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n. Any of various styles of electronic music that arose and flourished in the 1980s.
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New Beat is a rock album released in 2002 by New York City-based trio The Exit.
New Beat is an electronic dance music term that was used in the 1980s with two different meanings, one a collective term used in the U.S. for various electronic music styles, and the other a reference to the New Beat sound: a particular electronic music genre that flourished in Western Europe during the mid-1980s. New Beat is also used as a reference to the wider Belgian underground music scene and subculture during the 1980s.
Usage examples of "new beat".
The result was that both men felt the new beat frequencies as a nightmarish fluttering of their very thoughts.
It flew off in forced perspective, flapping heavily as the dancers picked up the new beat.
You let him alone an' go find a new beat for yourself, an' see 't I don't catch either of ye fightin' in the streets again, or I'll put ye where ye'll get another kind of a beat if ye don't walk straight.
He'd much rather have taken Anne dancing to one of the new beat groups that regularly played at the Pavilion Gardens, or to the Opera House to see a film.
Qwilleran said with the casual air of authority that comes easily to a newsman after three days on a new beat.
Qwilleran returned to his office, pondering the complexities of his new beat and thinking fondly of lunch in the familiar drabness of the Press Club, where the wall color was Sirloin, Medium Rare.