Scooter's success vs happy hardcore's lack of...

Didn't al those those other silly Dutch and German happy hardcore hits of Dune, Party Animals, Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo, Technohead, Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Marusha, Nakatomi etc etc etc get into the UK charts back in 1992-94?

Only Scooter remains though - all those other producers are currently busy riding on the nu-skool gabber bandwagon.

there's a new school gabber bandwagon?

not meant sarcastically by the way,tell me more...

the only one of those to break big in the UK was Technohead.

they didnt break big - they had ONE hit - the marvellous but stupid 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' - then those pesky Smurfs went and ruined it all

Marusha was kinda cool tho - Mrs Westbam if i'm not mistaken

>Didn't al those those other silly Dutch and German happy hardcore >hits of Dune, Party Animals, Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo, >Technohead, Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Marusha, Nakatomi etc etc etc get >into the UK charts back in 1992-94?
>Only Scooter remains though - all those other producers are >currently busy riding on the nu-skool gabber bandwagon.

BEEP! that's not correct.

Scooter singles would sell 50 or 60 units a week in a record store I worked in. This was 1996, and that was an amzing number, some weeks beating the the Spice Girls. My town is full of dumbfucks obviously.

New school gabber, as in Hardstyle - Technoboy, Deepack, DJ Isaac, Pavo, Lady Dana, Donkey Rollers, DJ Zenith, Smurref, Ueberdruck, etc. Mainly from Italy, Germany and Holland, think UK Hardhouse with more/dirtier bass. Not as fast as the old gabber, and less overdriven kicks.

surely scooter is on more of a hard house tip than happy hardcore. seeing as hard house has basically taken trances place (cf mauro picotto at gatecrasher thing when back in the day would have been jules all the way), its not surprising that the uk is finally ready for scooter. funnily enuff, whern i was in russia, we saw scooter and dj alligator project everywhere, and just thought that it was a pile of eurononsense that at least we'd never see in the uk...but.....

But but but....Mauro Picotto is not a hardhouse DJ by any stretch! Just look at his recent setlists (at Gatecrasher even), it's all tech-trance/techno: Umek, Marco Zaffarano, Chris Liebling, Speedy J, Secret Cinema, Joy Kitikonti, Ricky Effe, his own tracks, etc. Definitely not your average Andy Farley/BK/Nick Sentience/Fergie/Lisa Lashes/JP/Tom Harding hardhouse DJ. But yes, hardhouse was the big thing at least in 2000 and 2001, although it has given quite a lot of way to techno, hardstyle and hardtrance as the "hard & monotonous" style currently en vogue. I don't know where one would place Scooter but I really can't fit him into the hardhouse style - he pretty much sounds like a relic from 1994, has hardly changed a bit since "Hyper Hyper" and "Move Your Ass", still the pitched up samples, still the silly MC'ing, etc. Mindless partytracks will score everywhere...