List | T | Technotronic | 'Pump Up The Jam' CD 1989

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Pump Up The Jam	5:24
2.	Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over)	5:39
3.	Tough	4:29
4.	Take It Slow	5:08
5.	Come On	3:14
6.	This Beat Is Technotronic	5:30
7.	Move This	5:22
8.	Come Back	4:56
9.	Rockin' Over The Beat	5:49
10.	Raw	4:50
11.	Wave	4:19
12.	Bluestring	2:55
	Total	57:39

Comments:

The first mainstream techno/dance act I can remember hearing, fusing an underground techno sound with contemporary commercial disco, and scoring a handful of hits. The "band" was actually just a Belgian producer, fronted by a few dancers/rappers/singers and people lip-syncing to other (less photogenic) people's voices. The music was, while commercial, quite dark, stomping and clearly with one foot on the underground techno scene. The lyrics were quite simple; songs about dancing, moving your feet, and turning up the beat. Pretty much the same crap as most songs in the genre.

Followers, like 2 Unlimited, commercialised the sound further and, naturally, had greater success, and for each flavour-of-the-day incarnation of this sound it changed to a more and more simplified mainstream commercial watered-down version, ending up with present-day vomit-inducing ultrasweet shiny pink plastic popsters Aqua. Where things will go from there I dare not even imagine.

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