I've got one message for the next decade... (Move Your Ass - March 1995) What will be remembered in fifty years time when thinking about the nineties? What will stand the test of time as being cool and influential compared to all Titanics, Michael Schumachers and Love Parades? One band will always spring to mind - Scooter. With 5 platinum and 18 gold records in the last four years this trio from Hamburg not only ranks between the most successful European chartbands but has sold more records than any other band of the dance/techno genre - ever! But apart from the impressive sales-figure of six million units, their most outstanding achievement is their endurance. While other shortlived dance projects failed to deliver a decent album or at least a reasonable follow-up-single after an initial charttopper, H.P. Baxxter, Rick Jordan und Ferris Bueller succeeded throughout the years in producing one top-5-hit after the other and keeping a steady fanbase of 250.000.
Together with manager and co-producer Jens Thele the threesome released four longplayers, before the massive single-collection Rough And Tough And Dangerous put an appropriate end to the first Scooter-chapter in January 1998. Its the first page of the second chapter! (How Much Is The Fish?, June 1998) Its the summer of 98 - and its a new beginning for Scooter. Ferris has left the band to pursue a solo-career. He has been replaced by Axel Coon, the highly competent and motivated studio assistant of the band. The 23-year-old DJ has already been involved in the recordings to the first single (How Much Is The Fish?) to be taken from the forthcoming album No Time To Chill. There is an overall feeling of awakening within the band. The fun is back, grins Rick. And even H.P. has been infected with the overall enthusiasm. A brand new era in the history of Scooter has begun, he declares euphorically. An atmosphere that has a positive influence on the whole production of the new longplayer: old and fruitless routines have been abandoned to be replaced by a healthy simplicity (Rick). This creative process of renewal for a band like Scooter (who released an incredible thirteen singles and four albums in the last four years) is vital. Composition, production, mixing, mastering - the boys do it all themselves. There is no spilt between the actual music makers and the performing act as practiced by nearly all current dance projects. Between their time-consuming studio-duties, H.P., Rick und Axel have to take time out to do photo- and video shootings, interviews, cover design and perform their cult gigs all around Europe. And its especially the high quality of their full-speed live concerts that set them apart from the rest. Its no surprise they play venues with the capacity of up to 40.000.
Taken from www.edel.de .
