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New Beat

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New Beat is a style of Belgian underground music and subculture that fused techno and acid genres and flourished in Western Europe during the late-1980s. [1]

73 relations: A Split-Second, Acid, Acid house, Ancienne Belgique, Anne Clark (poet), Antwerp, Belgium, Big beat, Bizz Nizz, Boccaccio (nightclub), Brussels, Brussels Sound Revolution, Canvas (Belgium), Confetti's, Dark wave, Detroit techno, Disc jockey, Drum machine, Electroclash, Electronic body music, Electronic dance music, Electronic drum, Eurodance, Fad Gadget, Front 242, Gary Numan, Gesaffelstein, Hardcore (electronic dance music genre), Hardstyle, Hi-NRG, House music, Industrial dance music, Industrial music, Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, Italo dance, Italo disco, Keyboard instrument, L.A. Style, List of electronic music genres, Lords of Acid, Morton Sherman Bellucci, Music of Belgium, Music sequencer, New Order (band), New wave music, NME, Novelty song, Patrick Haemers, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Phonograph record, ..., PIAS Recordings, Pitch control, Popcorn (music style), Post-punk, Praga Khan, Psy'Aviah, Qui...?, R&S Records, Rave music, Revolutions per minute, Rezz, Richard Norris (musician), Signal Aout 42, Steve Blame, Studio Brussel, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, T99, Techno, Technotronic, The Grid, The Neon Judgement, The Sound of Belgium. Expand index (23 more) »

A Split-Second

A Split-Second is a Belgian electronic body music band.

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Acid

An acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).

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Acid house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

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Ancienne Belgique

Ancienne Belgique (French for "Old Belgium") is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium.

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Anne Clark (poet)

Anne Charlotte Clark (born 14 May 1960, Croydon, London, England) is an English poet songwriter and electronic musician.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Big beat

Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno.

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Bizz Nizz

Bizz Nizz was a Belgian dance act formed in 1989 by Jean-Paul de Coster of Antwerp.

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Boccaccio (nightclub)

Boccaccio was a nightclub in Destelbergen, near Ghent, Belgium.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Brussels Sound Revolution

Brussels Sound Revolution was a Belgian new beat band who had a novelty song hit in their home country with the 45 tours single Qui...? (1989), which featured samples of the speech Belgian former Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants gave after he had been kidnapped by the gang of Patrick Haemers that year.

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Canvas (Belgium)

Canvas is a Belgian television channel, which forms part of the Flemish public broadcasting organisation Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT).

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Confetti's

Confetti’s was a Belgian new beat band from the 1980s.

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Dark wave

Dark wave is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s.

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Detroit techno

Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Electronic body music

Electronic body music (EBM) is a genre of electronic musicDan Sicko, Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk, Billboard Books, 1999, p. 142.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic drum

An electronic drum, also known as electric drums, digital drums, or electronic percussion, is a modern electronic musical instrument, a special type of synthesizer or sampler, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit or other percussion instruments.

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Eurodance

Eurodance (sometimes known as Euro-NRG or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.

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Fad Gadget

Francis John Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist.

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Front 242

Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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Gesaffelstein

Mike Lévy (born 13 June 1987), known professionally as Gesaffelstein, is a French techno artist and DJ.

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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Hardcore/Gabber is one of the many sides of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands from the emergent raves in the 1990s.

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Hardstyle

Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre mixing influences from techno and hardcore.

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Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Industrial dance music

Industrial dance music is a North American alternative term for electronic body music and electro-industrial music.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an online guide to electronic music created by Kenneth John Taylor, aka Ishkur.

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Italo dance

Italo dance, also known as nu Italo disco, nu-Italo or just Italo, is an offshoot of the Eurodance music genre, which was especially popular in Europe in the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

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Italo disco

Italo disco (sometimes hyphenated, such as Italo-disco, subjected to varying capitalization, or abbreviated as Italo) is a music genre which originated in Italy and was mainly produced from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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L.A. Style

L.A. Style was a Dutch and UK electronic dance music group, consisting of founder and producer and radio DJ Wessel van Diepen (who later also created Nakatomi and the successful Vengaboys) and composer Denzil Slemming (a.k.a. Michiel Van Der Kuy of Laserdance) and FX aka Frans Merkx, as well as Foco (Alfons "Fonny" de Wulf) and Ray Decadance (surname Muylle) of the Belgian project ROFO (credited as writers and producers of "Balloony").

