New beat
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For the album by The Exit, see New Beat (album).
New beat is a Belgian electronic dance music genre that fuses elements of new wave, hi-NRG,[2] EBM and hip hop (e.g. scratching).[3][4] It flourished in Western Europe during the late-1980s.[1]
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New beat spawned a subgenre called "hard beat" (a blend of EBM, new beat and acid house)[5] and became a key influence on the evolution of European electronic dance music styles such as Belgian techno, hardcore techno and gabber.