Azzido da Bass — Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix). A brief story behind the track

Musicians often dream that after releasing a track, they will wake up famous, and the efforts spent on the track (time, money and hopes) will immediately pay off. Usually, it doesn’t work like this: for years, bands remain in obscurity, releasing album after album, and despite the stories about how a hastily released track can bring popularity, sometimes it takes several years for a track to make its way in the world. Who remembers the original Dooms Night by Azzido da Bass? Everyone has heard the Timo Maas remix, although they don’t even know they did. Timo had been trying to become more visible since the mid-nineties, releasing records and taking commissions for remixes. But everything happened one afternoon in 1999, when a remix of Dooms Night was recorded in just three hours. Recorded and sent into the void. Only a year later, Timo’s remix began to tear up European discos.

“Martin Buttrich and I did that. We felt comfortable with it, and that’s about it... I’m not really a trance guy, and I don’t really like the original. The only think I liked was the Flat Eric sample. So I rocked that. The real (impact) we only saw a year later or so. That was just our understanding at the time of doing something cool and unusual. It needed some time, to be recognized, as it was not sounding like anything else at the time (and still doesn’t...) And that remix still slaps! I’ve dropped it a few times when I’m messing around behind the decks and it always flowed nicely in between contemporary tracks. No matter if it’s trance club or a house club or a techno club. It’s just a funk record and that works in every kind of club. It’s cool, it’s dirty and the breakdown’s really weird. People in clubs like that.”