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

[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."