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ACID HOUSE - The smile’s music

ARTISTS: Sleezy D, Adonis, Phuture, Armando, Lil Louis, D-Mob, Fast Eddie, Miss Nicky Trax, Bam Bam, 808 State, Dj Pierre, A Guy Called Gerald, Humanoid, S-Express, Maurice, Psychic TV, K. Alexi Shelby, Bobby Konders


- from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago, Illinois. The defining feature of a 'squelching' bass sound was produced using the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer. Acid house spread to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes. By the late 1980s, Acid house had moved into the British mainstream, where it had some influence on pop and dance styles. Nicknamed the sound of acid, the influence of acid house can be heard in subsequent styles of music that include trance, Goa trance, psychedelic trance, breakbeat, big beat, and techno.

Acid house's minimalist production aesthetic combined house music's ubiquitous programmed 4/4 beat with the electronic ‘squelch' sound produced by the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer by constantly modulating its frequency and resonance controls to create 'movement' in otherwise simple bass patterns. Other elements, such as synthetic strings and stabs, were usually minimal. Sometimes tracks were instrumentals such as Phuture's Acid Trax, or contained full vocal performances such as Pierre's Pfantasy Club's Dream Girl, while others were essentially instrumentals complemented by the odd spoken word 'drop-in', such as Phuture's Slam.


- House Music - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music
- Trax Records - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trax_Records
- The Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303
- first developments of the rave - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave
- Sunrise/Back To The Future - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise/Back_to_the_Future



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