Back to the Heavyweight Jam

Back to the Heavyweight Jam
Scooter studio album
Publication (s)	September 27, 1999
Label (s)	Club tools
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Eurodance
Title (number)	12
running time	53:30
production	HP Baxxter , Rick J. Jordan , Axel Coon and Jens Thele .
Studio (s)	Loop DC Studios 1 and 2, Hamburg
chronology No Time to Chill (1998) Back to the Heavyweight Jam Sheffield ' (2000)
Single releases August 23, 1999 Faster Harder Scooter November 15, 1999 Fuck the Millennium

Back to the Heavyweight Jam is the sixth studio album by the German Eurodance band Scooter . It was released in 1999 and, like almost every Scooter album, contains 12 tracks. The album was ranked 3rd in Finland, 5th in Sweden and 7th in Germany (gold). In Switzerland , the album could reach 25th place in Norway Place 35th

The songs were written and composed by Axel Coon, HP Baxxter, Jens Thele and Rick J. Jordan, while Axel Coon and Rick J. Jordan acted as executive producers and sound engineers. All MC texts are from HP Baxxter. The album was recorded and produced in Loop DC Studios 1 and 2 in Hamburg and published on Club Tools in cooperation with the distribution of edel music .

The cover has an olive gray background on which a dull yellow, glowing in the dark, megaphone symbol can be seen in a circle. Above is the band name, under the circle Back to the Heavyweight Jam in capital letters. The Gover was designed by Marc Schilkowski , the designer of other scooter productions. Additional booklet photos were shot by Olaf Heine . The back cover shows the three scooter members seated.

Track list

1. Keyser Soze - 1:12
2. Watch Out - 4:15
3. Faster harder scooter - 3:47
4. Well Done, Peter - 3:54
5. Fuck the Millennium - 4:28
6. The Revolution - 4:05
7. Psycho - 5:05
8. The Learning Process - 4:55
9. I'll Put You on the Guest List - 5:11
10. Main Floor - 5:36
11. Kashmir - 4:45
12. No Release - 6:17

music

Keyser Soze is an intro . The name comes from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects , in which the main villain gives himself this pseudonym. The melody for this consists of the five notes that were used in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977 in order to be able to communicate with the aliens via synthesizer. In the intro a backward message is hidden: When you play the incomprehensible woman's voice at the end backwards, she says Use Your Dildo (USER your dildo ).

The first regular song, Watch Out, is a typical 90s trance piece . Apart from the distorted title line, there is no voice. Fasterharderscooter then begins again with the loud chanting of HP Baxxters . It contains a sample of the song Come On by Michael Kronenberger & Steffen Harning alias Axis or Milk & Sugar from the mid-1990s. The additional guitar was played by Helge Vogt.

Well Done, Peter mostly covers the song Embargo! by the French duo Philippe Beaureperre & David Toinet alias Embargo! , which came out the same year as Scooters.

Fuck the Millennium is an adaptation of The KLF 's song of the same name, which they released under the name 2k .

The Revolution uses a sample from Who Do I Care by Tobias Menguser & Jürgen Herbarth alias Hermen , which was also released in 1999.

The Learning Process is an adaptation of Tom Wilson's Technocat , while Main Floor covers Art Of Trances Madagascar . One of the Main Floor melodies is from Acid Phase , a 1995 piece by Emmanuel Top .

Kashmir uses excerpts from "Living on the Ceiling", a song by the British synthpop band Blancmange from 1982. HP Baxxter originally started out as a synthpop singer.

Singles

Fasterharderscooter

The single was released on August 23, 1999. The single was very successful in Finland and Sweden , where it reached second and third place in the charts. In Germany the single landed in 7th place, in Switzerland in 20th place and in Austria in 24th place.

Track list

1. Fasterharderscooter - 3:42
2. Fasterharderscooter - Full Length - 4:24
3. Fasterharderscooter - Club Mix - 5:21
4. Fasterharderscooter - Sunbeam Remix - 9:23
5. Fasterharderscooter - Signum Remix - 7:20

In addition, a limited version of the single with the bonus track "Monolake" was released.

Fuck the Millennium

The single was released on December 12, 1999 . The track has been completely restructured for the single release and only has a few passages in common with the album version. The song contains the tune of Wheels by Jimmy Torres from 1960 , played by his group The String-A-Longs . Dozens of cover versions of the song already existed, so in 1961 Billy Vaughn was number one in the singles charts in Germany with his version for 4 months .

Fuck the Millennium was also able to prevail, especially in Scandinavia : 3rd place in Sweden and 4th in Finland. In Germany, the single made it to number 11, in Austria to number 15 and in Switzerland to 61st place in the charts.

Track list

1. Fuck the Millennium - 3:58
2. Fuck the Millennium - Extended - 5:15
3. New Year's Day - 6:39

The accompanying video clip was shot as Scooter and backstage scenes were recorded.

Web links

• official homepage
• Simfy : "Back to the Heavyweight Jam"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scooter - Back To The Heavyweight Jam. In: scootertechno.com. January 1, 1999, archived from the original on June 7, 2007 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . 
2. ↑ hitparade.ch
3. ↑ ^{a b} Booklet for Back to the Heavyweight Jam
4. ↑ Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Directors Cut DVD
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} cover versions. (No longer available online.) In: scootertechno.info. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Scooter Music - Curious Scooter Facts. In: scooter.hitsof90.com. June 14, 2007, archived from the original on August 8, 2007 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . 
7. ↑ hitparade.ch
8. ↑ hitparade.ch
9. ↑ Video for Fuck The Millennium