THC: Are you afraid that too many people think of Timo Maas just as the guy who remixed Azzido Da Bass' "Doom's Night?"

TM: Yes, but thank God I did some other good mixes this year, such as Green Velvet ["Flash"]. I know Azzido is the key to the big success at the moment, but it's good like it is. These are the rules in the music business. One song makes you famous, and then the people just realize, "Oh, there's something new. We are listening from now on to his shit." I have been doing music for six years, producing, putting out records and now the time is right. I just do what I love, and Azzido is very authentic. This is just a good track-we just tried to do something interesting, and this is what happened. What can I say?

THC: When you've been asked to describe your sound, one of the phrases you like to use is "wet, hard funk." Do you feel that maybe the dance music scene is becoming too interested in creating neat little genres? Are you afraid of your music being pigeonholed?

TM: You can't pigeonhole my music, which is for me the most important thing. I don't have any description-the owner of [German record label] MFS was the inventor of this "wet and hard" description. It fits my sound because the people are dancing, they are wet and the sound is quite hard as well. That's one description, but I just call it good music. I give a shit for styles, genres, whatever. I play everything, but it has to be good music.

THC: So what do you see yourself doing five or ten years down the line? You're working hard, doing four, five or six gigs a week on the Music for the Maases tour. Is this still what you want to be doing?