If we think of disco and Italodisco as being to the '70s and '80s what rock 'n' roll was to the '50s and early '60s, and if we think of techno and acid house and some of the other visionary stuff in the broad electronic dance area as being to the '80s and '90s and onward what rock was to the '60s and early '70s, then let's say there's the tendency ( Read more... )

Chuck Eddy on Scooter:

Scooter Über Alles

The Slade comparison, it turns out, comes not only from their big-everywhere-but-the-U.S. status (see also Boney M, or soccer), but apparently also from the fact that their front-MC, a rectangular-headed drill sergeant named H.P. Baxxter given to doing onstage aerobics in outer space track suits, Shouts! ( Read more... )