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[Electronica/Beats] MrScorpio's HOUSE FIRE Podcast #298 - May Flowers Edition 05 May 2023 Mixcloud: http://bit.ly/Mixcloud298 D/L: http://bit.ly/DL-HF298 Shows: http://bit.ly/ScorpioPodcasts Feat: Name/Artist/Album People of the Kemet (Dub Version)/Byron The Aquarius/Black Man Of The Echo Tree Stand (Club Mix)/Honey Dijon/ Cor.Ece/Stand Alto Adige (Original Mix)/Steve Bug/Alto Adige Spoons (feat. MNEK & Syron) (CERCA Remix)/Rudimental/Home (10th Anniversary Edition) Raw Meat/Shortcut/Raw Tools, Vol. 1 Raw Sax (Original Mix)/Ralph Session/Shir Khan Presents Black Jukebox 35 The Best Is yet to Come/Scan 7/Heist Classics Vol. 01 Peligrosa (Original Mix)/Black V Neck/ Buitano/Peligrosa Friends (Extended Mix)/Dimitri Vegas/ Steve Aoki/ Chapter & Verse/Friends Move Left Move Right (Extended Mix)/Chapter & Verse/Move Left Move Right Me and You and Her/Adryiano/Heist Classics Vol. 01 A Milli (SIDEPIECE Extended Mix)/Lil Wayne/ SIDEPIECE/A Milli Profit/Ivy Lab /Ivy Lab Immortal/Hamdi/Immortal The Swamp/Drone/Dance With the Devil Grateful/El Michels Affair & Black Thought/Glorious Game DEMONS/SBTRKT/Toro Y Moi/THE RAT ROAD Gamebreaker feat. Earl Sweatshirt/Domo Genesis & The Alchemist/No Idols + Bonus Track 4th Feb (Stay Awake)/Alfa Mist/Variables Receipts feat. Snook Da Crook & Supreme Cerebral/Budamunk x Ill Conscious/Sakanoue EP Round Midnight/The Doppelgangaz/Black Cloak Lifestyle (Deluxe) Space For The Kidd/Move 78/Space For The Kidd / Neuralgia Three Drums/Four Tet/Three Drums Charade/Dame Black & Project Logic/Pardon Me If You Feel Away EP Today/Homeboy Sandman/Still Champion Screens Fallin/Curren$y & Jermaine Dupri/For Motivational Use Only Vol. 1 Look at This/Royce Da 5'9/The Heaven Experience EP Almost Midnight Jazz/ChasBeats/Neon City Dreams Cosmic Changes/Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Lonnie Liston Smith JID017 Send me your tracks at Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/mr_scorpio Check out all your tracks on my show THE HOUSE FIRE/ every other Friday @6-8 PM GMT on InvaderFM: http://invader.fm Stream the podcasts at my Mixcloud: bit.ly/MrScorpiosShows Friend me up on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mrscorpio247 Look me up on Tumblr: http://mrscorpio.tumblr.com Shoot me your videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrScorpio Peace, Scorp
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Tracklist:
Since I Left You • Stay Another Season • Radio • Two Hearts In 3/4 Time • Avalanche Rock • Flight Tonight • Close To You • Diners Only • A Different Feeling • Electricity • Tonight • Pablo's Cruise • Frontier Psychiatrist • Etoh • Summer Crane • Little Journey • Live At Dominoes • Extra Kings
Due to this album having several variations of each song differing from release to release, we've opted to include the Discogs link for this specific variant of the album. The Spotify and Youtube links below are for the 20th Anniversary version of the album.
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You’re fucking embarrassing. Changing races of characters that have great representation in them and changing them to some random black race. Not everyone has to be fucking black and your blackwashing the shit out of them. If you want a black character, make your own oc. You’re a racist piece of shit, blackwashing characters that don’t need to be. Chongyun’s fucking chinese and your making him rcta by making him Caribbean and bahamian? Embarrassing.
