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ACID #1

by Square Roots

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    Introducing the brand new Skylax ACID tee designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo on front centre with the word acid crossed out.

    Printed on organic, high quality tees.
    Available in two colour-ways: white on black or heather grey on Black.
    Please indicate the color in your order

    Limited run of 20 tees. Women collection.

    Includes unlimited streaming of ACID #1 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Introducing the brand new Skylax ACID tee designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo on the heart with the word acid crossed out.

    Printed on organic, high quality tees.
    Available in two colour-ways: white on black or heather grey on Black
    Please indicate the color in your order

    Limited run of 20 tees. Women collection.

    Includes unlimited streaming of ACID #1 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Acid Revenge 05:40
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Acid Bird 09:16
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Acid Swing 05:43
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Acid Dance 05:48
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Acid Love 07:13
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Acid City 07:40
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Acid Rock 06:47
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Acid Order 04:34
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Acid Rhythm 07:10

about

12 secret acid house weapons edits & remixes. Bandcamp exclusive.

📌 "The idea of accumulating every-thing, the idea of constituting a sort of general archive, the desire to contain all times, all ages, all forms, all tastes in one place, the idea of constituting a place of all times that is itself outside time and protected from its erosion, the project of thus organizing a kind of perpetual and indefinite accumulation of time in a place that will not move, all of this belongs to our modernity." Michel Foucault 

📌 "The “acid house sound” is the noise that comes from an electronic bass synthesiser, the Roland TB-303. In 1982, Roland released a transistorised bassline generator to rival the popular, Fender-designed electric bass guitar. Launched alongside their TR-606 drum machine, the TB-303 was part of Roland’s vision of new technology allowing a songwriter access to a robust rhythm section without having to depend on session musicians. By programming a chain of patterns, the TB-303 could play back intricate basslines, an array of knobs, buttons and switches all used to sculpt the bass sound.

Despite this promise of musical liberation, Roland ceased manufacture of the 303 just 18 months later, having produced only 20,000 units. Needless to say, it hadn’t made a huge impact on the Western market: the Japan-born Roland did not include an English language instruction manual with the device, which was a beast to program for the uninitiated. Still, some artists had succeeded in coaxing strong basslines out of the box. Legendary electro-funk outfit Imagination’s Music & Lights and Orange Juice’s new wave classic Rip It Up are two popular songs that used the 303 in a traditional, non-acid house way.

By 1985, the unit was allegedly selling for as little as $50 second-hand, and in Chicago that year a young DJ Pierre picked one up from a bargain store. Together with his friends Earle Smith and Nathaniel Jones, Pierre formed the group Phuture, setting the 303’s basslines to the drum patterns of the burgeoning Chicago house scene on their landmark Acid Tracks, widely considered to be the first acid house record created and eventually receiving a release through Trax Records in 1987. The legend surrounding Acid Tracks is that Ron Hardy, who loved the track, had to play it four times in one night for the crowd to fully understand and appreciate it. Their reaction went from indifference to elation by the fourth play, and it became nicknamed “Ron Hardy’s Acid Track”. The reason it got this nickname still remains opaque but ultimately Phuture kept the original name, and “acid house”, as a subgenre, stuck.

What gave Acid Tracks its acid sound was down to the way that Pierre used the 303. Unwieldy as it was, the 303 was capable of producing decent, more traditional basslines if programmed according to Roland’s conventions. But Pierre was not trying to play it according to Roland’s conventions, and not trying to get a conventional bass sound, and in the process created the alien, unique tones that are still used on records today.

It was because of its commercial failure that the 303 really took off, rather than in spite of it. If the 303 had succeeded as a product, it would not have ended up in the realms of affordability that resulted in the poor communities of Chicago experimenting with it. Whilst it’s still likely that the acid sound would have been discovered eventually, the landscape of both dance music and club culture may have turned out quite differently if it hadn’t come together at the exact time and place that it did.

Acid house was a liberating proposition because it meant that a non-musician could create an acid track with little more than borrowed gear and enough imagination. Whilst there had been non-musical movements before, such as New York’s no wave scene, acid house took it out of the art and performance world and into something far larger and far more inclusive." (Dummy Magazine - 2012)

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released September 21, 2020

Artwork by Danos
Mastering by MB Mastering
(C) & (P) 2003 (Parisonic records / Skylax Records)
Distributed by Discograph

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