About Hell
Hell, born Helmut Josef Geier, a German DJ who has been behind the decks since 1978 and is widely credited as a founder of the electroclash sound. He took his first residency at Club Libella in Kirchweidach in 1983 before organizing Munich's first acid house party at Park Café in 1987 and DJing Run-D.M.C.'s Munich aftershow the same year.
In the early 1990s he held a residency at Babalu Club, Germany's first afterhours venue, and in 1993 spent a year in New York as a resident DJ at Limelight alongside Jeff Mills before relocating to Berlin in 1994 and working with the record store Hard Wax. His 1992 self-produced single "My Definition of House Music," issued on R&S, became a club hit selling more than 100,000 copies, while his Tresor residency, begun in 1992, anchored him to one of techno's most influential rooms for decades.
In 1996 he founded International Deejay Gigolos, a label and DJ collective that helped define the electroclash movement of the following decade. His sets have ranged across New Wave, EBM, electro, house and techno, and he has played major events including Loveparade, Mayday and Fuji Rock, a career spanning New Wave, punk and rave eras alike.