Intense Records

Erotiques New Beat [LTD PICTURE DISC] (PRE-ORDER)

New Beat
MPD026PIC
Old Skool
Picture Disc

£24.16 (£28.99 incl. VAT)

TRACKLISTINGA1. Iconoclass - Tenebra A2. CorrupEon House - Dumbo Beat A3. Axidan - SaharaMoon A4. Ugly Mood - Tuning Off A5. CorrupEon House - Jump B1. CorrupEon House- No Doctor No B2. Acid Aliens - Balearic B3. Ugly Mood - Consulted Book B4. UglyMood - Words I Up B5. Acid Aliens - Demons In The ClosetThe year is 1989 and it's the peak ofthe New Beat craze that sweptEurope and the world with Belgium at its epicenter. Not limited to records and clubs,the New Beat lifestyle was marketed to death with all sorts of fashion items, aplethora of accessories and...eroEc videos.EroEca, sensuality, and sexuality have always been part of New Beat's DNA, but ourjaws sEll dropped to the floor when we first laid eyes upon an eroEc New Beat VHSdeadstock gathering dust in a forgo7en video store in the middle of nowhere inSwitzerland.So we did what every New Beat fan would have done, we watched the video andcringed (at its low budget producEon values and tacky male gaze) while we weretransported to 1989 Belgium, with the bodies, poses, styles and backdrops you'dexpect from that bygone era.Our ears, however, were in for a treat. The video's OST uses almost the very sametracklist as one of the countless New Beat compilaEons marketed as LPs: King of theBeat, instantly recognizable among many for its yellow front cover featuring a stampwith King Baudoin's profile.That record was actually a fake compilaEon seemingly gathering several arEsts but infact enErely composed by the same trio. It offers a lovely snapshot of various moodsand styles found within the New Beat genre: downright eroEc tracks, proto-Goanumbers, Orientalist takes on exoEc sounds, tracks driven by iconic film samples, andtracks built around silly samples, such as an elephant's trumpet. And then some.That's when we decided to reissue this compilaEon. While many New Beat trackshave been played and compiled to death, there are sEll brilliant records to rescuefrom oblivion, and this is one of them.