Following the blue-lipped lipsynching of Pump Up The Jam ‘featuring Felly’, the Felly-deposing near-rewrite Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over) ‘featuring Ya Kid K’, and the lyrically preposterous near-rewrite-of-a-near-rewrite This Beat Is Technotronic ‘featuring MC Eric’ (who, lest we forget “saw your posse”, but now it’s him who’s “bossy”), Technotronic’s fourth turn-of-the-decade hit in the space of about three minutes saw Ya Kid K back in the vocal spotlight for the faberiffic Rockin’ Over The Beat. “The three singles were all basically the same song, but… I like the song” quoth Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones, and to be fair this one wasn’t all that different either, but we too like the song and this particular iteration of it above all others, so here it is, as a sort of Global Hypercolour heat-reactive t-shirt two fingered salute to anyone currently moaning about how ‘all that rave rubbish’ wasn’t ‘proper music’ like Dire Straits and Randy Newman. And while we’re here, doesn’t Ya Kid K look uncannily like Kima from The Wire?
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Lest we forget that they made four records which were essentially the same, so the fifth single was … all of the songs rolled into one, the Megamix. And it was ace.
Wasn’t Ya Kid K only about 13 or something? She was a decent rappette for what was needed in 1990, and I liked her collabortion with Hi-Tek 3 for Spin That Wheel. Something to do with turtles, I believe…
Haw, the original draft of this concluded “Just please nobody mention Spin That Wheel (Turtles Get Real)”…
She was indeed frighteningly young, wasn’t she? See also Leila K (of ‘Rob’n'Raz Featuring’ fame).
“When I grab the microphone you’d better move your butt.” Yes. An infectious record, but dies on a dancefloor even when surrounded by fillers by Black Box, S Express and Inner City. Hey ho.
“Whither the 49′ers?” I was watching the video for Touch Me on YouTube the other day, FWIW. Ironically, it contains the sort of spinny video effects that people put in their home-made YouTube videos now.
I love Spotify, but hardly any of this stuff is on there, which is hugely annoying.