original acid house VS. acid house classicism

'Your Only Friend'!

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jniimi/keithjessmatos.JPG

So i'd have to pick the original stuff, even if was it is all monotonous doof-doof-doof nonsense for drugged up losers made by gay Chicago residents.

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-466015-1128536574.jpeg

not really acid house maybe? i dunno

predictably worthy, probably slated on ILX

I think a good place to start is to get these tunes:

Professor of Acid - "Drug store"
Phuture - "We are phuture"
6 Brown Brothers - "Battery Acid"
Dr Derelict - "That shit's wild"
Fast Eddie - "Acid Thunder"
Phuture - "Slam"

also don't forget that in order to be REAL acid house, it must have a horrible record sleeve (in fact, ANY record with horrible "3D" psychedelic graphics is automatically acid house!)

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_abc/_d/do420.jpg

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_label/disko_b/db27a.jpg

by the way, the nastiest chicago acid track ever isn't by phuture or pierre or anything like that ... it's by PARRIS MITCHELL + DJ FUNK and it's called "the underground".

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZBARV8HYT21A0FJ3EGJSMBYNN

hott

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000ICYA.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I hear listening to that nu-Acid House muzak has been known to turn ravers in their mid 20s into balding, 40 year old coffee breath stanking, art teacher looking weirdos

LOL. How true.

there's this newish acid 12" on soul jazz (!) by a dude who calls himself capracara, called 'opal rush'. i must have spent 15 minutes googling to try to figure out if it was old or new, because it sounds sort of raw and dirty and old--it has this strange patina of age to it. it's good but i like stuff like 'undoing the laces' better.

either one is great

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/thumb/0/0c/The_Best_of_Hardfloor.png/252px-The_Best_of_Hardfloor.png

This is pretty essential for any nu-Acid House fan, it's one disc of original Hardfloor tunes and one disc of remixes they've done ("Yeke Yeke", "Our Darkness, "Blue Monday", etc.), and both are awesome.

Hardfloor's Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk side project is also worth checking out, it's a marriage of funk-sampling breaks and acid house, which surprisingly enough sounds quite good.

Hmm, let me try that pic again:

http://www.spiralfrog.com/sfimages/covers/pop/cov200/dre500/e575/e57552f65ma.jpg

Another great 90s nu-acid house producer is Emmanuel Top, as mentioned upthread. His tracks ("Turkish Bazar", "Acid Phase", "Spherique", etc.) are pretty much as minimal and psychedelic as the original acid house tunes, but he's also a master of getting the maximum effect out of minimal building blocks.

I bought this recently, it's a really good acid house primer as well as including a few more obscure tracks, and is nicely mixed:

http://www.discogs.com/release/1415843

1-01 Beat Club, The Security
1-02 Rude Boy Farley Keith, The Give Your Self To Me
1-03 Willie Wonka It's Now Or Never
1-04 Cultural Vibe Ma Foom Bey
1-05 Phuture Acid Trax
1-06 Fast Eddie* Acid Thunder
1-07 Phuture We Are Phuture
1-08 Neil Howard* To Be Or Not To Be
1-09 On The House Ride The Rhythm
1-10 Rhythim Is Rhythim The Dance
1-11 Mickey Oliver In-Ten-Si-T
1-12 Lime (2) On The Grid
1-13 Unique 3 The Theme (Original 8 Track Mix)
1-14 Renegade Soundwave The Phantom
1-15 Deee Lite* Ft. Osca Child Wild Times (Mayday Mix)
1-16 R Tyme* R-Theme (Mayday Mix)
1-17 Pierre's Pfantasy Club Got The Bug
1-18 Frankie Knuckles Ft. Jamie Principle Baby Wants To Ride
1-19 Laurent X Machines
1-20 Virgo* In A Vision
1-21 Mr Fingers* Can You Feel It

I say we Youtube the show right here.

Yeah seconding that (re: Art of Acid), I don't think I even disliked any of the remixes which is saying something considering Boys Noize and the Plump DJs are on there.

Saw Syntheme do a pretty rocking live acid set a few weeks back, it was maybe a bit fierce to qualify as classicism but whatever

Last video was broken:

Also, have only listened to a couple of those remixes, will give them a proper go if they're good!

Bah!

Weird, I'm playing it now. Anyhoo, yay Phuture. This needs to be here.

Yes, strange. Anyway, time for Acid Thunder!

I think that might be my all-time favourite acid house track.

This next track is an odd one. The tracklisting is Neil Howard's "To be or not to be", but I know it from this mix as Neal Howard's "The Gathering". Youtube agrees with the latter, FWIW. Anyway, it's a really good track:

I am enjoying this at the moment.

http://www.mezerik.com/output/Placid/An_Acid_Megamix.mp3

http://www.acid-house.net/medley.jpg

original acid house VS. acid house classicism

ahahahahhahaaa

Also, if anyone is interested in old grimy chicago tracks I have something they might be interested in. shoot me an email.

