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Techno - Better Than Madonna?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:11 pm
by wub
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
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:15 pm
by elbe
dun no why they are suprised
scooter>bike
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:15 pm
by wub
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.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:21 pm
by wub
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.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:38 pm
by misk
ohhh! techno
pop! now i geddit!
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:27 pm
by a man called dave
Scooter = Techno
The Kooks = Heavy Metal
Lift Music = Jazz
Newton Faulkner = Nething other than shit
anymore for anymore
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:32 pm
by santy
Eugh Scooter make me feel sick.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:34 pm
by corpsey
Why does everyone except me have fucking awful taste?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:56 pm
by tuck
I can't help feeling this thread should have been called "Techno - Better than having a blunt rusty nail hammered into your scrotum?"
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:07 pm
by sand leaper
15 years of copying The KLF and STILL blowing up the charts. The world truly wants to be fooled.