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I love all the little glimmers of hope in your guys' eyes. "Oh its taking them so long, it must be original this time!" Don't get your hopes up. Covering and sampling is what Scooter is and does since the beginning. Whether that means the album will be awesome or not depends on how they implement it, but don't expect anything original.

As for the date, it sounds like legitimate. The guys just have way too much touring going on the pump out another album before the end of the year. I'm sure we'll hear new material throughout the tour but a new album? No way. Give them some time. An album a year is impressive, let alone something most bands simply cannot do.

I'm sorry but march is too long. and I don't understand why some people tracks will be made in a hurry. the last album was finished in August 2009. So they had time enough! before that album they had time from the end of December 2007. come on, that's time enough. during the 90's it was an album every 10 month with more original tracks and more side projects and remixes. if everything was like in the past, than we had an album or 2 more cause in the beginning there were only +- 6 lyricals tracks and 5 instrumentals. the last albums where 10 lyrical which is too much. and it's not that easy to come up with fresh lyrics. and 2 more albums with more instrumentals would have been nice and probably a record for most of the artists. but now it's mostly 2 instrumentals the latest 2 albums were very weak. only metropolis has some potential...

It;s indeed a fact that the more lyrical tracks you have, the more work it is to write the album, because good lyrics take time to devellop. But well, I as a lover of lyrical tracks am very pleased that the last album had so much tracks with HP in it though But such albums with many single style tracks aren't easy to write, that for sure, although instrumentals are for sure also not easy to write, but lyrical tracks take double the work I recon.
It's indeed impressive that Scooter managed to give us a new album almost every year, great work from the guys

I don't really have a very big problem with the sampling, but I agree with older statements on the forum.
I'd rather want them to sample melodies and stuff from the 70's - 80's, than from a few years, or months, back.

Like when they made the Sheffield Jumpers single, they sampled this song from the 70's.
That's better than sampling a recently released song.

Though, even if they sample melodies, they can very well change them. No need to keep it 1/1.

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I'd rather want them to sample melodies and stuff from the 70's - 80's, than from a few years, or months, back.

Indeed, that way of sampling is less offending to haters, and one gets really interesting results when parts of tracks that were made in a totally different style are putinto a Scooter tune with Scooter style

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Michael's announcement is also fake

i think hp said a while back that they were happy with michaels work and enjoy working with him, and he aint leaving just yet

i too enjoy a mix of instramental tracks, it adds a liitle break from hps lyrics and adds a mix too, ,

i think that the 4th chapter has had a lack of instramental tracks, which is what fans now wanna hear, i think the new album should have more than 2
also the amount of hp tracks has got a little repetative now, you kinda know what to expect now when a hp track is coming
so a mix of both will go well,also tracks like phycho will sound good too i think at least you get 2 for 1 in a single track

i agree, it seems scooter are taking longer to work on new albums now, but also scooter seem to have a more heavier tour list these days too, one time scooter would do a tour and that would be at apart from a few gigs here and there, but now, scooter are all over europe, thus this delays any time to work on a new album

now the way i see it scooter will work heavy from jan to march 2011, so far there is no dates in 2011 apart from hamburg so that will be the bulk of the work
now from now till jan, there is a few gigs to do so work is likely under work daily but in bits, and from march2010 to sept 2010 scooter were working on the concept of the new album and tying stuff to plan on.

as for the lead single i do think we will hear it at STT and ir will be released jan 2011

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They have some time before Clubland starts

but they need to rehearse for the shows I guess^

A single during the X-Mas tour could be likely and another one short before the album is out in march

If they plan on releasing the 1st single in 2010, I'd say they should release it before December starts. If not, it will disappear in the amount of Christmas songs released in December.

This possible 1st single, I don't know if they plan to premiere it on the STT tour, but I think they should await the release until January, to avoid the flood of Christmas songs released by the end of the year.
Then, a 2nd single in late February/early March, 2-3 weeks before the album. Cos I reckon the album will be released during the late half of March.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceDDQ0O8Kg

maybe there is someone here who can translate the article accurately word for word without using a translator???

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So at this point we're just crossing our fingers and hoping this date to be the forthcoming albums release. Could it not just be hinting toward a new single? I think we've jumped the gun a little and I'm guilty of just jumping to conclusions too. Perhaps excitement should be reserved until an official announcement has been made.

Good point May, with the "stroke" they could indeed mean the new single, and not a new album. Both, an album and a single can be called a "stroke" from the guys...so indeed maybe we are getting excited about the wrong fact, and in march will get a single and no new album, yes

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Wer’s nicht zum Konzert schafft, darf sich auf März 2011 freuen: Dann erscheint der neue Geniestreich der Kultband.

as a native german speaker this sounds to me like it's a new album coming in march 2011. "Geniestreich" could refer to both a new album or a new single but I would assume it's a new album coming in march.
If you can trust the source, though...

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I don't know why they've taken more time with UTROTT and this new album than they usually do

i would assume that the new style is taking a while to get used to, plus scooter have had a heavy year in terms of like events and tours, the is 3 tours this year alone, to me scooter did start to get back in the studeo in march, i would imagine the plannig stage was back then, so lookin at that it is like normal timing, as said the live events have slowed everyting down a bit just like last year with the production of UTROTT if it wernt for the live events then the album could have made a late 2008 early 2009 release, oh yeah regaring the new album as well, this year scooter for the first time decided to do a follow up of the UTROTT tour, without that and clubland then i w ould have imagined a 2010 release ofthe new album

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If they plan on releasing the 1st single in 2010, I'd say they should release it before December starts. If not, it will disappear in the amount of Christmas songs released in December.

this is what i have been saying all along, the xmas song will riun any chance of success like TSAMH, i recon it would have made top 20 if it was released in jan 2010 rather than nov 2009, i too think scooter will play it live at STT, maybe more, i remember way back before the release of JAOTW, TQIWITQ was already out, but scooter played JAOTW in an event somewhere aswell, so you never know, i think the STT tour would make great promo for the new single and a jan 2011 release would be perfect to kick the year of, and a second single before the album

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Could it not just be hinting toward a new single? I think we've jumped the gun a little

maybe, we still have to wait for these interviews, although i too wonder if the paper add was part of it as well as the new tour trailer, regarding the officail site, you never know. but i do think a new single will be played live at the STT tour, if this is the case then a march release would be a little late

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I'm glad I'm not the only one unsure and sceptical.

yeah, me too, i did wonder, but untill we have some concretenews all we have is what we know,

at the very least there is definatly gonna be some new stuff in march, also remeber that march could be a target date, scooter have been working back in the studeo since march 2010, even if it was just planning stages, in august we found out the they have produceed some stuff, but nothing is complete at that time
and now we know for sure that scooter are actually recording the new album as the officail site states so as i said i think scooter have set them selves a targert date of march, we all know that they like to work on a tight scedule, and it also looks like scooter decided to keep mike, as by now i would have thought he would have left, if he is working on the new album too, then he is staying

I dunno where to post this information, but here goes:

I'm on the Blutonium Records newsletter (Biggest german Hardstyle label) and on this weeks edition, I saw this bit:

The german act Scooter have more than 23 top ten hits, and have sold over 25 million records and earned 80 gold and platinum awards. FLARUP was booked to be a part of the Scooter LIVE concert in Denmark! With banging performance from FLARUP and at least the legendary Scooter - this was a night to remember. Thanks to Scooter, JL Management and all the fans!

That's pretty interesting, eh? I thought most hardstyle acts wanted to distance themselves from Scooter as far as possible.