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You'll all remember HP's+Rick's statements ("We've been experimenting with electro house for the production of the new album, but it isn't really our cup of tea. Now we will go back to the roots and we will definitely not follow any trend.") after "The only one" had flopped. So I expected TBMU to be mainly a back-to-the-roots-album with a few electro house tracks on it. But when TBMU was releases it was mainly a (electro) house/dubstep-album with only a few jump-/hardstyle- and (happy) trance/dance-tracks. So I thought that they had TBMU finished as a trend-album and added "C'est bleu", "Close your eyes" and "Summer Dream" to provide at least a few tracks that are more "classical". This would also have explained why there are 16 tracks on the new album - the original TBMU should contain 12 tracks plus "Friends Turbo" as a bonsutrack and after the album had been delayed they started to produce those 3 "classical" tracks to satisfy their fans at least a bit.
But after the release of "The Big Mash Up" there were statements that didn't fit to that theory: According to HP "C'est bleu" was produced as one of the first track and there is a video with Rick finishing "Beyond the invisible" as the last of the album tracks and "BTI" isn't a "classical" track at all. Further Rick said that he was into the new dubstep stuff at the end of the album's production which wouldn't fit to his former statement that they would not follow trends and go back to the roots. Were those back-to-the-roots-announcements in late spring/early summer only a joke or did they delay those plans for the next album?
Don't get me wrong: I like "The Big Mash Up" even if house isn't my cup of tea either - but nevertheless those different statements seem a bitz strange to me.

I think "back to the roots" doesn't mean "happy hardcore". It means songs with the typical Scooter traditions (fast beats, hard/"deep"/"full" bass, energetic synths, earworm refrains, uplifting and sometimes funny/self-ironic shouts, good and round productions where one part fits to the other perfectly). If a song is dance, happy hardcore, jumpstyle, hardstyle, (happy) trance, hard trance or something different or a mixture of different styles doesn't really matter - as long as everything fits together. An anthemic chorus that works best with trance sounds shouldn't be put into "hardstyle clothes", but a happy hpv-chorus within a jumpstyle/hardstyle or happy hardcore track can work in a great way.
I think the achieve to produce most of the tracks on an album within a certain style that is trendy or might become trendy isn't the best way for Scooter. They should give each song what it needs to be as good as possible and not to fit into a scheme that is more or less trendy at the moment.