Various
Serious Beats Vinyl 1

Listening notes

Serious Beats Vinyl 1 is a 1993 various artists release issued by Trance Mission under catalog number TM 041. The record arrives as a vinyl-format companion to what was, by that point, an established Belgian compilation series, translating the Serious Beats brand onto a format suited to club and DJ use.

The single record spans four tracks across two sides. Side A opens with "Delargo 1," a nine-minute-and-twenty-four-second piece, followed by "Oscar" at four minutes and twenty-eight seconds, the shortest entry on the release. Side B carries the longer material: "Sputnik Sunday" runs ten minutes and twelve seconds, making it the lengthiest track on the record, while "Babyloop" closes things out at eight minutes and thirty-seven seconds. The total playing time across both sides amounts to approximately thirty-two minutes and forty-one seconds.

The release is catalogued under the genres Electronic, Hard Trance, House, and Trance, a combination that reflects the range of sounds circulating through Belgian and broader European club culture at the time. The presence of both House and Hard Trance in the same genre classification points to the fluid boundaries that characterized early-1990s dance music, when subgenres were still actively being defined and the lines between them were often deliberately blurred by labels and DJs alike.

Beyond these documented details, the available record does not extend to personnel, production credits, pressing information, or chart performance. Readers and researchers consulting this entry should treat those areas as unverified pending further documentation. What the catalog data does confirm is a compact, four-track vinyl document of a specific moment in early-1990s European electronic music, issued by a label that maintained a consistent presence in the Belgian dance scene during that period.