The Belgian sound had come a long way from its mistake ridden beginnings to the top of the American and UK Charts. Its influences on electronic music were far and wide.

Many people have been touched by the sound of New Beat and cite New Beat as being influential in their work. From Carl Craig to the Prodigy, Orbital to the Chemical Brothers, even Autechre, all have been influenced by New Beat. The KLF brought it overground and into the charts with their New Beat influenced trance classics. You can even trace New Beat stylings in many genres of today's electronic music.

Yet to this day this style is still not given any real praise from the dance community and has been ignored and virtually forgotten. No creative value has been placed on this music. Whereas you see classic acid nights and techno nights you seldom see any New Beat nights.

New Beat was the sound of Belgium between 1987 and 1990 and was at the cutting edge of creativity in electronic music at that time alongside the much lauded scenes in Detroit and Chicago. It holds a special place in in the minds of those who were touched by the sound.

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