old beat
mr dougie boom recently posted that sick new zongamin video on my facebook with the caption "everything is coming up new beat".
new beat was something that absolutely wasn't on my radar until about a year ago, when i came across this compilation lp in one of my local haunts:
obviously i picked it up and took a look at the tracklist cuz it looked weird and interesting, and well ... that chick is blue. i found a bunch of names i didn't know and ... max berlin's "she and me" (yes, listed in english)?? i had a listen and found it was vaguely industrial, vaguely new wave, vaguely acid house, and definitely slow. anyway, once i got it home i started doing the requisite internet research on the genre known as new beat (as i am one of those obsessives that NEEDS to know where everything came from and why and how it happened) and came across a history documented over at jahsonic and wikipedia. i'm leaving it up to you to read those, but in light of the recent cosmic phenomenon, i found it interesting that one of new beat's major signifiers is that one of the era's djs played a 45rpm 12 inch at 33rpm +8 - and BAM! there was new beat.
anyway, here is the track that i liked the best off of that compilation.
we are all egyptians - explorers of the nile (1988)
the people who produced this track produced a zillion different songs under a zillion different aliases.
that new beat comp also boasted a really terrible take on jamie principle's "baby wants to ride" by an act called b-art. b-art included one renaat vandepapeliere, who went on to found r & s records (another piece of dance music history unto itself i guess). which brings me to another little artifact that i've been enjoying quite a bit lately ....
new beat was something that absolutely wasn't on my radar until about a year ago, when i came across this compilation lp in one of my local haunts:
obviously i picked it up and took a look at the tracklist cuz it looked weird and interesting, and well ... that chick is blue. i found a bunch of names i didn't know and ... max berlin's "she and me" (yes, listed in english)?? i had a listen and found it was vaguely industrial, vaguely new wave, vaguely acid house, and definitely slow. anyway, once i got it home i started doing the requisite internet research on the genre known as new beat (as i am one of those obsessives that NEEDS to know where everything came from and why and how it happened) and came across a history documented over at jahsonic and wikipedia. i'm leaving it up to you to read those, but in light of the recent cosmic phenomenon, i found it interesting that one of new beat's major signifiers is that one of the era's djs played a 45rpm 12 inch at 33rpm +8 - and BAM! there was new beat.
anyway, here is the track that i liked the best off of that compilation.
we are all egyptians - explorers of the nile (1988)
the people who produced this track produced a zillion different songs under a zillion different aliases.
that new beat comp also boasted a really terrible take on jamie principle's "baby wants to ride" by an act called b-art. b-art included one renaat vandepapeliere, who went on to found r & s records (another piece of dance music history unto itself i guess). which brings me to another little artifact that i've been enjoying quite a bit lately ....
posted by jaime at 11:37 PM
2 Comments:
Nice post, Jaime--Didn't know that 45-on-33 mischief was part of all this. Have been listening to lots of newly bought second-hand cassettes of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, as well as early Front 242, stuff that I never owned as a teenager, and only saw the shirts and paraphernalia for; industrial and EBM-derived stuff seems to be in the air these days (I suppose recent Black Dice led me down that rabbithole)...
dude, i just looked at the beginning of the beardo thread and noticed that this was discussed!
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