The Stadium Techno Experience

by

Scooter

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the reason i gave this cd 5 stars is not because its got the best Scooter songs(its close), but because it works so well as an album. all the songs flow well into each other. and this is the first Scooter full length cd that i can listen to from begining to end without skipping over any songs. i first heard scooter when i was living in Greece in 1995. i heard "Friends". since then some of their songs have annoyed the hell out of me, but i've loved others. "Faster Harder Scooter" and "the logical song" have been my favorites..until now. "Maria" and "Weekend" are the strongest tracks here. absolutely incredible songs. along with "Pulstar" they make this one of best Scooter albums ever--definetly the best Scooter album in years. now if only America would catch on

There are a few fine and inspiring tunes on this CD. However, after I've listened it a few times I am now under the impression that it's no match for the better Scooter performance I know of, like Summer Wine, The Age of Love, etc.

I could recognize quite a few remakes from various artists' work. It looks like Scooter have a hard time composing their own themes. In particular, they keep quoting The KLF - even the name of the album seems inspired by their "Stadium House Trilogy" and the CD cover by the one of "The White Room". Too bad Scotter have't learnt more good stuff from those Brits, like doing good intros, using various rhytms not just the old tired boom-boom-good-for-all-techno one, a better ambient and a little more natural flow of the music. The break-in-the-middle plays a very important role which Scooter constantly wastes by just breaking the songs randomly and starting again like there was no break. I wonder if they really know how to use these breaks or they just need something different from the otherwise plain repetitive lines?

Then there is the inevitable high-pitched cartoonish-digitized voice that I've never liked.

So I guess people in clubs will dance a few weeks to this CD and then at most two songs will be remembered by the end of the year.