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Thumping Eurotechno anthem urging all and sundry to ‘get your booty on the floor tonight, make my day’ – not too difficult to achieve in the face of scary new-fangled non-stop drum machine and subsonic bass chicanery – and more or less single-handedly responsible for ushering in a short-lived new era in which everything went a bit energy drink and Global Hypercolour. Originally lip-synched on TV by blue-lipsticked model ‘Felly’, before it emerged that her unconvincing miming concealed the fact that it had actually been performed by twangy-voiced rapper Ya Kid K, who in cahoots with her real-life beau MC Eric (whom, lest we forget ‘got lyric for ya’, and who had ‘seen’ your ‘posse’, but now it was him who was ‘bossy’) became the public face of Technotronic from theron in for a string of singles of ascending aceness – Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over), This Beat Is Technotronic and, best of all, the peerless Rockin’ Over The Beat. Or, if you’re one of those mentals who hasn’t stopped whining in the intervening twenty years, the dawn of ‘faceless Italian dance’ and therefore ruining things forever.
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