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5.0 out of 5 stars
What's this love I see?, January 8, 2006
SCOOTER'S GREATNESS!
Back in the house, Scooter has released another single EP based on "The Night", taken from the full 2003 album, "The Stadium Techno Experience". This is one of Scooter's best songs, and in my opinion, this short album has some good remixes. A little known fact is that The Night is actually based on an Italian disco (Italo) song from 1984 by the very obscure Valerie Dore. If you ever come across this song, it's very euro-disco 80's sounding, with cheesy lyrics. The main chorus in Scooter's The Night (the high-pitched voice) is also the main chorus in the original song from 22 years ago. The original song had some other lyrics in addition to the main chorus, but Scooter doesn't include these. On the whole, Scooter's Night is much better than the original.
THE NIGHT (RADIO EDIT) - This song is similar to the one on The Stadium Tehcno Experience. It has a couple of extra lyrics by H.P. Baxxter, and there is a happy hardcore piano playing chords with the chorus.
THE NIGHT (CLUB MIX)- The club mix is like the orginal Scooter Night, except without H.P.'s voice. There is some extra percussion at the beginning and end.
THE NIGHT (STARSPLASH REMIX)- This is probably the most interesting remix. It features a synthesizer playing the chorus in addition to the high-piched female voice. There is a cool rhythm towards the end of the song.
THE NIGHT (LANGENHAGEN REMIX) - This remix is weird. There's a phone call between two Germans at the beginning and end, and a rather dissonant theme throughout the piece. Halfway through the song, the high-pitched vocal keeps repeating "What's this love". It gets kind of annoying after a while.
CORDYLINE - I don't even know why this song is on here. It's got nothing to do with The Night. It's probably the best piece on the album, though. It has a nice chord progression, and features some piano riffs and licks halfway through the song. Cordyline has a techno beat, and really reaches out to the soul. One of Scooter's more melancholy songs.
The music video to "The Night" is as strange as H.P. Baxxter's hair. The beginning has H.P. on a table with wheels, without clothes except for a cloth. He looks dead, as he is rolled between two other tables with a man and a woman, both without any clothes on (you must remember that Europeans don't care about nudity; it doesn't mean anything to them). He wakes up, and yells, "Rumble in the jungle!" The rest of the clip features H.P., Jay, and Rick as three men in lab coats bringing what appear to be a dead man and woman to life, and they fall in love. It's almost like the Adam and Eve story, a la Scooter. I don't get it at all. But who cares? It's Scooter! The music is awesome, and that's all that matters!!
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