Editing Rave (section)

=== Belgium ===
The Belgian rave scene and sound have their roots in the late 1980s Belgian EBM and New Beat scenes.

Originally created by DJs slowing down gay Hi-NRG 45rpm records to 33rpm to create a trance-dance groove, New Beat evolved into a [[Belgian techno|native form of hardcore techno]] in the 1990s with the introduction of techno records played at their original speeds or even slightly accelerated.<ref>{{Cite book|last = Reynolds|first = Simon|title = Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|year = 1998|publisher = Picador|quote = New Beat began when DJs started to spin gay Hi-NRG records at 33 r.p.m. rather than the correct 45 r.p.m., creating an eerie, viscous, trance-dance groove. At the height of the craze, Renaat recalled, the Ghent club Boccaccio ‘was like a temple. Everyone was dressed in black and white, dancing this weird, robotic dance.’ [...] As the nineties progressed, the b.p.m. returned to normal, then accelerated, as DJs started playing techno with their turntables set to +8. A native hardcore was born, with labels like Hithouse, Big Time International, Who’s That Beat, Beat Box and Music Man, and groups like Set Up System, Cubic 22, T99, 80 Aum, Incubus, Holy Noise and Meng Syndicate.}}</ref> This brutal new hardcore style spread throughout the European rave circuit and penetrated the pop charts.<ref>{{Cite book|last = Reynolds|first = Simon|title = Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|year = 1998|publisher = Picador|quote = As Belgian hardcore swamped Europe, dominating the underground rave circuit and penetrating the pop charts, the techno cognoscenti blanched in horror at the new style’s brutalism.}}</ref>

The musical contribution of Brooklyn's DJ-producer Joey Beltram to R&S Records, run by Renaat Vandepapeliere, was instrumental in the development of iconic [[Belgian techno]] sounds and anthems.<ref>{{Cite book|last = Reynolds|first = Simon|title = Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|year = 1998|publisher = Picador|quote = The seeds of the new sound, however, germinated somewhere between Belgium and Brooklyn, New York, where DJ–producers like Lenny Dee, Mundo Muzique and Joey Beltram were pushing rave music in a harder and faster direction.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-untold-story-of-joey-beltram-the-techno-titan-behind-the-90s-most-iconic-rave-anthems/ |title=The Untold Story of Joey Beltram, the Techno Titan Behind the 90s' Most Iconic Rave Anthems |website=Vice |date=11 March 2016 }}</ref>