He exists on prana, right?
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Hazel Robinson: Sheffield Dave gets the same autotune treatment as the Saturdays on “All Fired Up” but against a thudding glam stomp of sample that you’d expect, with some young person’s dubstep cheerfully thrown in. It’s enthusiastic and carefully produced but never quite builds into the euphoric juggernaut Scooter are capable of, the vwwwworp no substitute for a rave horn in their hands.
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Katherine St Asaph: Dubstep is not Jesus in a pair of headphones. Not everyone has to l-l-l-let the beat drop.
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Brad Shoup: Seventeen pages of smiley-slinging Europeans at Scootertechno.com couldn’t illuminate the titular phrase, so let’s say it’s about, oh, David Garrard. Everything else is hard-charging electrorock alternating with the Nick Straker Band, and I must admit Nick’s still looking fine. Even in dubstep form, he offers a way out of this bosh, chipmunk’d festival fodder.
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Kat Stevens: I can fully believe that Sheffield Dave subsists solely on deep-fried protein powder and Relentless Super Maxx Strength with no ill effects. However, for any kids reading this, it is important to note that a lack of proper nutrients to the brain impairs decision making and as such is highly detrimental to the production of otherwise stupidly enjoyable Eurobosh.
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Pete Baran: Scooter aren’t a band who do “new directions,” but this is a stab at something different. I’d be loath to call it dubstep, but the four to the floor beats which were always Scooter’s knocked-off stock in trade are absent here. There is still tempo, and a hopelessly autotuned Sheffield Dave building up to a straight sample of one “A Walk in the Park,” paying for Nick Straker’s dinner again. Having seen Scooter live, anything that mixes things up a bit is welcome, but this isn’t anywhere near their finest hour.
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Edward Okulicz: It’s easy to think that Scooter were always ahead of their time, but it’s a bit of a shock to think that I’ve heard most of this track’s tricks on top 40 radio just this year. Not sure if that says more about how mild this is compared to the average Scooter track, or how ADHD-afflicted a lot of chart pop is these days, but “David Doesn’t Eat” is pretty pleasureless for all its attention-grabbing noises.
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Jonathan Bogart: I recognize the feeling of being trolled, and I don’t like it.
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