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ARTIST
TITLE
House Music Box (Past, Present, No Future)
FORMAT
CD
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HELLEX 003CD
HELLEX 003CD
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RELEASE DATE
1/15/2021
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DJ Hell returns with the album House Music Box (Past, Present, No Future). In contrast to its predecessor album Zukunftsmusik (GIGOLO 302CD/LP/X-LP, 2017), with his new work Hell looks back to the glorious early days of house and techno in Chicago, Detroit, and New York City. Obvious references are the heroes that vibrated the dancefloor from the late '80s, i.e. luminaries like Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, and Lil' Louis from the Chicago house scene, or the legendary radio shows of The Electrifying Mojo from Detroit. Not to be forgotten are, of course, the NYC house of Larry Levan or the Nu Groove records from the early 90s -- all of them served as musical godfathers for Hell's House Music Box. Back to the roots. In line with this, Hell's opus number six emerged as a classic album: House Music Box simply comprises eight gripping new bangers from the groove manufacturer that is the super gigolo Hell. The record is not only a concept album about the beginnings of electronic DJ and club music, but also a danceable history lesson. Past, Present, No Future -- even if Hell's deep bow to the trailblazers and pioneers of electronic club music was already completed when the corona pandemic broke out, the subtitle of House Music Box proved apt even so in the light of the circumstance that especially the club scene is seriously affected from the coercive measures of the crisis. It was therefore quite prophetic that on "Jimi Hendrix" you can hear pieces of the last interview that the guitarist gave shortly before his controversial death. "I can't build anything right now, you know, because of the things that are happing right now. I just have to lay back and think about it all." House Music Box is, in many ways, the right record at the right time. Because as DJ Hell speaks about his album: "House music for me has always been a spiritual experience, a higher, different form of communication, so to speak." So, let's listen carefully what he reports about his musical excursions in the past, present and future of house.
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