Chart entered : 5 October 1991
Chart peak : 2
Number of hits : 14
Here come the Boney M for the rave generation
2 Unlimited were the brainchild of two Belgian producers Jean-Paul de Coster and Philip Wilde. Jean-Paul had been part of the dance act Bizz Nizz who released a trio of singles in 1989-90 including the UK number 7 hit "Don't Miss The Party Line" in 1990. It's a mixture of repetitive chants, faux-crowd noise and minimalist synth lines, not very interesting to my ears but obviously effective on the dance floor.
Philip was involved with Bizz Nizz as a re-mixer of their singles so I'm not entirely sure why they decided to run with a new name on their next record. "Get Ready For This" started out as a near- instrumental track which sounded like a sped-up Harold Faltermeyer track with the only vocal a sample from The D.O.C.s single It's Funky Enough saying "Y'all ready for this ?" It was working quite well in clubs so the duo asked Dutch rapper Ray Slijngard to come up with a vocal part for the track. Ray did so but went beyond his brief by adding a female part from his friend Anita Doth then working as a traffic warden. Luckily they liked it and invited both to join the group to be known as 2 Unlimited.
The band signed with PWL International to release it in the UK but Pete Waterman didn't like the rap version and released an edit of the original "Orchestral Mix " instead so Ray and Anita appeared in the video performing to a track that didn't feature either of them. The stabbing keyboard riff , played almost as a percussion instrument is aggravating but it was enough to get them almost to the top of the chart and bring "techno" into the mainstream.
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