Have you ever, like me, wondered why classic euro has been erased from pop history? As far as Dave Pearce is concerned, there were no dance records released between The Prodigy's "Out Of Space" and JX's "Son Of A Gun". Why have I not seen or heard Maxx's "Get-A-Way" anywhere since it was released? Boris Köhler from Germany teamed up with O-Jay of (MC Sar &) The Real McCoy "fame" to produce one of the very best records of the eurodance era.
With a Snow-Informer-style ragamuffin rap from Boris (using the stage name Gary B) and a powerful vocal from Alice Montana (but was replaced with O-Jay's more glamourous girlfriend in the video), the track zoomed to #4 in May 1994. It's about time some awful AATW scouse-house band raped it methinks. Frisco, are you listening?
Subsequent releases were performed by a THIRD girl called Linda Meek who you can see on the TOTP video above. They had two more top 40 hits - the very similar-sounding "No More (I Can't Stand It)" (#8, August 1994)... don't know why they decided to perform that in a boxing ring.... and the almost hardcore "You Can Get It" (#21, October 1994) but after one album they were never heard from again. :(
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