Bosh Jams On A Fast Break

[koganbot]

The question is what is the genre.

skyecaptain says that, while no one in Internet history has thought up an adequate generic category for whatever the hell it is that Scooter does so very well, the answer is clearly "bosh jams."

I think Scooter'd officially be called Happy Hardcore, though I'd not be the one to hold an informed opinion on the subject.

Google reveals "Toronto's Chris Bosh jams on a fast break." But it seems to me that if it's a true jam it should be a slow break, so that there can be slow bosh jams. But that doesn't seem to be the Scooter style. I suppose a slow jam can have a fast break, if they're willing to change tempo.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I started using it in the sense of "bosh cover version" to describe the big eurotrance cover versions of, well, everything that you find on the Replay Dance Mania and Remixland series. But this isn't a useful definition of Bosh as in terms of sound and intensity it covers everything from quite poppy house through trance to gabber.

[koganbot]

But I have an intuitive sense of how to use the word even if there's no settled definition. Eurotacky covers are brash even if not fast, and most dance that revs up fast is a bit funny in being fast, like chipmunks or silent movie comedies played on the wrong projector. And Scooter is faster than standard (and were faster in their earlier days, right) and do the cover tackiness and the silly sounds, and bassline gets to be honorary bosh in that the wibbly bass can add bosh that interrupts the melody, or the pop melodiousness adds bosh to what otherwise might be troppo serious sound weirdness.

Whereas the slow movement to Beethoven's Seventh is not bosh - unless someone does a bosh version.

[koganbot]

Though I suppose if someone did a nonstop bosh set that was so relentlessly bosh that the boshness was losing all impact, then the DJ's finally inserting straightup the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra's version of the Seventh Symphony could be the MOST bosh moment of the night!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing happens more often than you might think. But instead of Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the dj might interrupt the boshing flow by dropping 'Why' by Carly Simon or something similarly slow and cheesy. This is much more likely to occur at Bangface though, where seriousness is Frowned Upon.

[koganbot]

Also, "trance" seems to have poppier connotations among you guys than it does in the States.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Trance often does very well in the UK charts! Well, compared to techno or drum'n'bass anyway. I'd say Basshunter were trance (schaffle-trance?), but that's mainly because I find it i) boring ii) difficult to dance to iii) appears to be liked by the sort of dudes I didn't get on with at school, rather than because of the type of noise they are making.

[koganbot]

OK, to me Basshunter are Europop, basically, with a dance underbelly. Whereas "trance" is longer and willing to space out and not have middle eights but just kind of drift along having peaks and valleys. I once said to a friend, "trance is failed disco." She immediately disagreed: "It's evolved disco."