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Gigolo Records (Label Boss) / R&S Records / Disko B / Kompakt
DJ Hell (Helmut Josef Geier) is a pioneering German DJ, producer, and label founder whose career has spanned more than four decades. Emerging from Bavaria’s club scene in the late 1970s, he became one of Germany’s first house and techno DJs, blending genres from New Wave and EBM to electro and punk. After shaping Munich’s early techno movement and co-founding Disko B in the early ’90s, Hell gained international attention with his 1992 hit “My Definition of House Music.”
In 1997, he launched International Deejay Gigolo Records, a label that became synonymous with the electroclash movement and helped ignite the global 1980s revival. Gigolo released groundbreaking music by artists such as Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Vitalic, and Jeff Mills, cementing Hell’s reputation as a tastemaker uniting underground techno with pop and fashion aesthetics.
Beyond the dance floor, Hell’s work has intersected with art, design, and fashion, collaborating with figures like Raf Simons, Michael Michalsky, and Donatella Versace, and being photographed by Karl Lagerfeld. His albums —including Munich Machine, NY Muscle, Teufelswerk, and Zukunftsmusik — reflect his deep ties to German electronic heritage while reinterpreting it for modern audiences. A cultural provocateur and innovator, DJ Hell remains one of the key figures linking techno’s experimental roots with its global evolution.
