Why do I keep missing 303 Day?
For those not up on their music technology, '303' refers to a music-making box called the Roland TB-303 Bass Line which was made by the Roland corporation back when everyone was into Kajagoogoo and Toto.
The silver box had a built-in sequencer. Party kids high on emulsion and terps quickly worked out you could get a biting acidic sound in the higher registers of this bass unit. And electronic music's longest-lasting underground genre was born.
Two acid tracks three decades apart, there.
And yet, I keep missing the most important day of the year. The one date in which we can all come together by tweeting alone from our respective bedrooms about how great acid house music is. That date is, of course, 3/03.
Not only is the date 3/03 today, there are exactly 303 days left till the end of the year! Happy Acid House day! :-) pic.twitter.com/fO3jZbqpWI— Suddi Raval (@suddiraval) March 3, 2017
Nope. Completely missed it. I should blog on March 3rd every year about the wonders of acid house and acid techno and all things acid but I don't. Tsssch. Bad blogger.
I fear that, back in the 1980s, instead of buying that magical silver box I would have been bopping to Kajagoogoo. That, blogchums, is the real horror of me missing 303 Day.
*I'm hoping this is a reference to a Kajagoogoo lyric. I may be getting my bands mixed up.
Further Fats: Syntheme's winsome shit, Kompakt's ambient 'shosts' and Circlesquare's dullness (2009)
Further Fats: Painting 2010 beige: Eno, Orb, Hardfloor and Seefeel (2010)