If you want black ppl so much, go fly off to africa and get yourself a black dick there.
bro’s fr in our asks having an aneurysm about a character that is NOT REAL ☠️. crying over a nigga that has a big blue glowing sword… this is genshin bruh… do you understand the concept of r e p r e s e n t a t i o n? only a mf who breathes fan-fiction behaves this way.
btw you can’t be bahamian and caribbean. that’s like saying you’re south american and argentinian… does that make a lick of sense, sweetheart?
secondly, this has nothing to do with africa. the bahamas is NOT located in africa, so pls get your geographical prowess aligned before addressing my friend. also, there’s black dick… everywhere. NOT just in africa. pls be so fr for two seconds. there is also white dick in africa … africa is quite literally racially diverse ☠️
you’re in our asks crying about this when there’s black fanart of an asian character… everywhere. you’re mad at… headcanons… THIS is so embarrassing. needa address that ph balance before me cuh… leman making black hc’s (that aren’t canon btw) isn’t harming anyone but you. yet we’re racist? how? tell me? pls? pretty please 🥹? let me know?
besides, would you rather want us to easily and proudly represent a race that we’re completely familiar with or not? ‘cause it’s very much HARD to write chinese culture without making a mistake, no matter how much research you do. we want to creatively write properly. no one can write a better black character than a black individual.
and with that, we’re officially turning off anonymous asks. i’m not very fond of pussies… anyways, speaking of black ocs, Y’ALL WE GOT MORE OCS OTW ‼️‼️‼️‼️
anyway, moral of the story, 🎶he’s transracial, transracial🎶:
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Makes me happy happy 😃
Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin
I came to win, battle me, that's a sin
I won't ever slack up, punk, ya better back up
Try and play the role and yo, the whole crew'll act up
Get up, stand up
(C'mon) c'mon, throw your hands up
If ya got the feelin', jump up towards the ceilin'
Muggs let the funk flow, someone's talkin' junk
Yo, I bust him in the eye
And then I'll take the punk's hoe
Feelin', funkin', amps in the trunk
And I got more rhymes than there's cops at a Dunkin' donuts shop
Sho' nuff, I got props from the kids on the Hill
Plus my mom and my pops
I came to get down, I came to get down
So get out your seat and jump around
Jump around
Jump around
Jump around
Jump up, jump up, and get down
(Steady on the right) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the left) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump!
I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe
If your girl steps up, I'm smackin' the hoe
Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs
I got more rhymes than the bible's got Psalms
And just like the Prodigal Son, I've returned
Anyone steppin' on me, you'll get burned
'Cause I got lyrics, but you ain't got none
If ya come to battle, bring a shotgun (shotgun)
But if you do, you're a fool, 'cause I duel to the death
Tryin' to step to me, you'll take your last breath
I got the skill, come get your fill
'Cause when I shoot the gift, I shoot to kill
I came to get down, I came to get down
So get out your seat and jump around
Jump around (jump around)
Jump around (jump around)
Jump around (jump around)
Jump up, jump up, and get down
(Steady on the right) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the left) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the right)
(Steady on the right)
(Steady on the left)
(Steady on the right)
(Steady on the left)
I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top
I never eat a pig 'cause a pig is a cop
Or better yet a terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tryin' to play me out like as if my name was Sega
But I ain't goin' out like no punk bitch
Get used to one style and yo, and I might switch
It up, up and around, then buck, buck ya down
Put out ya head and then ya wake up in the Dawn of the Dead
I'm comin' to get ya, I'm comin' to get ya
Spittin' out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya
I came to get down, I came to get down
So get out your seat and jump around
Jump around (jump around)
Jump around (jump around)
Jump around (jump around)
Jump up, jump up, and get down
(Steady on the right) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the left) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the right) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Steady on the left) Jump, jump, jump, jump!
(Everybody jump) Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump!
