Taking its influence from Electronic Body Music, Detroit Techno and Acid House. New Beat musicians threw all styles into the melting pot and were never afraid to experiment.

Antler Records were the first record label to take this new style seriously. Founded in the early 1980's Antler was best known for releasing industrial music. In 1987 it merged with Subway Records to form Antler Subway becoming one of the biggest supporters of New Beat Music.

Other labels were quick to follow including R&S, Target and Music Man. It was Subway though who became the biggest advocates of the genre releasing the now legenadary "Take" series of releases which gathered the best tracks from the scene on its compilations.

This music was not however destined to remain as just an underground trend. Soon hits emerged and New Beat began to take over the Belgian pop charts.

The UK music press at the time picked up on the genre and the NME devoted a front page feature to this new Belgian sound and Music Express also ran a feature.

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