Loud (Timo Maas album)

Loud
Loud
Studio album by Timo Maas
Released	19 March 2002
Recorded	2001
Genre	Electronic, house, breakbeat
Label	Kinetic, Perfecto
Producer	Timo Maas, Martin Buttrich
Timo Maas chronology
Singles from Loud
	"Ubik: The Breakz"; Released: 2000; "To Get Down"; Released: 2002; "Help Me"; Released: 2002; "Shifter"; Released: 2002;

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Alternative Press	^[3]
The A.V. Club	favourable^[4]
Blender	^[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[6]
The Guardian	^[7]
PopMatters	favourable^[8]
Q	^[9]
Release Magazine	7/10^[10]
Spin	6/10^[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.

^ "Loud by Timo Maas". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
^ "Loud - Timo Maas - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
^ 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]
^ "Timo Maas: Loud". The A.V. Club. 29 March 2002.
^ Maas translates this superclub-oriented sound -- all tectonic bass and whooshing stero-panned effects -- into home-friendly music. [Apr/May 2002, p.115]
^ "Music Kills Me; Loud". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2002.
^ "Elasticated beats". The Guardian. 8 March 2002. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2002.
^ "Timo Maas: Loud".
^ 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]
^ "Timo Maas: Loud - Release Music Magazine review". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
^ There's plenty of that spacey/dirty sound on Loud, even when the tracks don't fit the trance template. [Apr 2002, p.122]

[1] "Loud by Timo Maas". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2013-06-18.

[2] "Loud - Timo Maas - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-08-17.

[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. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2002.

[7] "Elasticated beats". The Guardian. 8 March 2002. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. 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]

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