The Stadium Techno Experience

The Stadium Techno Experience
Scooter studio album
Publication (s)	March 31, 2003
Label (s)	Sheffield Tunes
Genre (s)	Techno , dance
running time	47:32
production	Scooter, Jens Thele
Studio (s)	Loop DC Studios 1 and 2, Hamburg
chronology Encore - Live & Direct (2002) The Stadium Techno Experience Mind the Gap (2004)

The Stadium Techno Experience is the ninth studio album by the German techno band Scooter . It was released on March 31, 2003. The normal version, like almost every Scooter album, contains 12 tracks, the limited edition released at the same time includes a bonus CD with three remixes of the three latest singles at the time. In addition, the contained multimedia -Part of the second CD some photos, the uncensored video for the first single -Auskopplung Weekend! , as well as a making-of .

The music and lyrics were written by HP Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, Jay Frog and Jens Thele, except where existing songs were covered . The album was recorded in Loop DC Studios 1 and 2 in Hamburg-Bramfeld and released on Scooter's own label Sheffield Tunes Communications . Rick J. Jordan and Jay Frog acted as sound engineers and mixers, the MC parts were written by HP Baxxter alone, who gave himself the alias The Chicks Terminator for this album .

The cover was designed by Marc Schilkowski, who is also responsible for the design of other scooter productions. It shows a huge amplifier that is in the middle of a packed stadium. On the inside of the cover, two Buddhist monks sit in front of the amplifier, on the back cover the scooter members walk past him. The photos that were used in the booklet come from the Berlin team Kramer + Giogoli , who have already photographed for many music projects.

In Scooter's home country, The Stadium Techno Experience climbed to number seven on the charts. It came in third in Norway , fourth in Sweden and fifth in Portugal. In Finland and Austria the album came in at number 12 and 14, in the Netherlands and Switzerland at 28 and 35.

Tracklist

CD1

1. Ignition (0:36)
2. Maria (I like it loud) (3:55)
3. Weekend! (3:32)
4. Take a Break (4:15)
5. Pulstar (4:33)
6. The Night (3:21)
7. Roll Baby Roll (3:45)
8. Level One (3:34)
9. Like Hypa Said (6:23)
10. Liquid is Liquid (4:45)
11. A Little Bit Too Fast (3:45)
12. Soul Train (5:08)

CD2

1. Weekend! (N-Trance Mix) (6:25)
2. Nessaja (Flip & Fill Mix) (6:17)
3. The logical Song (Clubstar UK-Mix) (7:37)

music

The German-language e-zine Laut.de describes the music on this album as “undemanding vocal techno nonsense”. As with every album, Scooter use a wide variety of styles of electronic dance music, mainly trance , sample and cover songs and let out loud spoken chants from HP Baxxter.

The album begins with the intro Ignition , which has classical choirs woven into it, and then moves on to the energetic Maria (I like it loud) , which is an adaptation of the 1997 piece I Like It Loud by techno producer Marshall Masters , better known as Marc Acardipane , represents.

Weekend includes the refrain of the Earth & Fire song of the same name , as well as Strange World by Mike Dierickx aka Push. The chorus is sung high pitched by Scooter's longtime background singer Nikk . Take A Break uses the melody from the American Civil War song When Johnny Comes Marching Home .

Pulstar is a dream house cover of Vangelis ' song of the same name from 1976. The chorus for The Night comes from the 1984 hit of the Italo disco project Valerie Dore .

Roll Baby Roll uses a sample from ABBA's Arrival from 1976. In later versions it was omitted. Level One is an adaptation of the credits track of the computer game Turrican II for the Commodore Amiga .

Liquid Is Liquid is a cover of the track written by Eamon Downes in 1992 and released under the name Liquid .

Singles

Weekend!

The single was released on February 24, 2003 and reached number 2 on the Media Control Charts in Germany. In Norway it came in third, in Austria and Denmark in fourth, in the Netherlands and Finland in seventh, in Sweden in ninth. The single did not make it into the top ten in Switzerland and Australia , where it reached number 33 and 37. The video is included in the censored version on the multimedia part of the CD. In addition to the normal edition of the Maxi-CD , a DTS version was also released.

The associated video clip takes place on a lighted part of the clay floor, around which there is darkness. While Scooter play their song, Buddhist and Christian monks, nuns, Asian martial artists, bare-breasted women, traditional Indian dancers and the god Ganesha dance around them . HP Baxxter's costume is reminiscent of a Roman centurion .

Tracklist

1. Weekend! - Radio Edit (3:35)
2. Weekend! - Extended (5:10)
3. Weekend! - Club Mix (6:02)
4. Curfew (4:02)

Tracklist (DTS version)

1. Weekend! - Extended (5:10)
2. Curfew (4:02)
3. Posse (I Need You On The Floor) - N-Trance Mix
4. Weekend! - DTS version

The Night

The single is a cover version of the title of the same name by Valerie Dore from 1984 and was released on May 29, 2003. Again, the video was included as a multimedia part, the CD received FSK approval from 12th and reached number 10 in the media Control Charts in Germany. In Austria it was ranked 12th, in Sweden and Finland 14th, in Denmark 15th and in the Netherlands 26th. In Switzerland it was 34th and in Belgium 50th.

Tracklist

1. The Night - Radio Edit (3:24)
2. The Night - Club Mix (5:52)
3. The Night - Starsplash RMX (3:54)
4. The Night - Langehagen RMX (6:02)
5. Cordyline

In the video clip for The Night , HP Baxxter is lifted out of an ambulance on a trolley and driven into a morgue full of bare-breasted women and men. There he gets up from the dead again and begins to intone the song. The other two Scooter members come dressed in white coats and also bring a man and a woman to life. When a security guard comes over, the others get up again. He escapes and calls for help by phone. The three scooter members walk past him in white coats and step outside.

Maria (I like it loud)

The single was released on August 11, 2003. Contrary to the album version, Scooter play the song here with the original composer of the song Marc Acardipane & his MC Dick Rules. The song reached number 4 in the German sales charts, 21 in Switzerland and number 1 in Austria . An appearance in a night club was staged for the video.

Tracklist

1. Maria (I Like It Loud) - Radio Edit (3:39)
2. Maria (I like it loud) - Clubmix (6:11)
3. Maria (I like it loud) - Extended (5:08)
4. Giant's Causeway (3:47)

Web links

• Review from laut.de
• Simfy : "The Stadium Techno Experience"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ scootertechno.com - The Stadium Techno Experience ( Memento of the original from February 17th, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ discogs.com - Limited Edition
3. ↑ Booklet for the Limited Edition.
4. ↑ Booklet for The Stadium Techno Experience
5. ↑ kramer-giogoli.com ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ↑ charts-surfer.de
7. ↑ hitparade.ch NO, SE, PT, FI, AUT, NL, CH
8. ↑ laut.de
9. ↑ ^{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.  
10. ↑ discogs.com
11. ↑ Chris Hülsbeck references
12. ↑ discogs.com
13. ↑ hitparade.ch - Weekend! NO, AUT, DK, NL, FI, SE, CH, AUS
14. ↑ Video for Weekend!
15. ↑ hitparade.ch - Scooter The Night in AUT, SE, FI, DK, NL, CH, BE
16. ↑ Video for 'The Night'
17. ↑ hitparade.ch