Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. U Can Dance
2. Electronic Germany
3. DJ
4. Disaster
5. Bodyfarm2
6. Hellracer
7. Wonderland
8. Friday Saturday Sunday

Disc 2:

1. Germania
2. Angst & The Angst Pt. 2
3. Carte Blanche
4. Night Clubbing
5. I Prefer Women To Men Anyway
6. Action
7. Hell's Kitchen
8. Silver Machine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12854 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

Customer Reviews

Hell is here
DJ Hell or Hell as he's known now,has been around for ages.I remember him from a tresor compilation in 1993 and all these years later he's still producing interesting techno/electronic music 'of quality and distinction'.
He even roped in Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music and P Diddy this time.
The album is a nice collection of repetive beats and elctronic swooshing sounds and works well as a continuous listen.
For me he's one of the most consistent music producers from the house generation along with Felix Da Houscat.

ELECTRONIC GERMANIC
Am I the only person out here who liked, make that LOVES (present tense!), Hell's previous LP, 2003's jet black punkfunk creepy crawl NY Muscle? It's certainly seemed like it over the inervening half decade. In reaction to that album's puzzlingly muted response, Hell has drawn on his experience & infuences & sidestepped seamlessly into the old school of techno - packing Teufelswerk full of chilly robot voices, mesmeric synth stabs, skittering hi-hats, a couple of heavyweight cameos (there's no room for Erland Oye or that DFA geezer this time 'round) &, underneath it all, that unrelenting 4am throb. It's no masterpiece but it's THIS close. Inevitably, there are a couple of tracks that I'd definitely prefer to have seen resigned to the dumper (specifically "The DJ" [seriously, has P.Diddy said anything interesting EVER?] & the disappointingly half-arsed Hawkwind finale), but at over two hours along across two crammed & eclectic discs, I guess virtually nobody will like ALL of it (but almost EVERYBODY will like some of it!). That said, it's difficult to imagine any fleeting electronic music fan not being totally knocked out by the opening "U Can Dance" (Hell's collaboration with Bryan Ferry), "Electronic Germany"'s obsessively detailed Kraftwerk hommage, the awesome (frankly!) 13+ minute "The Angst" or most of the music on the second, more thoughtful & soundtrack-inspired disc. Plus it LOOKS great too. Heil Hell.

Hell knows how he does it
It's the first electronic album of the year to be consistently good. I mean, he's made a techno album which can be accessed by all. There is no concession to the mainstream, he continues to make hard techno but the way he uses his sounds are what sets him apart.

Very Germanic sounding, its streamlined and minimal in places, yet there's always something happening, even if its a hi-hat or a squiggly bassline, to keep the listener interested, both for the head and the feet.

'U Can Dance' with Bryan Ferry is style personified, Hell and Ferry are very chic guys and it shows, the song just pulses along with a terrific hard beat. 'Bodyfarm' is another great song. The song with P Diddy is good ryhthmically, although listening to P cursing for the sake of it and thinking he's well it, is just plain tiresome.

The first disc, Night, is aimed more at the feet and the second disc, Day, is definitely more head based. 'The Angst' is simply beautiful, I normally dislike acoustic guitars, but this one is played, rather than strummed, and along with the bassline and female voices in the back, it makes to be quite a memorable song.