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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But until the last 3/4 years or so Scooter *haven't* been really popular in the UK! They had one big hit with 'Ramp...' when I was at university and then buggered off back to Germany (where they are bigger than GOD). It's only since the Clubland brand has taken off properly that Scooter have been welcomed back into the UK fold, and even then, everyone in London is looking around all bewildered, going 'who? what?' (when you get as as far out as Croydon and Romford and Watford you get more representative).

The bosh cover thing goes right back to acid house, where silliness with sufficient accompanying beats was in Great Demand. If you believe some of the commentary on the era then apparently about 10% of the nation's youth were pilled up to the eyeballs for most of 1988/9 (hahaha reliability of sources = more than questionable!). Then at some point in the 90s everyone lost their sense of humour and started dancing to Serious Trance/Euphoric House. Of course I was sitting about watching sodding Trumpton at the time obv so I can't verify this in any way.