For the 1994 short story collection by Irvine Welsh, see The Acid House.
Acid house
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Chicago house[1]
hi-NRG[2]
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1985, Chicago, U.S.
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Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer,[1] an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986.
Acid house soon became popular in 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.
Acid house brought house music to a worldwide audience.[3] The influence of acid house can be heard in later styles of dance music including trance, hardcore, jungle, big beat, techno and trip hop.[4][5]
^ ab"Acid House Entry". AllMusic.
^"Electronic Musician." (1992). 7-12 (8), Polyphony Publishing Company/University of California, p. 7, ISSN 0884-4720. Quote: "[House] derivations include deep house (an integration of Chicago house and New York R&B), acid house, a hybrid of hi-NRG and conventional dance music), and hip house (a mixture of house, hip hop, and rap)."
^Cite error: The named reference Bogdanov2000pvii was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Trance". AllMusic. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
^Shapiro, Peter (2000). Modulations: A History of Electronic Music. Caipirinha Productions Inc. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-8195-6498-2.
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