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

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

nah mate, snot fast enough for happy hardcore innit.

STADIUM BOSH is the closest i've come to a title, in the same way that KLF were stadium house...

O/T

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Frank, did you receive a Spoonie Gee mp3 notification from yousendit? It's just occurred to me you might have thought it was YSI spam and deleted the message.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I like Bosh as a genre name - short, succinct and suitably descriptive in Scooter's case. But using it as a catch-all for anything with a 4/4 kickdrum over 130bpm is predictably problematic.

[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.

Okay, what about Nindie

[koganbot]

Is "Nindie" used anywhere but poptimists? I used "Nindie" in a review for Paper Thin Walls, and they asked me about it and I explained it was "standard British slang for 'indie'," and they bought this and felt really out of it for not knowing.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Not sure if my pun on Jock Jams was clear, but Jock Bosh is also a possible permutation of the phrase. I figure most of the Scooter stuff qualifies as Eurotacky covers, but as carsmilesteve says, there's a certain stadium/anthem element to it that isn't a prerequisite of what usually gets called bosh at poptimists.

[koganbot]

OK, what would you say would be good examples of the various different varieties of bosh? E.g., Scooter is stadium bosh. So _____ would be _____ bosh. (Helps if you provide links.)

Cum On Feel The Bosh

[koganbot]

Where do Scooter tend to get played?

And how is it that the album gets to open at number one while the single barely slinks into the top 50? From the sound I'd expect them to be a singles act. (But I'd read that the album is being sold with a limited edition hits collection attached, so maybe that explains the album's success.)