I'm pretty sure acid is the best kind of music.
I go through phases. Recently it's been ambient dub centred around the Beyond label of the mid-90s. I went through a big house phase a few weeks ago. And sometimes I just want noisy techno (Objekt's pretty good for this: I keep hearing sounds on the street that sound like this album).
Acid, though, is the music I'll always go back to whatever my mood. Because of its technological restraints (imagine having a genre of music that can only be made on the banjo), acid barely changes. One Josh Wink record aside, it has never commercialised, nor has it ever faded to nothing.
I Love Acid are parping out some great records at the moment. And imagine my delight when I discovered this Twitter account.
New favourite Twitter account: @303OClock. 1,505 acid tracks and counting. I'm going in. I may be some time.
— Fat Roland (@FatRoland) October 1, 2015
And nothing will beat Hardfloor's sledgehammer acid build-ups.Maybe the best thing about acid, whether it's acid techno, acid house, acid gabba or acid trousers, is it's never going to be a topic of conversation at a family dinner table. There may be spilled gravy over Ed Sheeran's performance on X Factor, but no-one's going to get into a humus fight over the best era of Lords Of Acid. Acid is somehow secret clubber's knowledge, forever shaded from the glare of the mainstream. Maybe it's the drug connotations, I dunno.
Not that I've ever done the drug. No seriously, I haven't. My mind's weird enough as it is.
Acid is totally the best kind of music. Delve into those links above. Because when it's good, it's proper good. Even acid trousers, which is definitely a thing, honest. Ahem.
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