Yo, this is dedicated to Joe "The Biter" Nicolo (steady on the right)
Grab the bozack, punk (steady on the right)
(Steady on, steady on the right)
(Steady on the right)
(Steady on the right) @bigbonzo
Jump Around - 30 Years Remaster 😱 by House Of Pain
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Technotronic - "Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)" 1990 Eurodance / Hip-House / Eurohouse / New Beat
When Belgian project Technotronic first stormed onto the global dance scene in 1989 with their all-time classic debut single, "Pump Up the Jam," it legitimately became the single-biggest song in the entire world. And the sudden star of the group happened to be a beautiful Congolese model named Felly, who naturally shined in the music video, performed the song on TV multiple times, and was exclusively featured in the art for both the single and its corresponding album too.
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But as the world would soon find out, all of this actually turned out to be an enormous ruse. Felly was *not* the singer-rapper of Technotronic that everyone was tricked into believing she was. She actually had nothing to do with the making of the group's music at all and apparently didn't even speak English either! And whenever she performed "Pump Up the Jam," all she did was just lip-sync the words! 😲
So, who was Technotronic's lead vocalist then? Another Congolese-born person: a mere teenager named Ya Kid K, who seemed to possess this uncanny ability to both rap and sing effortlessly in this assertively cool, deep, distinct, velvety-smooth, and magnetically thick New York-sounding accent. She wasn't the most technically skilled rapper out there by any means, but as someone who served as a sort of cross between fitness tape instructor and narrator of catchy contemporary tracks that had been inspired by 1960s dance craze tunes, Ya Kid K was unparalleled. No one else in the world seemed to have a voice that was quite like hers and her mic presence was spectacular.
So then why did they initially try to hide her? Well, Ya Kid K didn't want to sign a contract with ARS Records, the label that was intent on releasing "Pump Up the Jam" and shooting a video for it, and she was already signed to Technotronic leader and producer Jo Bogaert's own record company anyway. In fact, the initial pressing of "Pump Up the Jam," before it ever even broke big, was released on his Sound 89 label, and Ya Kid K was actually credited. But Bogaert wanted to make the record much bigger, and ARS was apparently capable of helping him do that.
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But when Ya Kid K refused to sign that contract, what she didn't seem to be aware of is that ARS was then going to recruit someone else to pump up the jam. And when she found out that her own record was in the shops, with some other woman featured on the cover, she was not happy about it, to say the least.
Now, you also have to keep in mind that Technotronic exploded right at the time when lip-syncing was seen as this totally scandalous act of purely unconscionable inauthenticity. It *ended* Milli Vanilli's career and Italo-dance project Black Box caught a whole lot of flak for it too. So when people finally managed to actually catch on to Technotronic's game, Ya Kid K rightfully and immediately became the face of the group, and then Felly was cast out to the sidelines. And in 1990, Ya Kid K would front Technotronic as the opening act on Madonna's own Blonde Ambition tour.
So, this super fun video here for the group's second single, "Get Up (Before the Night Is Over)," is the one that really marked Ya Kid K's official introduction to the world as the person who truthfully possessed Technotronic's captivatingly golden voice. And she comfortably rocked a wholly different look than Felly's too, by decking herself out in a rotating wardrobe of baggy hip hop clothes, while also covering her short, cornrowed hair with an alternating pair of backwards snapbacks. Felly's presence as the group's original frontwoman had clearly been a boon to Technotronic, and she also still appeared in this particular video by mouthing Ya Kid K's multitracked "before the night is over line" too, but this full package that finally matched Ya Kid K's voice to her own genuinely infectious tomboy swagger was simply unbeatable.
And rather than Technotronic flailing to stay relevant after they'd inevitably found themselves caught up in such an embarrassing fiasco, "Get Up (Before the Night Is Over)" ended up succeeding as an excellent follow-up to their previous era-defining smash, landing itself in the top ten across the entire globe, including #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the US Dance Play chart as well.
