DJ HELL | TEUFELSWERK

By Ada Hutchinson

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GENRE | LANDMARK TECHNO

VERDICT | ANOTHER MASTERPIECE

RELEASE | 4.28.09

LABEL | INTERNATIONAL DEEJAY GIGOLO

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To old ravers like me, DJ Hell is more than an icon and more than a legend—he is a god. Teufelswerk ("Devil's Work") is his 16-song masterpiece, divided into two halves: "Night," a Chicago-land-inspired slab of beats; and "Day," which leans more on his authentic krautrock roots. He collaborates with all the right people, too, like Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music), acid electro magician Anthony Rother and, yes, P. Diddy. Sean Combs is an unabashed lover of minimal grooves (I know because my friend emailed me a cellphone vid of him jacking to some serious minimal techno) and his vocals on "The DJ" are just hilarious. "I hate when a motherfucker plays a four-minute version," he says. "This goes out to all the motherfuckers that like 15-, 20-minute versions of a motherfucking record ... I'm just making that shit for them motherfuckers that's in the afterhours spots, them divided souls, them motherfuckers that's catching the holy ghost through the music." Preach it.