This Is Belgium has been played on NTS shows including NTS SXSW Showcase 2016, with 1986 first played on 20 March 2016.

Dressed up as This Is Belgium, Optimo give a history lesson of Belgian New Beat with four throbbing, gristly edits of underground classic material. JD Twitch and JG Wilkes have long worn their interest in the New Beat sound on their sleeves, even doing an album-long mix for Ghent's legendary R&S records, and it's not hard to guess the grounds for their inspiration, as the sound is a feverish hybrid that neatly befits the Optimo boys' own genre-fuck mixing style. Labeled by year,…