The group's magic would virtually run out by the dawn of the mid-90s, but at least Ya Kid K got a couple years to really bask in a moment that she had been so clearly deserving of all along. It was unfortunate that "Pump Up the Jam" had left her out of the spotlight, but we also don't know if that record would have succeeded as well as it did without Felly either. However, with such a momentous hit then under their belts, Technotronic no longer had to sell that faux image that had helped them become famous in the first place; the people had clearly fallen in love with their tunes, and they were now free to be themselves.
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“Like No One Is Watching” OUT NOW
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nctrnm · 4 months
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#NowPlaying: "Vapor People" by Bug Music
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Release: November 22, 2004
Lyrics:
'cause you woke up in the mornin'
With initiative to move, so why make it harder?
(Don't hold back) if you think about it, so many people do
Be cool man, look smarter
and you shouldn't even care
'Bout the losers in the air and their crooked stares
(Don't hold back) 'cause there's a party over here
So you might as well be here where the people care
(Don't hold back)
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
Galvanize
Come on, come on, come on
if you think about it too much
You may stumble, trip up, fall on your face
(Don't hold back) you think it's time you get up
Crunch time like a sit-up
C'mon keep pace
put apprehension on the back burner
Let it sit, don't even get it lit
(Don't hold back) get involved with the jam
Don't be a prick, hot chick be a pig
(Don't hold back)
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
World (you're holding back)
The time has come to
Galvanize
Come on, come on, come on
World, the time has come to (push the button)
World, the time has come to (push the button)
World, the time has come to (push the button)
World, my finger is on the button
My finger is on the button
My finger is on the button
(Push the button)
Songwriter:
The time has come to
Galvanize
Edmund John Simons / Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands / Kamaal Ibn John Fareed / Najate Aatabou
SongFacts:
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Homepage:
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[Electronica/Beats] MrScorpio's HOUSE FIRE Podcast #304 -Bring On August Edition - 04 Aug 2023 Mixcloud: http://bit.ly/Mixcloud304 D/L: http://bit.ly/DL-HF304 Shows: http://bit.ly/ScorpioPodcasts
Name/Artist/Album Draw The Line (Original Mix)/RSquared/Draw The Line Drink In Paris (Vintage Culture Remix) (feat. Lhana Marlet)/Gui Boratto/Drink In Paris Colombiana (Extended Mix)/Maximo Quinones/Eivissa-Esque 2 Makes Me Wonder (Radio Edit)/U-Ness/Makes Me Wonder Te Esfolei/nocapz./Te Esfolei Air/Long Island Sound/Don't Let Me / Air 3AM in the Möbius Strip Club (Youandewan Remix)/Remotif/In the Blink of a Cosmic Eye Freedom 2/Kwengface,Joy Orbison,Overmono/Freedom 2 This is Serious/Overland/King Tide John Wicks/Byron The Aquarius/John Wicks Synectica/Bogus/Before The Moon Come On Then/Nightmares On Wax/CLUB E.A.S.E. #1 Ventolin (Plain-An-Gwarry Mix)/Aphex Twin/Ventolin Novaform/Machinedrum/Holly/Novaform / Blueshift The Most Wanted Puffin (Lukey Dukey)/Kaidi Tatham/The Only Way Til Further Notice/Travis Scott/Utopia Blind/Chika/Samson So Cold feat. Harm/B-Legit/Throwblock Music II: 88' D Boi Strike Back/Verbz/ Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz/Sight Beyond Sight The Odds (feat. Tay Edwards)/Payton Sensei/Sunflowers The Foo Fops feat. DJ Ace the Cut Lieutenant/Legendary Baller/All Mack Everything Sundown/Moose Funk Squad/Hoof Prints, Vol.3 Time/Funky DL/I am Reuben Turn It Up/Dookie Bros/Manure Music Vol. 2 Late Checkout featuring Diandra Tejada/1773 & Joe Tyse/The Luvbug Vol. 2 Jazz Messenger/Goomson/Heavy Wreck Moonshooter (Feat. Joey Bada$$)/Ab-Soul/Herbert Blain Pitch/Fly Anakin/Skinemaxxx (Side B) What's the Word for Memory (feat. KARL FRIERSON) (Reduced Remix)/De-Phazz, Reduced (Remixes) Frisco/Little Dragon/Tumbling Dice
Send me your tracks at Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/mr_scorpio Check out all your tracks on my show THE HOUSE FIRE/ every other Friday @6-8 PM GMT on InvaderFM: http://invader.fm Stream the podcasts at my Mixcloud: bit.ly/MrScorpiosShows Friend me up on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mrscorpio247 Look me up on Tumblr: http://mrscorpio.tumblr.com Shoot me your videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrScorpio
Peace,
Scorp
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Tracklist:
Check Your Basic Groove • Synasthesia • Power Of Big Slacks • Zerotonine • Love Like Razorblade • Legion • Disco 2000 • Future In Computer Hell (Part 2) • Bon Voyage • Power Of Big Slacks (Reprise) • Gettin' Lost • Black Jack • Next Plateau
Submitter's Note: The second- and last- of the Junkie XL albums made before it transitioned to being Tom Holkenborg's solo project.
