Loud
Studio album by
Timo Maas
Released19 March 2002
Recorded2001
GenreElectronic, house, breakbeat
LabelKinetic, Perfecto
ProducerTimo Maas, Martin Buttrich
Timo Maas chronology
Connected – Perfecto Presents… Timo Maas
(2001)		 Loud
(2002)		 Music for the Maases 2
(2003)
Singles from Loud
  1. "Ubik: The Breakz"
    Released: 2000
  2. "To Get Down"
    Released: 2002
  3. "Help Me"
    Released: 2002
  4. "Shifter"
    Released: 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press[3]
The A.V. Clubfavourable[4]
Blender[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB[6]
The Guardian[7]
PopMattersfavourable[8]
Q[9]
Release Magazine7/10[10]
Spin6/10[11]

Loud is the debut album by German DJ and producer Timo Maas, released in 2002. Maas had previously released albums of other performers' material which he remixed but Loud is his first studio album.

Critical reception

John Bush of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars but other reviews were more mixed.[12] 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".[13][14]

Commercial performance

In the United Kingdom, the album reached number 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" (No. 14), "Shifter" (No. 38), and "Help Me" (No. 65).[15] In the United States, the album peaked at 47 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and seven on the Top Electronic Albums chart.[16] Two songs from the album, "To Get Down" and "Shifter", hit the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.[16]

Music

Several reviewers have noted a distinctive 1980s feel to the music on Loud.[12][13][14] 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.[12] 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" (featuring Kelis) (Maas/Buttrich/Rogers/Hermann)
  2. "Manga"
  3. "Hash Driven"
  4. "Shifter" (featuring MC Chickaboo) (Maas/Buttrich/Green)
  5. "Hard Life"
  6. "That's How I've Been Dancin'" (featuring 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" (featuring Martin Bettinghaus) (Maas/Buttrich/Bolleshon/Bettinghaus)
  12. "Like Love"
  13. "Caravan" (featuring Finley Quaye) (Maas/Buttrich/Quaye)
  14. "Bad Days"

Charts

Chart performance for Loud
Chart (2002) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[17] 68
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[18] 46
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[19] 83
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[20] 32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] 94
UK Albums (OCC)[22] 41

References

  1. ↑ "Loud by Timo Maas". Metacritic.
  2. ↑ "Loud - Timo Maas - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Unfortunately, the pretentious spoken-word ramblings, corny hooks and unremarkable trance put Maas, along with Paul Van Dyk and BT, in a less illustrious category: top-notch DJs with second-rate albums under their belts. [May 2002, p.90]
  4. ↑ "Timo Maas: Loud". The A.V. Club. 29 March 2002.
  5. ↑ Maas translates this superclub-oriented sound -- all tectonic bass and whooshing stero-panned effects -- into home-friendly music. [Apr/May 2002, p.115]
  6. ↑ "Music Kills Me; Loud". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 22 March 2002.
  7. ↑ "Elasticated beats". The Guardian. 8 March 2002. Retrieved 8 March 2002.
  8. ↑ "Timo Maas: Loud".
  9. ↑ Admittedly Maas is hardly reinventing the wheel here, but there's a freshness and pace that's been missing too long. [Mar 2002, p.126]
  10. ↑ "Timo Maas: Loud - Release Music Magazine review". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
  11. ↑ There's plenty of that spacey/dirty sound on Loud, even when the tracks don't fit the trance template. [Apr 2002, p.122]
  12. 1 2 3 Timo Maas - Loud at Allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  13. 1 2 Sean Meddel. Review of Timo Maas - Loud Archived 2019-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. Lunar Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  14. 1 2 Review of Timo Maas - Loud Entertainment.ie 14 March 2002. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  15. ↑ Timo Maas page at Official Charts Company website. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  16. 1 2 Timo Maas - Loud: Awards at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  17. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 173.
  18. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Timo Maas – Loud" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  19. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Timo Maas – Loud" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  20. ↑ "Charts.nz – Timo Maas – Loud". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  21. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Timo Maas – Loud". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  22. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
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