Technotronic
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Technotronic

Technotronic came out of Belgium in 1989 with 'Pump Up The Jam,' a track that put a hip-hop vocal over a relentless electronic beat. The group was built...

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Technotronic, the Belgian dance floor engine

The group behind 'Pump Up The Jam' and a string of late-80s club anthems.

If you need a place to start, 'Pump Up The Jam' and 'This Beat Is Technotronic' frame it pretty well. They're the sound of a dance floor in motion.

Technotronic's 'Pump Up The Jam' was one of those tracks that just took over. It put a hip-hop vocal over a relentless electronic beat and became an inescapable dance floor anthem in 1989. Songs like 'This Beat Is Technotronic' kept that high-energy, sample-heavy formula going, defining a moment in club music.

The group came out of Belgium in 1989, built around producer Jo Bogaert with singer Manuela Kamosi and rapper MC Eric. They followed the first single with more hits like 'Move This' and 'Get Up (Before the Night is Over),' releasing a few albums in the early 90s before the lineup shifted.

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Technotronic came out of Belgium in 1989 with 'Pump Up The Jam,' a track that put a hip-hop vocal over a relentless electronic beat. The group was built around producer Jo Bogaert, who worked as Ya Kid K, with singer Manuela Kamosi and rapper MC Eric. That first single became an inescapable dance floor anthem, defining a moment in late-80s club music.

They followed it with more hits like 'Move This' and 'Get Up (Before the Night is Over),' songs that kept the same high-energy, sample-heavy formula. Their debut album was called 'Pump Up the Jam: The Album,' and they released a couple more records in the early 90s, including 'Trip On This... The Adventures of Technotronic' and 'Body to Body.'

The lineup shifted after a while, with Kamosi leaving and being replaced by Réjane Magloire. The group's sound was built on Bogaert's production, which pulled from house and hip-hop, and the interplay between the rapped verses and sung hooks on tracks like 'This Beat Is Technotronic.'

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