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Technotronic - "Pump Up the Jam" 1989 House / Hip-House / Eurodance / New Beat / Eurohouse
Here we go, folks; it's the big one. Belgian dance project Technotronic's legendary debut single, 1989's "Pump Up the Jam," is, whether you like it or not, one of the most important songs in the history of music. And that's because it was the *very first* house track to ever *massively* cross over onto the American pop charts, managing to peak at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, while also dominating many other charts across the globe as well. And in retrospect, as far as the music itself went, it wasn't really anything all that new; but for people who were completely unaware of the underground house tracks that had been pumping out of Chicago since the mid-80s, this song sounded like it could have been shot out of a cannon from Neptune, before incidentally puncturing our very own troposphere. Like, do you know what the #1 song in all of America was when this thing hit its eventual peak in January of 1990? Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You." So, imagine getting bludgeoned by that literal one-two punch on your contemporary hit radio station in the dead of winter thirty-three years ago. Nothing like that had *ever* happened before.
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Now, yesterday I got into Technotronic's biggest ever controversy, which was that the lycra-clad girl in the iconically curious and candy-colored music video, who was the same person that appeared exclusively in the group's album art, and who also even went on TV multiple times to perform the group's lone hit herself, was actually a lip-syncing model named Felly who didn't even speak any English. But I'm not going to be relitigating much of that in this post today.
What I am going to be doing, however, is digging into how this track itself came to be made, because there really is quite a long and interesting backstory to it, and it doesn't even begin with anyone who was actually in Technotronic.
See, the tale of how "Pump Up the Jam" first came to fruition actually starts in Chicago in 1988, with this house track here by the legendary Farley "Jackmaster" Funk called "The Acid Life." Trip on this tune and you'll immediately hear where Technotronic derived one of the most recognizable intros in the history of contemporary music from:
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The rippling rhythm of the acid bass pulsations? And the idea to set them between incessantly rattling, pressure-cooked hi-hats too? All of this was actually Farley's invention. Crazy, right?
Now, as far as I can tell, Farley was never officially credited on any of Technotronic's own records as a songwriter for "Pump Up the Jam," but according to a very informative Google-Translated Belgian article I was able to find, he still did end up receiving gains from it 🤘.
But this was really just a starting point for the song. After its first few bars, producer Jo Bogaert would end up taking his tune in a very different direction from that of Farley's. And the first sign was the little taste of string synth that he gave that would later go on to define a piece of Technotronic's own sound.
Now, Jo Bogaert had already become something of a successful musician in Belgium before he'd ever even met the other members of Technotronic. He was a pioneer of this genre that was pretty much only popular in Belgium called new beat, with a trio of hits between '87 and '88 that were released under the moniker of Nux Nemo: "Hiroshima," "Chinatown," and "Asian Fair."