Indian composer and session musician Charanjit Singh invented acid house in 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqnPYwoiF4

!

so much luv for the hindustani ppl

There's more discussion on that album (and links to Geeta's informative blog posts analyzing it) in this thread:

Techno/House Bobbins of the past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQO1mVgkmpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lmgI2Xf2Qk&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBV-5dj2VY

UR = mid-school ?

IMO these three are still the top 3 acid house tunes of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekn7cjLaGOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga9p4YE3oS0&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdPUc4TYQU

So I guess classicism wins 2-1.

I actually bought (and still own) that frog-licking "Trancemaster" comp, that's where I first heard the "Higher State of Consciousness". Back in 1995 me and my friends used to play it all the time, one friend called it "the orgasm tune", because it orgasms in the end. It was pretty weird to see a remix of the tune getting a lot of airplay on MTV a year or so later (though the remix wasn't as good as the "Tweekin' Acid Funk" version, which I think is the best). IIRC there was also a crappy vocal remix of the tune, or did I imagine that?

here's the one Ege Bam Yasi track I've heard, was pretty into back in the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5MCuC6jeI4

Also check this for a 303 workout; was out around the same time as Higher States.... and used to mock people [ not anymore, Tuomas ;) ] who rated Josh Wink, when this is delivers a great build up and then total carnage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syg2jvMzf6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApVwV6eIZk0

System 7 - Alpha Wave ( Plastikman Acid House Mix )

That josh wink track is such wank

What do you mean by that?

"Higher State of Consciousness" its cheesy, the breakbeat, the drum roll he threw every dance cliche into one track

Hate to say it, but Higher State of Consciousness does sound like 100% pure wank to me, even down to the title of it. Aceperience doesn't do much for me either.

Er, I think acid house as a whole is full of cheesy stuff: "I Gotta Big Dick", "This Is Acid", etc. But who cares if it's cheesy? This is dance music, not some serious armchair stuff, sometimes the cheesiness just makes it better. And I don't think the breakbeat was that big a cliche back in 1995 - certainly there were few artists (Hardfloor maybe?) before Wink who'd combined it with the classic acid sound. That shit sounded fresh!

If you were into techno in 1995 trust me it was prob one of the most hated tracks of that year, strictly for the mixmag/ibiza crew, i mean come on this was around the time basic channel came out

If you discard "Higher State Consciousness" as "cheesy" or "wank", there are dozens of other acid classics you could discard on the same basis. Acid house is a pretty wanky genre!

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If you were into techno in 1995 trust me it was prob one of the most hated tracks of that year, strictly for the mixmag/ibiza crew, i mean come on this was around the time basic channel came out.

It certainly wasn't hated among the techno fans I was hanging with, but maybe we weren't serious enough? We just loved to dance to it. And how many people were really listening to Basic Channel back in 1995?

Anyway, I don't think the tune is any better or worse today based on if some segment of techno listeners hated it 15 years ago.

And how many people were really listening to Basic Channel back in 1995?

v good for insomnia

Acid house is a pretty wanky genre!

acid dream wank girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVIGZHdtco

And how many people were really listening to Basic Channel back in 1995

Plenty, i remember seeing them live with jeff mills around 95-96 @ lost everyone thought they were from detroit back then tho

Also talking about hate and techno http://www.discogs.com/Carl-Craig-Landcruising/release/18835 alot of 'techno' fans got pissed at this cos a) it had a guitar on it b) it was on warner brother

O and i forgot the time scretched vocal on HSC :|

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Thanks to the "epic" Donato Dozzy I got into Emmanual Top last year (I see Tuomas mentions him up there). The absolute master of the long acid build.

This is my favourite track of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsc5s_YexA

Anyway lets get back to the acid, surprised this aint been posed yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBPYORKOOhg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDgIMnDtP4&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZCmt38liQ

area man called x-101 dislikes crossover record

Where's Your Child my favourite acid track evah!

alot of 'techno' fans got pissed at this cos a) it had a guitar on it b) it was on warner brother

don't forget c) because they're tools

Thanks to the "epic" Donato Dozzy I got into Emmanual Top last year (I see Tuomas mentions him up there). The absolute master of the long acid build.

I started a thread on Emmanuel Top a few weeks ago, he's definitely my favourite new school acid house producer, alongside Hardfloor:

Emmanuel Top

With all the Hawtin fanboy love around here, I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:
http://www.discogs.com/Jack-Master-Basement-Trax-Vol-1/release/35578

You might also want to look into this:
http://www.discogs.com/label/7777

http://www.discogs.com/TOM-Project-Renaissance/master/5889
http://www.discogs.com/Leron-Carson-Red-Lightbulb-Theory-87-88/release/1947914

Hmm, I guess I forgot Air Liquide combined breaks (with a very obvious Cypress Hill sample) and 303 a year before Wink, but you'd have to stretch the definition a bit to call this "acid house":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8v2NpgX_Y

Here are a couple of other Chicago related goodies:

http://www.discogs.com/Kevin-Starke-151/release/2219725
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tevo+Howard

another good one:

Ecstasy Club: Jesus Loves The Acid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhSB_6EQ0DM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aAxUglxdQ