Scooter - Jumping All Over The World album flac

I consider this a masterpiece of postmodern anti-intellectualism. The stadium rave group Scooter gives an unadulterated expression of the euphoria and intensity of the European stadium rave experience. Takes common cliches of hard dance music but shakes them down to their core spirit - often cringey yet bittersweet essence of popular rave culture.

Another great release, one of the best when it comes to Hardcore/ maquina musics, very powerfull, extremely alived, perfect to dance and to sing along, the cd2 is also a generous offer with classic tunes. Highly recomended!!!

The absolute masterpiece on this album is Lighten Up The Sky, fantastic hardstyle track, cut in two halves with sweet melody, then pumping forth as none of other Scooter songs on this album. The reworked version with HP's vocals on Jumping All Over The World - Whatever You Want, is not worth a comment.

What the hell happened to Scooter? This album is terrible. I'm not referring to Disc 2 as that contains many classics but whats going on with Disc 1? A slight change of direction is understandable but the fusion of Jumpstyle/Hardstyle with the signature Mickey Mouse vocals and melodies/harmonies just doesn't work. They've tried to jump (excuse the pun) on the Jumpstyle/Hardstyle bandwagon in an attempt to be "down with the kids". Jumpstyle/Hardstyle, in my opinion, is fairly minimalistic and Scooters 'touches' only serve to make it sound far too busy and messy. Jumpstyle/Hardstyle often uses the bass 'kick' to convey, again, a minimalistic bassline (by tuning the kick) but Scooter attempt to use it as they would with a traditional bassline, which sounds odd to say the least... especially as it sounds like they've used a sampled kick which when pitched up or down (to create a bassline) is not timestretched resulting in many parts of the tracks sounding completely out of time! "Neverending Story" starts off promising with the tried and tested Scooter formula but then it all goes horribly wrong. They go far, far too over the top with the constant clap on every beat... and ruin the breaks which could have actually been quite pleasant to listen to. "The Question..." is what were they thinking? A bit of Technohead's 'I Wanna Be A Hippy', a sample from Real to Reel's 'I Like to Move It', a sample from DJ Kicken's Louder [DJ Jacky Jump Mix] and the cliche'd 'Woo. Yeah. Woo. Yeah' from way back in the late 80's/early 90's. Running out of idea's or something Scooter? Another track that ends up sounding badly sequenced courtesy of the roaming bassline/kick "Enola Gay" despite the repeated claims of 'Hardstyle' (baby) and, once again, the constant clap on every beat it is absolutely nothing like what I would term Hardstyle. Then there's the blatant use of the 'Hardstyyyyyyyle' sample from the NEXUS VSTi expansion pack? Oh, and come on Scooter... ELO's Enola Gay has been done to death!! "And No Matches" is one of the better tracks on Disc 1 and is a little more like what we expect from Scooter... Good old cheesey dance with the typically stupid vocals: 'Coffee is not my cup of tea' "Cambodia" is a poor rework of a Vorwerk track with the same title, only Scooter have gone and ruined it. Shame really as Cambodia was one of the first Jumpstyle tracks I heard and is quite possibly my favourite. "I'm Lonely" sounds far to similar to Frozen Flames by Jekyll & Hyde... Well, apart from the break down which at least benefits from not having that annoying clap on every beat. "Whistling Dave" Tetris? Oh please Scooter, you really were struggling with this album weren't you?! "Marian" is obviously from the 80's bless her... There's nothing else that would explain this track. An 80's sounding electro track with a modern house beat, quite frankly a bizarre choice for inclusion on this album. "Lighten up the Sky" actually sounds like a proper Hardstyle track but oddly suffers from the lack of Scooter signature elements that make their tracks instantly recognisable. Its a good track I guess but it could have been written by anyone. Actually, I'm bored now... and so are you probably. So I'm not going to bother reviewing the rest of the tracks! It just seems like Scooter are trying to be cool when their unashamedly cheesey and happy sound was all their own and made them cool to begin with! Sorry for such a negative review but this album falls far short of Scooters previous works.

Thanks for the corrections. Now I know why Marian sounds so dreary! ;)I later realised that Cambodia was by Kim Wilde (and family) as I stumbled upon it on YouTube. However the point I was trying to make was not who originally wrote it but that Scooters version is pretty much a bad copy of Vorwerks version.Yes, of course, OMD not ELO. My bad! I got one letter right ;)

"Marian (Version)" is a song by The Sisters of Mercy. The original is not electro, but goth rock. You did, however, accurately guess its period. It was first released on the album "First and Last and Always" in 1985. Scooter's cover stays true to the original while lending it a modern sound."Cambodia" is not a Vorwerk track. It is yet another product of the 80's that was later covered by Vorwerk. It was originally performed by Kim Wilde and her father and brother are credited for writing it."Enola Gay" was written by Andy McCluskey of OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), not ELO.