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Technotronic biographyThe beat and the look that conquered virtually every hit-list throughout the world, and shook the international dance community to its foundations. Technotronic was the restless offspring of innovative Belgian producer Jo Bogaert. He expertly devised the now all too familiar sound of Technotronic in his humble attic studio about 20 miles north west of Brussels. In 1983-84, Jo was the keyboardplayer for the band WhiteLight (intimistic, sober Velvet-Underground-ish songs). After the demise of this, he turned into a solo-"do-it-yourselfer" in his attic in Aalst. At the time of the eruption of New Beat, he operated under a number of pseudonyms (Nux Nemo, Acts of Madmen ...). As the first devastating bars of Pump Up The Jam permeated through the air-waves and night-clubs, lesser mortals instantly realised ; here was something new, exciting and floating high above competitors. Technotronic had arrived, and pretty soon, they would have a domino effect on the worlds charts as their assault gathered momentum. The first public face of Technotronic was a blue lipped pouting temptress known as Felly, a renowned fashion-model. It wasn't until the second earth shattering single Get up that the public saw and heard Manuela Kamosi, or Ya Kid K, for the first time. She had already performed the original vocal on Pump Up The Jam and now finally the world could bear witness to her struttning amblent deliverance of Get Up. After the monumental success of Pump up the Jam the path was now clear and Get up achieved all expectation. Technotronic's debute had netted over 3,5 million in world sales, the follow up grossed another 1,9 million definite proof that Technotronic were not 'one of wonders'. Their sound was and still is a force to be reckoned with. The stage was not firmly set for their first album release Pump up the Jam. Pretty soon the album had notched up over 4 million world sales. By the end of 1990 Pump Up The Jam had reached pole position in the Billboard 12 singles dance chart. The follow-up singles Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) and This Beat Is Technotronic (feat. MC Eric) were also very succesful. Turn It Up featured Melissa Beckford and Einstein (who would later appear on Eurogroove's album) The last significant chart success was in 1992 when Move That Body (featuring Reggie) peaked at No.5 in the U.S. Billboard charts.Up until now Technotronic have retailed more than 13 million albums. They released another title featuring Reggie : Money Makes The World Go Round 1994 : Technotronic was back in a new style. Producers Jo Bogaert (Thomas De Quincey) and Patrick De Meyer teamed up with Phil Wilde and Peter Bauwens. These two producers were world famous for their huge success with CB Milton and 2 Unlimited (sold more than 10 million copies world-wide). The result of this combination was Move It To The Rhythm (featuring Ya Kid K, Daisy Dee and Black Diamond ) followed by Recall and a new album with the same name. 1997 : Technotronic has released a new single called Get Up'97, followed by many other re-releases. 1998 : DONS released Pump Up The Jam under the name of DONS feat.Technotronic. The radio edit (track N1) on this single was made by The Loop! (no other than Scooter). 2000 : Technotronic were back with some new material : after Like This featuring Monday Midnite, they released The G-train with the same artist. Then followed The Mariachi in June, with an appearance of Ya Kid K. 2001 : Technotronic released a new single in May called Runaway Blues. 2002 : Technotronic recorded a single entitled The Circle Unbroken. 2005 : DONS released a re-remix of their version of Pump Up The Jam. It entered many charts across Europe. 2007 : Global Deejays feat. Technotronic "Get Up" peaked #4 on the danish dancechart. 2009 : Technotronic are working on a new album. It would be featuring Ya Kid K. and Eric "MC Eric" Martin. This year, they had started a successful World Tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Technotronic, performing full-length concerts featuring some new remixes of the well-known hit singles and introduce some new tunes © Remixed records
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Latest Technotronic news03/06/2012 : Technotronic with Paul Almeida released a new version of their 1999 single Like This, from the new Technotronic best of album. (Thanks to Dance Music News) 30/09/2010 : Technotronic's hit Pump Up The Jam was remixed by Dimitri Vegas. The result was entitled Pump Up The Jam 2010 (Thanks to Tavi Meran) 04/07/2010 : Technotronic released a set of 3 new remixes of their hit Pump Up The Jam. One of them was done by Peter Luts (Lasgo) (Thanks to Tavi Meran) 14/03/2010 : Mphasis did a remix of Bingo Players's Disco Electrique, combining it with Technotronic raps and a true eurodance song. His remix of Ice MC My Word is really worth listening too. 06/09/2009 : Rumours state that Technotronic could be working on a new album, to be released on September 9th of this year on Universal Records. It would be featuring Ya Kid K. and Eric "MC Eric" Martin. This year, they had started a successful World Tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Technotronic, performing full-length concerts featuring some new remixes of the well-known hit singles and introduce some new tunes. All tourdates are on their Myspace. (Charly "Forti" Romanowski and eurodance blog) 27/03/2005 : Dons Feat Technotronic released a new version of their mega hit Pump Up The Jam 2005 under Kontor Records on the 4th March 2005. On 18th April the single will be released on CD maxi (thanks to Thomas B). 08/09/2003 : Technotronic is going to release a new single, a remake of their biggest hit : Re-Pump Up The Jam 2003. Links to TechnotronicOfficial websites
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DISCLAIMER : unless you see the artist's name among the credits of this biography, it was only created by gathering infos from the web and from fan sources. Sorry if, even if I did all verifications I could, some parts of the biography are false or lack accuracy. If you are the artist himself or contributed to the project, please wait till I come back from holidays.
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