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List of electronic music genres

This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.

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Lords of Acid

Lords of Acid is a Belgian and American techno band, led by musician Praga Khan.

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Morton Sherman Bellucci

Morton (Jo Casters), Sherman (Herman Gillis) and Belluci (Roland Beelen) were among the founders of the New Beat musical trend that started in Belgium and expanded to elsewhere in Western Europe in and around 1987.

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Music of Belgium

The music of Belgium is a cultural crossroad where Flemish Dutch-speaking and Walloon French-speaking traditions mix with those of German minorities and of immigrant communities from Democratic Republic of the Congo and other distant countries.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Patrick Haemers

Patrick Haemers (2 November 1952, Schaerbeek – 14 May 1993) was a Belgian criminal who was head of a gang which carried out robberies of security vans and kidnapped former Belgian prime minister Paul Vanden Boeynants.

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Paul Vanden Boeynants

Paul Emile François Henri Vanden Boeynants (22 May 1919 – 9 January 2001) was a Belgian politician.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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PIAS Recordings

PIAS Recordings was founded in 1983 in Belgium as Play It Again Sam by Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot.

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Pitch control

A variable speed pitch control (or vari-speed) is a control on an audio device such as a turntable, tape recorder, or CD player that allows the operator to deviate from a standard speed (such as 33⅓, 45 or even 78 rpm on a turntable).

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Popcorn (music style)

Popcorn (sometimes Belgian popcorn or oldies popcorn) is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Praga Khan

Maurice Joseph Francois Engelen (born 7 January 1959), known by his stage name Praga Khan, is a Belgian electronic musician.

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Psy'Aviah

Psy'Aviah is an Industrial rock / Electroclash / Dark EBM band from Antwerp, Belgium.

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Qui...?

Qui…? (Translation: “Who…?”) is a 1989 Belgian novelty song hit by the New Beat band Brussels Sound Revolution.

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R&S Records

R&S Records is an independent record label founded in 1984 in Ghent, Belgium, R&S represents the initials of Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, the couple that created the label.

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Rave music

Rave music may either refer to the late 1980s/early 1990s genres of breakbeat, acid, techno and hardcore techno, which were the first genres of music to be played at rave parties, or to any other genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that may be played at a rave.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min) is the number of turns in one minute.

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Rezz

Isabelle Rezazadeh, (born March 28, 1995; Ukraine) known by her stage name Rezz (stylized as REZZ), is a Canadian DJ and record producer from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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Richard Norris (musician)

Richard Norris (born 23 June 1965) is a London-based record producer, sound engineer and musician, best known as a member of The Grid.

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Signal Aout 42

Signal Aout 42, also known as SA42, is a Belgian band.

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Steve Blame

Steve Blame (born 2 January 1959 in Chelmsford, England) is a British television presenter and screenwriter.

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Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel (Studio Brussels) (often shortened StuBru) is a Dutch-speaking radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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T99

T99 was a Belgian electronic music group, best known for their song, "Anasthasia", which reached #14 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1991.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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Technotronic

Technotronic was a Belgian electronic music project formed in 1988 by Jo Bogaert, who originally gained notoriety in the early 1990s as part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various New Beat projects, including the Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo.

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The Grid

The Grid are an English electronic dance group, consisting of David Ball (formerly of Soft Cell) and Richard Norris, with guest contributions from other musicians.

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The Neon Judgement

The Neon Judgement is a Belgian new wave band, formed in Leuven in 1981 by Dirk Da Davo (keyboards/vocalist) and TB Frank (guitarist/vocalist).

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The Sound of Belgium

The Sound of Belgium is a 2012 Belgian documentary film directed by Jozef Devillé and produced by independent Belgian production company Visualantics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Beat

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