Duke Shin

Dirty. Funky. Liquid. Heavy. Sinister. German superstar DJ Timo Maas' name alone conjures up all sorts of slippery allusions to sounds and feelings that are easier to feel than explain. In the height of the progressive movement's millennium-era stranglehold on dancefloor creativity, Timo Maas rose to prominence with massive club hits like "Der Scheiber" and "Ubik," which might've carried a lot of the sonic weight of the club bangers of that time, but also contained unique underlying funk rhythms to supplement their breaky, squiggly, tech-nasty cores. But rhythms aside, Maas has seemed to develop an affinity for high-profile vocal collaborations, with his most recent album (2005's "Pictures") carrying Neneh Cherry, Placebo's Brian Molko and Kelis (who also appeared pre-"Milkshake" on 2002's "Help Me") along for Mr. Timo's wild ride--a ride that only get wilder when Maas attacks a big nightclub like Crobar. The globetrotting veteran hulks over the decks, running though his arsenal of bottom-heavy tracks with a keen sense of when to make sounds go wonky. The progressive era that birthed his initial success might be extinct, but with a prevalent tendency towards the electro-break rhythms that seem to be sprouting up around today's up-and-coming club-bangers, it should be interesting to see what Maas has been up to in his first Chicago appearance in two years.

Timo Mass at Crobar, 1543 North Kingsbury, (312)266-1900, on December 29, 10pm-4am. $21 presale tickets, $10 before midnight with rsvp to purefuture.com (2006-12-22)

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