Pump Up the Jam: The Album

"Pump Up the Jam" is a song by Electronic group Technotronic featuring Felly Kilingi, it released on August 18, 1989 as their debut single & the lead single to their debut album of the same name, Pump Up the Jam: The Album. Pump Up the Jam has been described as a fusion of hip-hop, eurodance & new-beat elements, as an example of the techno genre, it was also a landmark release for house music. It was able to tackle the tough American market & is notably considered the first house & eurodance song to break into the US mainstream. Read more on Last.fm.

Technotronic is a studio-based house music project from Belgium, formed by Jo Bogaert (a.k.a. Thomas De Quincey) in 1988. Together with Ya Kid K (born Manuela Kamosi, 1973, Zaire), he produced the hit single Pump Up The Jam which was originally intended as an instrumental. An image for the act was put together utilizing Zairian-born fashion model Felly (allegedly without her permission) as its album and single cover art and singer in the music video. Ya Kid K went on to provide vocals on several other Technotronic tracks. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.