Sheffield

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Scooter

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Sheffield totally shows how versatile and powerful scooter can be! this album will blow your mind before you can say "wow!". it opens with the peaceful "mc's missing" and you think "hey lets sit n relax" and then suddenly- "don't gimme the funk" blows you off to the wall! i'm your pusher gets you to jump with a nasty melody that turns into jumpy bagpipe tune. "where do we go" is so cool you'd be sleeping dreaming on it. then sexdwarf which has a bit annoying tune that you'd love once you listen to it several times. "she's the sun" is relaxing and although most scooterfans prefer rave and techno, they admit that this gives scooter the edge over other electronic acts. they're too versatile to beat. it's a really cool balad which you gotta agree that scooter make different music. "space cowboy"'s pretty funny and so cool, "dusty vinyl" is nice and melodic, and "down to the bone" is loud and clear! "never slow down" is many people's favourite and it's similar to bomfunk mc's "freestyler" except much better words. "summer wine"- yet another ballad! wow, 2 ballads in an album, definitly a variety of styles, the female voice is really relaxing there. and for desert, "cubic" heaviest of tracks. cya posse, this is so much styles of music. a must- have for techno and house fans, and even dance.

Although this isn't a bad album, I highly recommend against buying it as your first Scooter disc. This disc is highly experimental for a Scooter album. Although the "off" songs are about as good as normal for Scooter, the "on" songs are a little too diverse. It would be kind of unusual for one person to like all the "mainline" songs on this album. Some are trancy, some are D&B, it's all over the map.

So, first timers, buy "Back to the Heavyweight Jam", "No Time to Chill", or "...And the Beat Goes On" instead.

I would hope Scooter figure out what they want to do and focus again for their next album, even if they do decide to strike out in a new direction.