(Before the Night Is Over)" is a song by Belgian musical group Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K. It was released in January 1990 by labels BCM, Swanyard and SBK Records as the second single from the band's debut album, Pump Up the Jam: The Album (1989), on which it features as the second track.

[2] In 2007, the song was covered by Global Deejays (featuring Technotronic) who achieved a minor success in France.

[4] In addition, it reached number two in Austria, France, West Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

[6] Greg Kot from Chicago Tribune complimented rapper Ya Kid K's phrasing as "exotically enthusiastic and seductive", noting that catch phrases such as "Get up, get busy" "have become as ubiquitous as black leather miniskirts at dance clubs from Los Angeles to Berlin.

[8] Everett True from Melody Maker said, "This goes "git down/Mmm, get up-per" so many times you begin to wonder if the participants are involved in a particularly strenuous brand of press-up's.

"[10] John Leland from Newsday wrote that it "brings to the mainstream both cult sounds and cult ideology: It is more than anything a remix of the smash hit "Pump Up the Jam", with a new rap by the enticingly vulgar-sounding Zairean rapper Ya Kid K. This is Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" for the '90s: sinister, avant-garde, irresistible: a private fetish made public.

[12] James Hamilton of Record Mirror deemed the song "another powerfully-produced jam-pumping Euro-bounder, faultless of its type".

"[17] A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by Liam Kan.[18] It features model Felly lipsynching the chorus with blue lipstick and De Quincey playing the keyboards in the background.