The Belgian hip hop scene started in the late 1980s with a U. S .- based techno / hip hop group called Technotronic.

Vocalist Magloire later enjoyed some success with the Belgian techno-house outfit Technotronic.

She later joined the studio-based Belgian project Technotronic and appeared on its 1991 album Body to Body.

Inspired by contemporary dance music like Italo house and acts such as Technotronic ( Sumner even did a remix of Technotronic's " Rockin ' Over the Beat " in 1990 ), their initial concept was to release white label records on Factory and remain an anonymous entity, in contrast to their considerable reputations with The Smiths and New Order.

House music was very popular in 1990 with artists like Technotronic powering the charts with songs like Get Up!

The brand was featured prominently in hip hop and dance music videos by artists such as Public Enemy, Technotronic and Beats International.

After having released a few limited edition 12 " singles in Germany under various project names ( e. g. The Alliance, The Admirers on his own label " Freshline Records " ( founded 1988 by Frank " Quickmix " Hassas & O-Jay ), their first major breakthrough came in December 1989 when a cover of the Technotronic hit " Pump Up The Jam " went to # 16 on the German singles chart.

The first single from the project, " Shake That Body ," featured emcee Ya Kid K, formerly of Technotronic.

Artists and songs covered included " Into The Groove " by Madonna, " Message in a Bottle " by The Police, " Gloria " by Laura Branigan, " Hip Hop Hooray " by Naughty by Nature, " Friday I'm in Love " by The Cure, " Livin ' on a Prayer " by Bon Jovi, " Physical " by Olivia Newton-John, " Heaven Is A Place On Earth " by Belinda Carlisle, " Everybody Have Fun Tonight " by Wang Chung, " All Fired Up " by Pat Benatar, " Workin ' Overtime " by Diana Ross, " The Promise of a New Day " by Paula Abdul, " Pump up the Jam " by Technotronic, " Motownphilly " by Boyz II Men, " I Have Nothing " by Whitney Houston and " Breakaway " by Tracey Ullman in addition to hundreds of other songs over the entire run.

While rap had been made in Europe at least as far back as Falco's Einzelhaft album ( 1982 ), the American variety only gained a more widespread acceptance when Technotronic landed their hit " Pump Up the Jam ", followed by Snap's " The Power ".

WBZZ ended the Top 40 format at 8: 30 AM with " Move This " by Technotronic, while K-Rock's first song was " For Those About To Rock " by AC / DC.

The track that became " Pump Up The Jam " began life as " Technotronic " ( which in turn became the project's official name ), an original instrumental that Bogaert released under the name The Pro 24s.

The group Technotronic had a massive international hit with Pump Up The Jam.

The label had several hits with Vanilla Ice, Jesus Jones, Boy George, Wilson Phillips, Ya Kid K, McQueen Street, Technotronic, Blur, and Billy Dean.

( Before The Night Is Over )", a # 7 hit in the US and a # 2 hit in the UK ; " This Beat Is Technotronic " ( US Dance # 3, UK # 14 ); and " Rockin ´ Over The Beat " ( UK # 9 ), also reached the Top 10 in many countries, and the album eventually climbed into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 in the US and reached # 2 in the UK Albums Chart.

Following on the success of contemporaries Black Box and Technotronic, Gonna Make You Sweat was a worldwide smash, reaching number two on the Billboard 200.

Technotronic has sold approximately 14 million albums and singles worldwide.

Leki started at the early age of twelve laying down vocals for Technotronic.

de Meyer later went on write material for Technotronic and 2 Unlimited.

The Rebel MC created a second wave house craze in October 1989 with his No. 2 hit " Street Tuff ", and from Belgium, genre-defining Technotronic stormed to No. 2 in November with their huge debut hit " Pump Up The Jam.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".

Japp is outgoing, loud and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot ’ s world.

* 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

Ans is a Belgian municipality in the province of Liège.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

Metro ( Belgian newspaper ) ( Concentra ) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.

The country code for Belgian websites is. be.

Belgian Blue is a breed of beef cattle from Belgium.

The Belgian Blue's sculpted, heavily muscled appearance is known as " double-muscling ".

The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

* The Belgian ( horse ) is also known as a Brabant or Brabançon

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

It is situated at the watershed of the Congo and Zambesi rivers, part of the district lay in Northern Rhodesia and part in the Belgian Congo State.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.