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"'DJs purposely started to play these records at the wrong speed. And even producers started to record this way, because it was such an interesting sound.' … The sound in question was new beat, a hypnotic, slowed-down form of dance music that exploded across Belgium in the mid- to late 1980s."

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Retracing Belgian New Beat’s Accidental Explosion In the mid-to-late ’80s, hypnotic, slowed-down dance music took Belgium—and later Europe—by storm. https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/belgian-new-beat-album-guide?ref=thetonearm.com