niceswan shooms
been listening to a lot of new beat/ebm lately, im currently in the middle of a mix of this stuff, mp3, not vinyl unfortunatly!
theres some cracking tunes from this genre!
New Beat rocks especially the harder acid end of the spectrum. Ive got a friend who has always worshiped the genre and only now am I realy getting it as like most people I dismissed Belgium and Dutch releases (apart from a few obvious tracks) as a bit out there with too much crap to be bothered in sorting out the good from the bad.
thx for the link man - I always loved the Belgian sound - a lot of the stuff I was into originally on XL -The Second Chapter turned out to be New Beat influenced or actual ex members of New Beat bands .
I made a mix a while back (in Ableton Live - not with decks :s) - if New Beat and the type of hardcore I think it influenced which can be downloaded here:
there actually are some 'new' songs in the group done in a New Beat style.
Anywayz, thanks for the link - I think New Beat's influence on european hardcore is constantly not appreciated enough.