As the Fenix rises from its grave, the Fire burns again.
FenixFire makes the rebirth: not reinventing the old, but giving birth to the new.
New Beat was once a mixture of various styles, from Electric Body Music, world and ethnic sounds, over movie themes to electronic interpretations to worldwide hits.
NewBeat was a brand new hype and exceeding to a new style of music : the first electronic dance music, the first ‘edm’.
Today we are proud to announce that the Fire is burning – again- and the Fenix is born again!
Fenix Fire Records is bringing New Beat back to life.
Fenix Fire Records has taken over the rather aggressive visuals of EBM bands, as New Beat is part of that heritage. And as our music is a mixture and a crossover between many styles, so are probably our producers, including sexual orientation, political views, their (non-)believes or anything else what really does not matter. That is because we just want to publish good music, nothing more, nothing less.
NewBeat was born in 1986. Or at least according to be considered as the first NewBeat track : A Split-Second – Flesh. That track was, and a lot of others before too, played at wrong speed, at 33 + 8 with your Technics SL1200.
Afterwards, it evolved very fast into several other styles, from ‘euro-house’ to ‘rave’, to early techno and trance, until today’s EDM. Despite of the groundbreaking creativity, NewBeat was a little lost in time, even in the history of dance-music.
Let us remember : NewBeat clubs were the first tempels to play only one style. NewBeat records were considered as a style, not as a dj-tool. And of course there was Chicago-house and Detroit Techno, but they never got that large and mainstream as NewBeat was.
NewBeat was a total package. Clubs, Composers, Art, Fashion,… and of course the very inventive DJs.
To learn more, watch TSOB, a good documentary about NewBeat as it was.
Watch the trailer :