Acid house
Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. It began when musicians discovered that they could create interesting sounds with the Roland TB-303 analogue bass synthesizer by tweaking the resonant frequency dial as they played.
Notable acid house artists
- Phuture - Chicago-based
group of acid house pioneers, formed in 1985,
and best known for their classic 1987 single "Acid Tracks", which defined
the genre
- 808 State - British
outfit from Manchester,
formed in 1989. Their first
album, Newbuild, was acid house, and occasional acid house influences
appeared in later tracks.
