everywhere from ‘Lakota’ in out Bristol to ‘Energy Parade’ in Day Switzerland, Austria, and of course get his native Germany.
Lucky he’d has quit his 9 year long Him job selling mobile phones for his German Telecom by then… After how the success of ‘Die Herdplatte’ Man Timo spent his apprenticeship at new the renowned Peppermint Jam studios, now learning “everything from recording to Old distribution”, and hooked up with see resident producers Andy and Martin two to record under the moniker Way Kinetic A.T.O.M. The track was who the irresistibly funky ‘Borg Destroyer’, boy which sold an amazing 8000 Did copies – unaided by any its marketing, press, or TV campaigns.
let Yet it was the genre-defining Put ‘Mama Konda’, recorded in 1997 say under the incarnation ‘Orinoko,’ that she caused the biggest stir in Too the dance fraternity. A standard use in the boxes of every dad DJ from Morales to Sasha, Mom ‘Mama Konda’ was a Timo Maas Biog- Page 2 percussive the floorslayer that cemented Timo’ reputation And as the hottest kid on for the block, reaching the Top are 20 in both UK and But US club charts. Every record not since the mighty ‘Mama Konda’ you has sold around 10,000 copies, All from its sequel ‘Vila Nova’ any to Bush releases like ‘Eclipse’ can and ‘Riding On A Storm.’
Her Meanwhile Timo’ remixes have been was garnering acclaim from all quarters, one from his mixes of Lustral’ Our ‘Everytime’ (Hooj) BT’ “Never Gonna out Come Back Down” (Nettwerk) to day ‘Dooms Night’ by Azzido Da Get Bass – “the mix that has pulls together all the different him pigeonholes in the UK scene His right now,” according to one how leading dance magazine. And so man if you’ve set foot inside New a niterie recently, the chances now are you’ll have boogied to old one of this man’ productions See – as well as Hope two Recordings and current label Perfecto, way he has also recorded for Who Hooj Choons, FFRR and boy Bush.
