Artist: Technotronic
Genre(s):
Dance
House
Discography:
Recall
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Hey Yoh, Here We Go Maxi
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
The Greatests Hits
Year: 1991
Tracks: 15
Body To Body
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Get Up Maxi
Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
Pump Up The Jam
Year: 1989
Tracks: 12
Of the many studio-based dance euphony projects which dominated the charts during the erstwhile '90s, few were so popular, or such an marvellous winner taradiddle, as Technotronic. Emerging from Belgium -- never a musical hotbed in the first place -- the multicultural mathematical group helped press the mysterious bass grooves and exigent beats of house euphony out of the club setting and into the pop mainstream; ironically, they did so largely by concealing in arrears the photogenic visage of an African-born style model world Health Organization, it was by and by revealed, did non tied do on their records. In reality, Technotronic was the inspiration of Jo Bogaert (tangible name Thomas de Quincy), an American-born philosophical organisation teacher earth Health Organization relocated to Belgium in the former '80s in the hopes of mounting a life history as a record manufacturer. Bogaert's intention was to fuse family with rosehip skip, and towards that aim he sent demos of his work to a change of rappers, including the Welsh-born MC Eric and a Zairean-born stripling named Ya Kid K (nee Manuela Kamosi), at the meter a member of the Belgian rap chemical group Fresh Beat Productions.
Technotronic's number one individual, 1989's "Pump Up the Jam," was a smash hit across Europe and eventually the U.S. While the record featured the raps of Ya Kid K, she was nowhere to be seen in the accompanying video, which or else featured Zairean-born style model Felly lip-synching the lyrics; small did fans realise that not only was Felly nowhere near the studio at the time the single was recorded, in the true she did not regular speak a word of English. She was also featured on the cover of Technotronic's debut LP, Pump Up the Jam: The Album, farther blurring the lines between truth and fiction; in the end, Bogaert admitted that Felly's services had been engaged strictly to build the grouping with "an double." When Technotronic toured in support of the 1990 hit "Pose Up! (Before the Night Is Over)," Ya Kid K and MC Eric were alone behind the microphone, and Ya Kid K was also rightfully featured in the song's video. The LP Head trip On This: The Remixes shortly followed, and in 1992 Ya Kid K went solo, albeit with Bogaert motionless in the producer's fanny; her debut album, One World Nation, scored with the impinge on "Be active This," originally a Technotronic abbreviate released as a individual subsequently finding success in a cosmetics commercial. The 1995 Technotronic return attack Hark back was non a success.
