Electronic Body Music/Belgian New Beat

[Orang Utan]

The industrial thread made me think this needs a thread of its own. It influenced so much - it led me and many others to techno and rave music, yet no-one seems to mention it much these days.
Here's a great contemporary radio show that played it:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

 

[Annierak]

^^
I can't stop playing that, great ecletic mix of tunes

 

[Orang Utan]

More examples
New Beat:
http://www.mashit.com/2007/09/27/new-beat-mixtape/
A Side: http://www.sleazetone.com/blog/newbeata.mp3
MaC Sample “ House Inspector (Subway)
Jade 4U “ That Boy (Acid Mix) (Subway)
Chinese Ways “ Secrets of China (Subway)
Doctor's Cat “ Crash (Il Disc 8 / Italy)
The Maxx “ Cocaine (Acid Mix) (BCM / Germany)
TNT Clan “ Blow Up the DJ (Subway)
Koto “ Japanese War Game (Club Mix) (Il Disc 8 / Italy)
Cyber People “ Void Vision (Slow Version) (MEM / Italy)
Beat Beat Beat “ Beat in the Street (Subway)
KAOS 007 Kick on Acid (Kaos)
Snowy Red “ The Long Run (Antler Subway)
A Split Second “ Rigor Mortis (Remix) (Antler Subway)
It’s Official “ Spies! (Subway Dance)
Major Problem “ Acid Queen (Kaos)
Boy Toy “ Touch My Body (Kaos)
Taste of Sugar “ Hmm Hmm Remix (Subway)
Erotic Dissidents “ Shake Your Hips (Subway)
Fruit of Life “ Are You Conservative? (Subway)
The Brothers “ Brotherhymn Remix (Subway)
Snowy Red Euroshima “ Wardance (Subway)
Arbeid Adelt“ Death Disco (white)

B Side: http://www.sleazetone.com/blog/newbeatb.mp3
A Split Second “ The Colosseum Crash Remix (Antler Subway)
Scotch “ Disco Band (Mach 2 Remix) (American Disco / Italy)
Kasso "The Walkman (Special Dutch House Remix) (Rams Horn / Netherlands)
The New Beat Sensation “ Robbin™ & Stealin™ (Inst.) (Subway)
New Beat Generation “ Suck the Beat (Inst.) (Subway)
Doctor's Cat “ Feel the Drive (Il Disc 8 / Italy)
The Weathermen “ Bang! (Play It Again Sam)
Brotherhood of Sleep “ New Beat (Inst.) (Subway)
Miss Nicky Trax “ Acid in the House (Kaos)
HNO3 “ Doughnut Dollies (R&S)
Taboo “ Into the Sun (Subway)
Major Problem “ I Still Have A Dream (Beat Box)
Lords of Acid “ I Sit on Acid (Kaos)
The Executive Board “ I Do Anything (XL)
The Airplane Crashers “ I Have A Dream (Subway)
The Hardsonic Bottoms 3 “ Do It Any Way You Wanna (6th Version) (Contempo / Italy)
Lords of Acid “ For Grown Ups (Complete Kaos)
Plastic Bertrand “ Plastiiic (Acid House Mix) (ARS)
Rhythm Device “ Acid Rock Remix (Inst.) (Music Man)
Zsa Zsa Laboum “ Tu Veux Ou Tu Veux Pas? (Complete Kaos)

 

[asbestos]

Some great tracks on that, ta for the links.

Used to love the early R&S stuff, and Psychic Warriors Ov Gaia were a huge influence (starting out as, cough.. industrial I believe).

 

[Orang Utan]

Some EBM (Ichi One mix):
http://www.zshare.net/audio/12270005e82ffb88/
01. Keith Leblanc : Mechanical movements - Enigma records
02. Gary Clail's Tackhead Soundsystem : Mind at the end of the tether - Nettwerk
03. Tasteless Cuts feat. Dj Spike : Baby bye - Blanc records
04. Mc 900 ft. Jesus with Dj Zero : UFO's are real - Nettwerk
05. Lassigue Bendthaus : Statique (Flows) - Kk records
06. Clock DVA : The unseen - Interfisch records
07. Dive : Final report - Discordia
08. Anatole Gerasimov & Helena Zvereva : Me and my rhythm box - Varèse Sarabande
09. Cabaret Voltaire : Expect nothing - Rough Trade
10. Chris & Cosey : The impulse - Rough Trade
11. Lassigue Bendthaus : Lanternslide - Parade Amoureuse
12. The Cassandra Complex : One millionth happy customer - Play It Again Sam
13. Cabaret Voltaire : Yashar (NYC dances mixes / Remix John Robie) - Factory Benelux

 

[asbestos]

Clock DVA - The Hacker



I remember the first time I ever saw this *lol*

 

[asbestos]

It's amyl nitrate music, innit.

claustraphobic

 

[Orang Utan]

Another old mix tape from c1988:
download AB side A
stream AB side A
he said / pump
vicious pink / the spaceship is over there
tagc / big sex
ministry / the angel
severed heads / the ant can see legs
eurythmics / monkey monkey
alan rankine / rumours of war
simple minds / league of nations
blancmange / the game above my head
westworld / sonic boom boy


download AB side B

stream AB side B
carlos peron / nothing is true
brian eno - david byrne / regiment
robert palmer / the silver gun
jah wobble / how much are they
fingerprintz / wet job
signal aout 42 / pleasure and crime
severed heads / now an explosive new movie
crash course in science / flying turns
the neon judgement / TV treated
???
peech boys / on a journey


Note with these mixes that not every track is EBM or New Beat - no-one made 'purist' mixes in those days

 

[Orang Utan]

So there's your music.
Now, discuss....

