- Summary: The popular German trance DJ offers up his first set of original songs, featuring guest vocals by the likes of Kelis and Finley Quaye.
- Record Label: Kinetic
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 10
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Mixed: 4 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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So, in a strange way, Loud is an extremely successful album for Maas: it rids him of the trance tag, has enough vocal dance-pop to win over even more admirers, and is so diverse that everyone will find at least one enjoyable track.
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80Maas translates this superclub-oriented sound -- all tectonic bass and whooshing stero-panned effects -- into home-friendly music. [Apr/May 2002, p.115]
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80Admittedly Maas is hardly reinventing the wheel here, but there's a freshness and pace that's been missing too long. [Mar 2002, p.126]
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Like his predecessors', the results here are decidedly mixed.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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AnshulJ8Cool CD. Play it Loud and Keep on Dancin'.
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Nikolas8very sexy, eerie electro-funk record
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MacM2Two strong singles and a tonne of lacklustre filler. Stick to DJ-ing you ugly Euro!
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