What isnew beat?
On the disco line between eurobeat and hard nrg. A branch of hi-nrg. Grew out of electronic body music (industrial line), acid house (house line) and new wave.
EMERGED 1987
NEW BEAT
New beat was a Belgian club sound of the late 1980s made from EBM, industrial and early acid records played slowed down.[1] DJs ran 45 rpm singles at about 33 with the pitch pushed up, which gave a heavy, dark and often dubby groove.[1] Clubs such as Boccaccio near Ghent and the Ancienne Belgique in Antwerp drove it, and A Split Second's "Flesh" is the record usually named first.[1][2] Commercial success flooded the market, and by about 1990 many clubs had switched to house.[1]
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SOURCES
- 1. daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/01/new-beat-feature (blurb)
- 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_beat (year)