Quote Originally Posted by Ritzi Lee
In 1989 Beltram started releasing some of his early productions on several small New York record labels. A year later he caught the eye of R & S Records in Belgium and by mid 1990 released his first major record with that company titled "Energy Flash". That was even before the hardcore sound of Euromasters / Rotterdam was there... But it was the time that the euro techno sound took over from the populair Bigbeat sound in the late 80's. Suddenly there was the Belgium techno sound (1990), and short after that the hardcore / gabber. (1991)

A funny thing about Energy Flash. Beltram did not even had the intention to call it techno, but just house music. The sound was totally different from the Detroit techno sound, but it definitly wasn't housemusic at all, because the sound was to harsh / hard.

2 DB: Just name 1 record / artist besides Beltram's music that influenced the creation of the hard techno sound in 1990. I mean the acidhouse sound of 1986 / 1987 / 1988 was a totally different thing. And hard metal and stuff was more like a rock thing / scene kinda thing... Nothing to do with house or techno or so..
Didn't Acardipane write "We Have Arrived" in 1989?