Acid house Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
- Alternate meaning: The Acid House a 1994 novel by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film.
Acid house is a variant of
house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. It began when musicians discovered that they could create interesting sounds with the
Roland TB-303 analogue bass synthesizer by tweaking the resonance and frequency cut-off dials as they played. The term "acid" was used in Chicago at the time as a term for the squelchy "acid" sounds of such bass synthesizers such as the TB-303, and has no connection to
LSD (in fact, the drug most commonly associated with the acid house scene was
MDMA, or Ecstasy). Acid house music became a central part of the early
rave scene in the
U.K, and the yellow
smiley became its emblem.
Notable acid house artists
- Phuture - Chicago-based group of acid house pioneers, formed in 1985, and best known for their classic 1987 single "Acid Tracks", which defined the genre and was its first "track".
- Adonis (artist) - We're Rockin Down The House
- Armando (artist)
- Chip E
- Fingers Inc
- A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
- 808 State - British outfit from Manchester, formed in 1989. Their first album, Newbuild, was acid house, and occasional acid house influences appeared in later tracks.
- Psychic TV
See also: Madchester, acid house party
Sources
- Shapiro, Peter (2000) Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound, ISBN 189102406X.
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