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	"New Beat" is a music term that was used twice during the 80s. It also refers to an underground 80s Belgian music style. The term "New Beat" The term New Beat was first used in the USA United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U... during the early '80s. At the time, this New Beat music was a contemporary genre to Techno Techno Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988.... from Detroit and House House music House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit.... from Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents.... , although not intrinsically linked. The Americans at the time used the term to describe those music styles that they never heard before. It was the new beat of the time, the new sound, very different from Hi-NRG Hi-NRG Hi-NRG is high-tempo disco music , as well as a more specific, derivative genre of electronic dance music that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s.... disco, New Wave New Wave music New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s.... , Synth Pop, Rap or whatever. The term was soon replaced by other terms, so virtually any USA hits once described as "New Beat" are today considered a part of another music style, most of the time simply House or Techno. The second time that the term New Beat used, was in Europe. First, appeared in Belgium, around 1987, to describe a local music style that mainly developed out of 'Bodybeat' heralded by the early formation of Front 242 Front 242 Front 242 is a pioneering Belgium electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. During their most active period they influenced many elektro-industrial and electronic artists.... . When MTV Europe MTV Europe MTV Europe launched on MTV's 6th birthday 1 August, 1987 under a co-operative agreement by Viacom and British Telecom until 1991 when Viacom took over full ownership.... began in the summer of 1987, it brought the term to the UK. In the UK, the term New Beat was used in 1987–1988 for various local Acid house Acid house Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance music-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics.... / Techno Rave Rave A rave is a term in use since the 1980s, to describe dance party with fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties disc jockeys and other performers play Electronica, Trance music, and Techno ,... productions, to point out that this was a new sound of dance music and a less commercial alternative to UK's Eurobeat Eurobeat Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco . In the USA, it was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits.... . Eurobeat was at the time used in the UK for the Stock Aitken Waterman Stock Aitken Waterman Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions.... productions. Eventually, the term became mainstream, especially between the summer of 1989 and the summer of 1990, but faded fast after Euro House took over. Because of the relation of the "New Beat" and Acid house in the UK during 1988, the later commercial "New Beat" European productions, sported the Smiley Smiley A smiley, or happy face , is a stylized representation of a smiling human face, commonly represented as a yellow circle with two dots representing eyes and a half circle representing the mouth.... as symbol of love in the British related markets. Various British "New Beat" productions, eventually migrated to the 'Bacalao' scene in Valencia Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably.... . Before the term New Beat began to fade (during 1990-1991), it was used one last time to describe many Belgium and German dance groups like Technotronic Technotronic Technotronic was a studio-based Belgian music project formed by Jo Bogaert in 1988, who had already made his musical mark in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various new beat projects, including The Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo. Together with Ya Kid K , he produced the hit single "Pump Up... , Snap Snap Snap or SNAP may refer to any of the following:Science/Technology/Engineering:* S-Nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, a biochemical reagent... , Confetti's, The adventures of Stevie V, McSar & the Real McCoy and Twenty4Seven on the minor European (and related) markets (Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Southern France). The term in this case used again like the way it used in USA almost a decade before to describe the overall "new" dance sound of the time and not so much a music style. It was generally used to fill the "gap" between 80s Euro disco Euro disco Euro Disco is a term that was first used during the 1970s to describe a variety of non UK-based European disco pop music. Euro-disco songs, like other related genres such as Euro-pop and Euro-dance are usually lightweight, slickly produced, catchy songs with bouncy dance beats, and English-language vocals over a verse-chorus form and later,... and the 90s Euro-House). USA fans of 90s Eurohouse (in the USA the term "90s Eurodance Eurodance Eurodance is a subgenre of electronic dance music originating in the early 1990s#Music. It combines many elements from House music, Hi-NRG, Italo-disco, and Hip-Hop music.... " is used), testify that the term New Beat was also used for a short while during the early 90s, to describe various early 90s imports on the USA market, like 2 Unlimited 2 Unlimited 2 Unlimited was a Eurodance act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgium producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Netherlands duo, Hip hop music Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth.... , Quadrophonia Quadrophonia Quadrophonia were a Netherlands dance act formed by Olivier Abbeloos and Lucien Foort in the late 1980s, with Rapping vocals on several of their tracks performed by Marvin D .... , T99 T99 T99 was a Belgium techno musical band best known for their rave anthem, "Anasthasia", which reached #14 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1991.T99 was initially Patrick de Meyer, who released three solo works under this pseudonym.... , etc. The New Beat Sound The New Beat sound, mostly originated in Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium.... and the productions date in the late 1980s and especially between the years 1987 and 1988. The British labeled it "Agreppo" for not confusing it with their local version of the term. "Agreppo" comes from "Aggressive Pop". This term also used in Europe around the same time, to describe the late 80s Electronic Body Music (EBM) Electronic body music Electronic body music is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music. It first came to prominence in Belgium.... music style. The Belgium New Beat, was an underground danceable music style, well known at Clubs and Discos around Europe. It is a local crossover of EBM, Acid & mid 80s underground House music. The 80s Dark Wave also became an aesthetic influence (especially the "Depeche Mode Depeche Mode Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke .... "'s videos from 1985-1989). At the time, EBM was popular in German speaking countries & The Netherlands, Acid / Acid Trance was popular on the