While not one of my personal favorites of the Hennes & Cold works, you've got to admit that they just have an extremely competent catalog overall. Even their mediocre songs with vocal samples from weird hip hop or R&B songs are good. They're regular stuff, without those cheesy vocal samples, are almost uniformly excellent. There's almost nothing by Hennes & Cold that I don't like (maybe "Born Blind" and "Shhhh!"—although even those aren't bad, just not as good). Kai Winter's other major collaboration, Derb, is a bit more experimental at times, so it has some really excellent stuff and some... well, nice try material too.
His solo works collection is even more experimental, plus it includes a lot of earlier works, but it's also got some really great material. But even as much as their own works, some of these guys are as famous for their remixes of other people's stuff. (This is especially true of Scot Project, but all of the hardtrance big-shots make it true to a certain degree.)
Where I really first noticed Hennes & Cold was from their remix of "Retribution" by Titchy Bitch and the Fallen Angel. Holy crap, that's a great song! "I know over 200 ways to kill a man!"
Sadly, it's been so successful, that you can't even hear the original anywhere, because the Hennes & Cold remix is the only one that's available anywhere. So I can't compare it, but it is what it is this many years after the fact. Sigh.
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