The Sound of Belgium

00:07:42 And at times, these were all playing simultaneously.

00:10:58 Ostend club The Groove, became the premier place for these new sounds to be experienced.

00:13:15 They were watching the people that went to the Popcorn.

00:16:35 And this is true Popcorn.

00:20:16 Back then I paid about 75 cents per record. To have them pressed.

00:23:24 And then everything just exploded.

00:28:09 By mixing the darkest wavetracks with obscure songs from the fringes of the pop music establishment

00:30:43 I spent seven months looking for "Elle et moi" by Max Berlin.

00:33:24 Well, it popped-up overnight. Some new sounds and then they call it New Beat.

00:36:18 What exactly is New Beat?

00:39:39 Boccaccio was a very glamorous club.

00:43:23 Extravagance and abundance became an escape.

00:46:10 When Madonna released "La Isla Bonita", she was kicked-off of the first spot.

00:48:56 A lot of money was going around. There really was no recession.

00:52:11 As it was all playback it was easy to travel between clubs with your group.

00:55:29 You shall not perish.

00:57:47 This is pretty useless. But with just a turn of the right knob ...

01:01:19 So they were primed to produce it.

01:04:11 For example, T99's "Anasthasia".

01:06:44 You're just a kid with a lot of love for the equipment and this music.

01:10:49 They'd go to the next one that opened.

01:13:56 It was the XTC of course, I hadn't quite figured that out.

01:16:44 A group of 150 policemen had the club surrounded.

01:19:20 Afterwards, they felt content of their place.