In the late eighties, Belgium got its groove on to New Beat, a surreal electronic music genre that soon conquered the neighbouring countries too. The huge success of this eclectic precursor of house music appeared to come out of nowhere, but this is not the case. Our country has a long and rich musical tradition of dance halls with Decap organs to Popcorn to uptempo Belgian techno. Young people from all over Western Europe spent days on end going from one Belgian mega disco to the next. An alternative chronicle of Belgian music history to a soundtrack of pumping beats.