Acid Techno
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chava
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Nah, it's pretty mediocre stuff. As thirdform mentioned the midwest, den haag or the cologne acid scene were waaay more creative musicwise. But I'd assume the UK raves were better. Amelie Lens playing your tracks out now is not a mark of longevity, sorry.
That's a common view in london dance music circles and it's also why things like jungle, garage etc haven't had the longevity that house and techno has. as soon as something gets a bit machine like a lot of the london crowd is out. which is a shame because it is still the city where you can hear UK drill, 80s goth and piledriver gabber in the same week. No other city in the world has the diversity we have but we don't know how to appreciate it and defend it.
That being said, I tend to distinguish between acid techno and the liberator style 'london acid' which is a lot more trancey and not to my taste. in the liberator stuff every record builds to a climax then winds down. not really my thing.
here's some funky den haag acid, much grungier and rhythmically interesting imo. try it.
squat parties are more psytrance and jump up dnb these days. however if uglyfunk ever throws a party its one not to miss, weird stuff in the subhead/landstrumm mould. Monox also used to be a good leftfield techno party. Oh and Mark Hawkins could throw down a mean (proper, not liberator) acid set. he moved to berlin and then got cancelled, i think?
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This would be the sound of the more funkier sound systems/djs at squat parties... Much more my thing.
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chava
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This would be the sound of the more funkier sound systems/djs at squat parties... Much more my thing.
Uh oh some of my all-time favs in there. But as you say, he got cancelled, so I'd better skip it.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Some friends of mine were at one where someone fell to their death and they had to go and appear at the inquest or whatever it's called as witnesses. Not really surprising I guess, I would often wander around the places and explore away from the music (if possible) and nine times out of ten there would be loads of holes from one floor to another, bits that had collapsed or were part way through collapsing. Add in loads of rusty metal and so on and it's really pretty much the worst environment in the world to introduce thousands of nutters on various crazy cocktails of drugs who haven't slept for weeks.
I don't mean to sound callous but - the risk not the death itself - is part of the fun though really isn't it.
I don't mean to sound callous but - the risk not the death itself - is part of the fun though really isn't it.
nah, you just listen to it guiltily, like a dirty shag with the ex.
Hilarious noone has realised that aspect of cancel culture. It's just break up inflated to hypermanic political proportions.
The first one I went to in herne Hill had some electrical wiring hanging out of the ceiling that some kids were swinging on.
IdleRich
IdleRich
To be honest I'm surprised there aren't more deaths.
One time I went to one with this guy I knew a bit. He was a trainee doctor and I bumped into him in The End, he was driving to this party and he invited me along. We were at the party for a bit and he wanted to go and get some money so he drove to a petrol station and got money, filled up and was just driving off when he realised he hadn't paid... I think that would have been the end of his medical career if he'd been busted inadvertently stealing petrol (which he would have been cos of the camera driving on drugs, with a pocket full of drugs having not slept for days and so on. Between us we remembered at the very last second.
One time I went to one with this guy I knew a bit. He was a trainee doctor and I bumped into him in The End, he was driving to this party and he invited me along. We were at the party for a bit and he wanted to go and get some money so he drove to a petrol station and got money, filled up and was just driving off when he realised he hadn't paid... I think that would have been the end of his medical career if he'd been busted inadvertently stealing petrol (which he would have been cos of the camera driving on drugs, with a pocket full of drugs having not slept for days and so on. Between us we remembered at the very last second.
i remember going to one on a sunday afternoon, got the big bendy bus from my mates house in stoke newington, without paying, and it was somewhere in bermondsey in some office blocks. We went to meet a friend there who was asleep in a corner when we arrived and then i had to go to shepherds bush for dinner with someone else. i took a balloon for them. and on the way there we went over the bridge again and there was one of those huge warships on the thames and it was a really phantasmagoric experience for me, it felt completely weird and otherworldly. that's what i really used to love about them, the experience of london before/after, as much as the parties themselves
dilbert1
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not necessarily that acerbic, but it reminds me of a springy helical spiral that keeps constantly unwinding
from the same record - total fog and strobe - you're deep into your trip, and from what you can make out, the walls seem to be breathing in time with the music, but I must be ok because i hear the music telling me i'm right
from the same record - total fog and strobe - you're deep into your trip, and from what you can make out, the walls seem to be breathing in time with the music, but I must be ok because i hear the music telling me i'm right
trying to keep it somewhat techno - don't know how acerbic I can get without going too hardcore
slow builder - but by the time you realize how high you are you, it's too late
like a feeling I used to get as kid that gravity was suddenly going to stop working and I would desperately try to somehow cling on to the ground
the other side:
how do you explain this shit to people that weren't there experiencing it at the time?
hearing these sounds raining down?
the future was going to be fucking wild
many hours later, you would go out to your friend's car and she would turn on the radio, and you would hear something completely incongruous to what you just experienced like the beatles reenactment society only with distorted, noisier, louder guitars
or what just seemed like country music with distorted, noisier, louder guitars
and you would turn to your friend, and be like the annoying kid from terminator 2, and say "we're not gonna make it, are we? - people, i mean"
slow builder - but by the time you realize how high you are you, it's too late
like a feeling I used to get as kid that gravity was suddenly going to stop working and I would desperately try to somehow cling on to the ground
the other side:
how do you explain this shit to people that weren't there experiencing it at the time?
hearing these sounds raining down?
the future was going to be fucking wild
many hours later, you would go out to your friend's car and she would turn on the radio, and you would hear something completely incongruous to what you just experienced like the beatles reenactment society only with distorted, noisier, louder guitars
or what just seemed like country music with distorted, noisier, louder guitars
and you would turn to your friend, and be like the annoying kid from terminator 2, and say "we're not gonna make it, are we? - people, i mean"
There was one time I remember listening to the acid pelting my ears after I had set down to get some rest from dancing, and while listening to the sounds modulating, twisting, and turning I thought it wouldn't be too bad if everything just ended right now from a nuclear war (I know, such a terrible thought - what can I say? I must have been tripping pretty hard!)