The Story of Acid Music

Acid house may have started in Chicago, but it quickly moved across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom, where it became the foundation for the early scene, which adopted the yellow smiley symbol to represent acid house music and rave culture. Acid house began influencing UK pop music, emerging in a somewhat sanitized form in songs like s Tripping on Your Love and s Love House , and appearing as remixes of pop songs on by mainstream acts. It also manifested in the number-one hit by electronic band .

however, news media and tabloids devoted an increasing amount of coverage to the hedonistic acid house/rave scene, focusing on its association with psychedelic drugs. The sensationalistic nature of the drugs at early raves and acid house parties. The coverage is widely believed to have ultimately contributed to the banning of acid house, during its heyday, from radio, television, and retail outlets in the Musically, acid house eventually moved away from its almost exclusive reliance on the TB-303, but continued to remain true to its

- -based group of acid house pioneers, formed in and best known for their classic single , which is considered to be the E.

P. which gave birth to the Acid House Movement.

, a member of Phuture, released various solo acid house tracks and remixes

- another Chicago house musician, for Acid Thunder

- another Chicago house musician, for We re Rockin Down The House

- another Chicago house musician, for Frequency

- , UK-based group of house/techno musicians, formed in .

Their first album, Newbuild, was acid house, and occasional acid house influences appear in later tracks.

- 808 State cofounder, for the single

- for What Time Is Love? and their self-described stadium house sound, which mixes acid house with hip-hop, pop, and stadium rock/chant

- Psychedelic techno act formed as a rock band in , in 1986.

One of the first groups to bring acid house and techno into the pop mainstream.

perfectly titled for the youth culture it was about to influence, acidline over and over again with no chords or key changes, just frequency modulation and resonance changes, this was a very bold done this. The track was an instant underground hit making it s way Since my early tracks, I ve truly grown to appreciate the 303.

It really has become the voice of God for me, but as time intriguing as well. There is something about the 303 though that is world today. I cant explain it, but it seems to speak a language across the world.