Here Do We Go - As Scooter Would Say
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"Is there not even a rave?"
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Hans Peter Geerdes in action. On the stage of the scooter frontman HP Baxxter means.
Photo: AP
HP Baxxter feels like a young professional. On Friday, the 46-year-old playing with a scooter in the O2-World.
Lots of pyrotechnics and beats per minute, confetti bursts and go-go girls expect the boisterous audience, when the Hamburg techno bard scooter on Friday with their "The Big Mash Up Tour", the walls and eardrums in the Berlin-based O 2 will bring World vibrate . Their chief shouter HP Baxxter explains what his mother from his job and how he keeps ever for his job at jurors 'X Factor' exercises.
Mr. Baxxter, from the summer you can see as a mentor in the TV talent show "X Factor". Were the go-go dancers on your show actually cast from you personally?
Sure! We work with an agency in Lithuania, which filters out other dancers for Ibiza events. But we also test out new girls how to dance the Sun It is the basis of photos or small movies so do not judge. It is better just not when a girl is pretty. The overall picture has to be right. Also from the movement, it has to fit.
Is your arena-concert event a kind of substitute for the Love Parade?
This would of course be glad if it would be seen as that. In any case, when we celebrated just as hard!
How do you tell your parents your job ?
Since I need to explain anything. I had to make earlier - before we had success. I did come from space, from the province and wanted to major in a city. And then my father asked: "What do you want doing?" And I said, 'Dad, I want to make music. ! His pop star 'And then he said: "You think too, that sit in Hanover and wait on it only appears that Hans Peter Geerdes, or" And I said, "Yes, you'll see" The success. course taken years. My father died in 1991, he has not even seen.
And your mother?
My mother has always said earlier, I had to grow up and cease to be slow times, with 30 still to go to the disco is silent at the moment, as it went with "Hyper, Hyper" through the roof. From there she was thrilled and has collected every scrap - how mothers are like that. It is now our biggest fan! She is often in Hamburg there when we play. Then it is always as of chains.
If you "Hyper, Hyper" hinterhergegrölt still on the road?
Yes, I think it will be so until I drop dead. But some also call it "How much is the fish?" - Then I smile sympathetically. Or sing döbdöbdöb this ... I'm glad that they had not only a big hit. Instead, there are several things at all, the one can be called after.
Is it really hard to make a scooter song?
I think it's actually incredibly difficult to produce a real hit, the recognition factor, a gripping groove, a coherent beat and something new is that it does not sound like an infusion of another number. Anyone not in there in the matter says, of course, fast times, "Oh, that sounds just like always." But on closer listening one realizes that we use for each album again very different beats and rhythms.
They come from East Friesland. What was your early experience with the beat?
As a small child I was there when my father was the "Beat Club" on television anguckte. Techno beat that time there was not so. When my mother had time for a cure, they brought me in for an elderly neighbor. The whole room was papered with posters of his rock star. That impressed me. I wallpapered my room as well - although I did not know a song. My first record was "Twenty Century Boy" by T. Rex. Then Sweet and Slade. Later I changed to Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. And then it all went as a teenager with New Wave: Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The Cure, and electronic items such as Ann Clarke, I liked that. End of the eighties came Acid House. And since then has been turned over to me the switch: the new wave era was over for me, and it was only towards techno and trance in the main.
Have you often go to events?
Until 1993 I was living in Hanover, there were large rave events, where many Englishmen were present. So I knew early on the MC-stories. That was style icon for me. Hamburg, however, had more of a club culture. That was not mine. I was even a bit disappointed when I came to Hamburg. I only asked: "Is not even a rave here," I am often moved back to Hanover.
And after almost 20 years, Scooter annoys you the Raven still do not?
Ne, not at all. On the contrary, that turns me on! For it is this: When you hear the car radio, you hear only soft washed hits. Scooters can be heard as much. When I hang up my clothes, and then makes it "Bamm Bamm" out of the speakers, which for me is the elixir of life.
You are 46 years old. Do you in your job to be professional young people?
I am anyway. If I thought I would do it now, I'd rather quit. I get bored quickly when someone is set to go and play golf or just nice to eat at most times and then go home. I am also privately always the one who says to his friends: "Come, let us again somewhere."
You still play golf?
No, not yet. I have no time to rest and somehow, the interest for it. I like it not: Suddenly it's chic, each playing golf. Then I deal better with my tropical fish, this is completely out.
They should also like to read artists' biographies.
The Led Zeppelin I found really impressive! As we have seen that the time has been celebrated with a dynamic range that you can hardly beat. When associated with the private jet flown across America, the groupies did not know where they are sudden. And the band did not know where they have actually been collected. As they say already: Hats off!
Interview: Katja Schwemmer.
Concert: 6th Fourth, 20 clock, O 2 -World, Mill Street 12, tickets: € 35 to 46.50.
It's in Rotterdam in case someone wonders 
It starts at 0:20sec and even Kontor reacted on it. Nice for the maker 
