THE SOUND OF V/VM NEW BEAT

It's time to go back, way back into the past. New Beat was instrumental in V/Vm becoming involved in making, mutating and destroying sound. V/Vm has never forgotten this Belgian influence. Traces of a New Beat influence can be found on the earliest V/Vm releases, subsequently the audio released by V/Vm has moved away from being solely electronic into other areas. V/Vm has decided to revive the New Beat style as we believe it is the only Electronic style which currently remains untouched and unbastardised by todays musicians. Indeed people are falling over themselves to make straight acid, house and techno tracks. New Beat has somehow escaped the remake unlike every genre surrounding it. Dipping back into the V/Vm archive and taking influence from the Belgian sounds of eighty eight and eighty nine, all of the original records remained in the collection. One of the birthplaces of New Beat, Destelbergen, was visited in January, 2005 on a windswept night much to the amusement of the locals in the only bar there.