But at a certain point, his productions would end up seeing diminishing returns from the record-buying public, and, as a result, his own label, Clip Records, had found itself struggling too. Bogaert had another idea though, and it was fueled by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Acid Life." He, like so many other European musicians, had a dream of actually breaking big in America. And he would end up using part of an American record to actually do it.
So, with his near-reproduction of the open from "The Acid Life" to kick off his own tune, he ended up cobbling together a similar pair of raw, absolute stompers and pressing them to a 12-inch. Both tracks sampled some dialogue from Eddie Murphy's Delirious set, and under the alias of Pro 24's, Bogaert would title this record...wait for it... "Technotronic."
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And these two tunes would end up serving as the blueprint for what would later become "Pump Up the Jam."
Now, "Technotronic" didn't do too badly in Belgium, but the CEO at one of the country's biggest labels, ARS Records, thought that it could maybe become a much bigger hit if Bogaert had agreed to make some changes to it. There was a fusion genre that set party rap lyrics to house beats that was gaining popularity in other countries called hip-house, and he thought Bogaert's song could be retooled into a smash if he followed that formula.
But creating a hip-house record would require the talents of a rapper, and Bogaert didn't seem to personally know any. However, he had heard from someone about this sixteen year-old biracial girl originally from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) named Ya Kid K, who was in a crew called Fresh Beat Productions, and who also had her heart set on recording an album. And as Ya Kid K likes to half-jokingly put it herself, she also happened to be the *only* female black MC in all of Belgium at that time too 😅.
So Bogaert sent out demos to some Belgian rappers and, fortunately, Ya Kid K ended up answering his call. She would take about fifteen minutes to write some inanely hooky lines over his track and then it would take another twenty minutes to record the whole thing itself. The first words out of her mouth ended up being "pump up the jam," so that's what they decided to call their song. They could've called it something like "Make My Day" instead, given how many times that that line was repeated, but M/A/R/R/S had a pretty big hit in "Pump Up the Volume" a couple years prior too, so Bogaert and Ya Kid K were probably trying to chase some of that tune's glory as well.
Bogaert would then release the record on his own Clip label under the name of Technotronik and take it to ARS. And upon hearing it, they were very impressed, but they also said that if they were to pick up the record, the vocalist would also have to be the star, and Ya Kid K didn't want to be in a music video or on an album cover. So, without her knowledge, they went and enlisted Felly to fill those roles instead.
ARS then released the record, and a bunch of labels in other countries picked it up too, and then, miraculously, this song was everywhere. Finally, there was this throbbingly weird and super catchy house tune with a very boisterous vocal that was awkwardly commanding us all to have a good time on the dancefloor; and it came equipped with rap lyrics that you could easily anthemically chant and a beat that you could seriously dance your ass off to as well, as Felly and some other kid would put on display for us in the music video themselves. Clearly, ARS was onto something with their vision for this earworm.
Now, were there better produced house tracks out there than this one in 1989 and 1990? Unquestionably. But because it happened to be unleashed upon a public that was largely unaware of house music altogether, this is the one that just so happened to really break down the barrier that was continually keeping house separate from pop.
And not long after "Pump Up the Jam" conquered, Madonna would drop "Vogue," a song that really managed to successfully mesh pop with house, and even featured a spoken-word rap on it too. It's not to say that Madonna was directly influenced by "Pump Up the Jam" to cut her own house track, but the extremely wide acceptance of Technotronic's debut single over the prior handful of months appeared to lay the groundwork for "Vogue" to then subsequently reign as the undisputed song of the summer for 1990. The door for dance music to finally make its return to the American mainstream for the first time since disco had died had finally been opened, and this unexpected triumph from Belgium seems to be the one that really kickstarted the whole trend. Jo Bogaert's dream of making a big American hit had come true, and Madonna, who loved working out to "Pump Up the Jam" herself, would take his group on her Blonde Ambition world tour as the opening act, with Ya Kid K as Technotronic's rightful frontwoman.
More fun videos here.
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