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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.
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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
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đ "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 FoucaultÂ
đ "In 1987, house music wasnât necessarily a new thing in the UK. Steve âSilkâ Hurley had taken his anthemic Jack Your Body to the number 1 spot in the UK charts, and tacky medley series such as Mirageâs âJack Mixâ were proving popular. But the acid sound had not quite taken over the United Kingdom. This changed with a holiday that has since become part of dance musicâs folklore. In 1987, four guys â Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker â went to Ibiza for a holiday in celebration of Paul Oakenfoldâs birthday. The group were already DJs, and Rampling had read about Ibiza and the afterhours parties already, and they went to the open air club Amnesia. There, they heard its DJ, Alfredo, mixing tracks in a revelatory, eclectic style. The âBalearicâ style of weaving in soul, indie, funk and â importantly â some of the acid house imports from Chicago. It sounded incredible to the group, who had tried the then-new drug ecstasy out there.
When Rampling returned to London, he tried to recreate the Ibiza experience, exchanging the sun-soaked Balearic island for a fitness centre on Southwark Street. The first party he and his wife Jenny threw, held on December 5th 1987, was called Shoom. Carl Cox provided the sound system and the party carried on all night â the police wouldnât bother them in that part of the city, even though licensing laws did not allow partying beyond 3.30am at the time. Even if they had, they wouldâve been bemused by the crowd, as MDMA was so uncommon at the time that the police wouldnât recognise people on it. It took a while to kick off properly, but word spread and acid house started taking over, with other clubs starting to play it and scenes such as soul and rare groove soon being replaced as the dominant sounds of London. In its three year lifespan, Shoom helped define the acid sound along with the clubs The Trip and Future. It also introduced the world to one particular image â on its third flyer, Shoom introduced the smiley face symbol that became the defining image of acid house.
Thatâs how legend has it, anyway. The truth is, acid house had existed in the UK beforehand. A video shot in Moss Side, Manchester in 1986 shows a predominantly black audience dancing to DJ-mixed acid house, including Adonisâ classic No Way Back. Then again, there are examples of music made with the TB-303 in an acid-esque style that predate the Chicago explosion as well, such as Alexander Robotnickâs Problems DâAmour and the wonderful oddity that is Bollywood composer Charanjit Singhâs 1982 record Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat, which many trainspotters and archivists have retrospectively called the first acid house record. Writing in The Guardian, Louis Pattison explains that Singh âwent into the studio with some new kit â a Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a Roland TB-303 â and decided to make a record that combined western dance music with the droning ragas of Indian classical music.â
The difference between proto-acid artists like Singh and the Chicago acid pioneers, and these earlier acid house parties in the UK and nights like Shoom, is that neither of them presented acid house in the form that it would eventually take off as. In an interview with Resident Advisor, Terry Farley â a DJ in the upstairs room of Shoom alongside Andrew Weatherall, and founder of influential fanzine Boyâs Own â puts it best: âHouse music was already being played in some gay clubs and there was a rare groove club in London called The Hug club where everyone took Ecstasy and sat on the floor. Danny didnât bring back house from Ibiza, he was just the first person to put it all together in a package.â
As with youth movements like punk, it was an extraordinarily creative time â and not only for music. In the words of music critic Simon Reynolds, writing in his book Energy Flash, âApart from Boyâs Own, there was next to no fanzine documentation of the scene as it happened. People were too busy having fun. But it was a creative period for short-term artifacts like t-shirts, flyers and club design.â Danny Rampling described the creative flux that the movement offered, saying how it opened opportunities for young people to pursue creative careers that would not have been possible before: âIf they wanted to be a DJ, thatâs what people did. It created a whole way of life for people.â
As acid house grew bigger and bigger in the underground, it started to make waves outside of the clubs and into mainstream consciousness. The biggest moment so far came in April 1988, when Mark Moore, under the name SâExpress, released Theme From SâExpress, the first acid house record to top the UK charts. Theme From SâExpress is a pop banger, but it bears little resemblance to the hypnotic and heavy sounds of the early Chicago records â thereâs a 303 line, but thatâs about it, with the rest of the song comprising of overblown and busy samples.
After seeing the success of tracks like Theme From SâExpress and noticing the popular demand for acid house, record labels started to capitalise on the fad. Chart hits received clumsy acid house reworks in the same way that many hits of the early 1980s received extended 12â versions. Whilst many of these extended 12â mixes, particularly those by âedit serviceâ groups like Razormaid! and Disconet, are sought out by record collectors today, the âacid house remixâ fad does not command much of a cult following. Itâs likely that it never will, with many of these remixes sounding incredibly dated and throwaway by todayâs technological standards." (Dummy Magazine - 2012)
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released October 8, 2020
Artwork by Danos
Mastering by MB Mastering
(C) & (P) 2003 (Parisonic records / Skylax Records)
Distributed by Discograph
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