Techno - Better Than Madonna?

wub · Post by **wub** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:11 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7396111.stm

German techno pop group Scooter have caused a shock by knocking Madonna off the top of the UK album chart after just one week, despite little mainstream exposure.

It is the biggest coup yet for Blackburn-based independent record label All Around the World, who say they are catering for a thriving suburban club scene.

Peering down from the summit of the album chart last week, Madonna probably did not think she had any reason to fear a trio peddling steroid-enhanced dance beats, pumped-up cover versions and high-octane trance melodies.

Jokes

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:15 pm

dun no why they are suprised

scooter>bike

wub · Post by **wub** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:15 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:Scooter are most definitely NOT techno!

I know that.

You know that.

The BBC, it would appear, do not fully understand that.

wub · Post by **wub** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:21 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:
Wub wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:Scooter are most definitely NOT techno!

I know that.

You know that.

The BBC, it would appear, do not fully understand that.
yeah, think techno would probably be a much bigger music (or at least more widely respected) if it wasn't mis-labelled with any amount of other 4x4 electronic music....gives a bad impression to those that don't know.

There's a brilliant bit half way down the page where the label manager of AATW (responsible for N-Trance, Flip N Fill, DJ Casper, Cascade and other such groundbreaking acts) tries to justify it;

Their customers are the tens of thousands of people who can be found at nightclubs in towns and suburbs every weekend, he says.

"The clubs that hit the headlines tend to be the named clubs - everyone knows of Cream and Gatecrasher, but what people don't tend to talk about is the club on every street corner.

"It might be a Ritzy or Ikon or Oceana. There are so many of these clubs and they're in every suburban centre. If you take Manchester, it might be the outlying areas - Oldham, Bolton, Stockport.

All the town centres tend to be quite cool and built for young executives, who are probably a little bit older, and then in the outside areas you get more kids from 17 to 24 going to clubs, and they tend to be the ones where we do particularly well.

misk · Post by **misk** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:38 pm

ohhh! techno pop! now i geddit!

a man called dave · Post by **a man called dave** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:27 pm

Scooter = Techno

The Kooks = Heavy Metal

Lift Music = Jazz

Newton Faulkner = Nething other than shit

anymore for anymore

santy · Post by **santy** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:32 pm

Eugh Scooter make me feel sick.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:34 pm

Why does everyone except me have fucking awful taste?

tuck · Post by **tuck** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:56 pm

I can't help feeling this thread should have been called "Techno - Better than having a blunt rusty nail hammered into your scrotum?"

sand leaper · Post by **sand leaper** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:07 pm

15 years of copying The KLF and STILL blowing up the charts. The world truly wants to be fooled.

Techno - Better Than Madonna?

Techno - Better Than Madonna?

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