UK and House Music (in a 80s Eurodisco French twist) was popular in France. Belgium, a small land in the Center of all those areas, influenced from all and created this unique music sound, with huge underground success all over Europe. Legend has it that the Belgian New Beat genre was invented in the nightclub Boccaccio Boccaccio (nightclub) Boccaccio was a nightclub in Destelbergen, near Ghent, Belgium.The club is known being the breeding ground for New Beat. It was a diamond shaped venue which was crowded at the time, with people from all over Europe wanting to hear this kind of new music.... in Destelbergen Destelbergen Destelbergen is a municipality located in the Belgium province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Destelbergen proper and Heusden, Belgium and was created on January 1, 1977 by the fusion of these two municipalities.... near Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe.... when DJ Marc Grouls played a 45rpm EBM record at 33rpm, with the pitch control Pitch control A variable speed pitch control is a control on an audio device such as a phonograph, tape recorder, or CD player that allows the operator to deviate from a standard speed .... set to +8. The track in question was Flesh by A Split-Second A Split-Second A Split-Second was an electronic music band from Belgium. The duo — Marc Ickx and Peter Bonne — were active from their debut in 1986 until they split up in 1991 and A Split-Second continued as an Ickx solo project.... . In addition to A Split Second, the genre was also heavily influenced by other EBM acts such as Front 242 Front 242 Front 242 is a pioneering Belgium electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. During their most active period they influenced many elektro-industrial and electronic artists.... and The Neon Judgement The Neon Judgement The Neon Judgement was a Belgium New Wave music band.The band was started in Leuven in 1981 by Dirk Da Davo and TB Frank.The band briefly stopped performing in 1998, but reformed in 2004 and started playing live again to promote a series of remixes and rereleases of their material.... , as well as the likes of Fad Gadget Fad Gadget Fad Gadget is the stage name of Francis John Tovey . An influential United Kingdom avant-garde music Electronic music musician, he was an exponent of both New Wave music and early industrial music.... , Gary Numan Gary Numan Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars ".... and Anne Clark Anne Clark Anne Clark is an English people poet and songwriter. Her first sound recording and reproduction was The Sitting Room in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.... . In 1989–1990, the genre spawned some short-lived sub-genres or successor genres Hard Beat and Schizzo - the latter being a techno-influenced style, considerably faster than the original slow new beat style. There were two popular New Beat groups, with some commercial success: "Confetti's" and The Lords of Acid. Those groups are among the very few New Beat ones, that produced Music Videos and during the late 80s, they had a heavy airplay on the original MTV Europe, through the show "Party Zone". MTV Europe's VJ Steve Blame Steve Blame Steve Blame was MTV News Editor and Presenter between 1987 and 1994. During his time at MTV he interviewed all major pop stars from Madonna to McCartney.... was a great fan of New Beat and through his position on MTV News, promoted the Belgium's New Beat sound through his reports. Many Europeans consider New Beat as a forerunner of European House (Euro-House). Others, consider that "New Beat" was the first true European dance music style, without any Euro disco (Italo Disco Italo disco Italo-Disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the disco music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of electronic dance music.... - Eurobeat) influences. New Beat incorporated more Techno and Acid house influences. Euro House had Euro disco influences and for sure is not a New Beat / "Euro Disco" crossover. So for them, "Euro Beat" was a music style, that faded in 1990, for unknown reasons. Artists Lords of Acid Lords of Acid Lords of Acid is a Belgium acid house band from the 1990s that started as a spinoff of Praga Khan with the controversial New Beat single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988.... Cold Sensation Confetti's Confetti's Confetti?s was a Belgium New Beat band from the 1980s. Producers were Serge Ramaekers and Dominique Sas, sometimes credited as The Maxx. On stage Confetti?s was fronted by singer Peter Renkens and female dancers Marleen, Tania, Hilde and Dani?lla... Amnesia Erotic Dissidents Fax Yourself Jade 4U Bizz Nizz Bizz Nizz Bizz Nizz was a Belgium dance music act formed in 1990 by Phil Wilde and Jean-Paul de Coster, who met in their hometown of Antwerp.Their dancefloor filling single 's, "We're Gonna Catch You!" and "Don't Miss The Party Line" were both substantional hit single across Europe, including in the United Kingdom where "Don't Miss The Partyline" rea... 101 Dirty Harry In-D In-D In-D was a Belgian New Beat project, composed of DJ's Marcos Salon and Marc Grouls. In-D recorded for Belgian uber-label, Antler-Subway in the late 1980's.... Jarvic 7 Major Problem Miss Nicky Trax Morton Sherman Bellucci Morton Sherman Bellucci Morton , Sherman and Belluci were among the founders of the New Beat musical movement in Belgium in 1987 in music. Combined, they released over 100 recordings under various names in less than a year during the peak of the movement.... Public Relations Rhythm Device Taste of Sugar Tragic Error, formerly known as Fatal Error Fatal error In computing, a fatal error is an error which causes a program to abort - and thus may return the user to the operating system. When this happens, data that the program was processing may be lost.... Awaken B-art Neon Record labels Antler-Subway Records Music Man Records R&S Records R&S Records R&S Records is an independent techno music, jungle , and ambient music record label. Based in Belgium, R&S Records maintains several subsidiaries including Apollo , Global Cuts and Diatomyc , Satori Records, Generations and others.... Video clips See also List of electronic music genres List of electronic music genres This is a list of electronic music genres, sub-genres and styles, though for the latter, not all possess their own article .Ambient musicAmbient house... Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music* is an online Macromedia Flash-driven guide to electronic music created by Kenneth John Taylor of British Columbia.... External links - From NME, issue no. unknown, 1991. Interviews and Information about New Beat. On the 1.15 sec, V.J. Marcel Vanthilt from MTV Europe talks about New Beat and take interviews in English. The rest clip is in Flamish. A New Beat portal site created by V/Vm Test Records V/Vm Test Records V/Vm Test records is a record label based in Stockport, England and was started by James Kirby and Andrew Macgregor in 1996 in music. It does not have an overseas division, so releases on it tend to be very collectible outside of the United Kingdom.... A parody of naive Belgian new-beat New Beat site in french. Many tracks and video clips More infos about New Beat, from an alternative point of view