 

[Annierak]

Another old mix tape from c1988:
download AB side A
stream AB side A
he said / pump
vicious pink / the spaceship is over there
tagc / big sex
ministry / the angel
severed heads / the ant can see legs
eurythmics / monkey monkey
alan rankine / rumours of war
simple minds / league of nations
blancmange / the game above my head
westworld / sonic boom boy


download AB side B

stream AB side B
carlos peron / nothing is true
brian eno - david byrne / regiment
robert palmer / the silver gun
jah wobble / how much are they
fingerprintz / wet job
signal aout 42 / pleasure and crime
severed heads / now an explosive new movie
crash course in science / flying turns
the neon judgement / TV treated
???
peech boys / on a journey


Note with these mixes that not every track is EBM or New Beat - no-one made 'purist' mixes in those days

Thanks for that, i must buy some discs tomorrow and burn this stuff

Thanks LTC

 

[Fictionist]

I remember a tune from that period which simply featured a voice / vocal line which stated 'This is the sound of New Beat'. Does anyone know what this might have been?

 

[Annierak]

I remember a tune from that period which simply featured a voice / vocal line which stated 'This is the sound of New Beat'. Does anyone know what this might have been?

No idea, sorry

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Spandex]

So there's your music.
Now, discuss....

I like it.

errr....

apart from the tunes I don't like.

errr....

errr...

nice day isn't it?

 

[Dask]

EBM and Belgium New Beat are quite different, it's confusing to refer to them as one entitiy.

But yeah nice one for stating a thread as it's an often overlooked genre of electronic music.

 

[perplexis]

I love this shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

EBM and Belgium New Beat are quite different, it's confusing to refer to them as one entitiy.

But yeah nice one for stating a thread as it's an often overlooked genre of electronic music.

Yes, but people like both and they often end up in mixes together

 

[Spandex]

EBM and Belgium New Beat are quite different, it's confusing to refer to them as one entitiy.

They kind of come from the same place, the dancier side of 80s industrial (isn't New Beat often said to have started when some DJ played Flesh by A Split Second at the wrong speed?) but went in pretty different directions.

EBM in the late 80s/early 90s went a rockier route, while New Beat eventually turned into euro-dance; Technotronic, of Pump Up the Jam fame, were originally a New Beat act.

 

[sim667]

gonna download some of this over the weekend.

 

[Spandex]

It influenced so much - it led me and many others to techno and rave music, yet no-one seems to mention it much these days.

Actually, that applies to me as well. It was EBM that opened my mind to dancing to electronic music after being into punk/goth/indie and paved the way for me getting into techno/raves/free parties. But once I was into the dance scene in the early 90s I pretty quickly stopped listenning to all that gloomy, angsty stuff cos the music I'd just got into was so much more fun, exciting and interesting.

I guess that's part of the reason it gets forgotten about; in 91/92/93 much of it's audience dropped it like a brick once they discovered raves and never looked back.

Also it rarely gets a mention in the Official story of post 87 dance music, which would have you think it ALL started in Chicago, Detroit and New York, often overlooking the Belgian, Italian and Dutch influences.

 

[Blagsta]

Some great tracks on that, ta for the links.

Used to love the early R&S stuff, and Psychic Warriors Ov Gaia were a huge influence (starting out as, cough.. industrial I believe).

PWOG were Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves is still one of my fave techno albums.

 

[el_starkos]

How's about Front242 ? Quite liked them.

 

[Fictionist]

No idea, sorry

I think I might have found it - and I got the vocal line completely wrong!!

I think it is called 'The Sound of C' by Confetti. It has a terrible video but I still quite like it- very Electro Funk!

 

[Geri]

How's about Front242 ? Quite liked them.

I used to love Front 242 - saw them at the Astoria, it was wicked.

 

[pogofish]

Crikey, there is some stuff on the OP's list that I've not heard in a very long time.

 

[asbestos]

PWOG were Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves is still one of my fave techno albums.

I've been listening to their last album again lately 'Record of Breaks', the first track, A Kind of Prayer, is still doing it for me, that bass line...
They started out as the Katharos Foundation afaik, on an industrial/ebm tip. (KK Records being Belgian)

 

[Nixon]

I used to love Front 242 - saw them at the Astoria, it was wicked.

Ditto.Fucking raw

 

[Dr. Furface]

I used to love Front 242 - saw them at the Astoria, it was wicked.

And me! That was a great night. And I've still got the t-shirt with 'no sex until marriage' on it!

 

[killer b]

new beat was awesome... my knowledge of it is incredibly sketchy (mainly informed by a couple of compilations i've found over the years), but that miss nicky trax seems to be involved with the best stuff...

 

[pk]

Ace music, superb tunes.

Nice thread LTC.