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can someone explain to me what 'acid' refers to when defining a musical genre.. and some examples of those who create it |
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acid refers to techno made with the roland 303 'bassline' drum machine. the drum machine has a synthesized programmable 'bassline' thats parameters can be adjusted in real time. when it was released, it was intended to act as a backup band for folk using drum machines because that had no musical friends. the 'bassline' sound was rather rediculous sounding and in fact, sounded NOTHING like a bass guitar. years later, techno pioneers found these machines available rather cheaply in thriftstores and the like, and found that by through a little knob twiddling, beautiful sounds could come out of this little piece of previous obsolesence... these sounds became known as 'acid' sounds. from all i know the name 'acid' came from that marshall jefferson track 'acid tracks'.. probably named because people eating acid in warehouse parties really loved the sound of the 303 (just guessing there). so to answer your question, acid techno/house/whatever is any music made with the 303 bassline being a primary element. check out aphex's UI series for the most pure/beautiful examples of acid. hope this helps.. |
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1) I desrve props for giving you that info, especially since im at work and this is virtually the busiest day out of the entire ear at my office. 2) I can't believe no one else responded to this. For shame xltronic crew, for shame.. I guess no one cares about their roots these days. 3) sorry for all the typos and grammatical errors. I'm sure you get the idea though. |
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because we covered all this about 5 days ago |
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wow. how esoteric can u get? I didnt expect that. okay, props to you then |
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heh, my bad. |
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303s are great ;) Anyone else ever sample jar lids being depressed rapidly? I've gotten great tb-303 like sounds out of a large prego spaghetti sauce jar. Just a tip for the poor like me! :) |
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music worthy of being dubbed: The Spaghetti-b303! |
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303s weren't the orignal Acid... it comes from the term "Acid Burn" meaning, IIRC, sampling other tracks etc....slang term in chicago house circles... My memory is shit but that's close....it existed before "Acid Trax" anyway... |
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I should add that the true "ACID" sound of the 303 comes from when it's batteries are on the way out.... The filters work very differently...plus it used to fuck the memory up leading to very odd shit..... |
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interesting, the info from your last post, jand. what is IIRC though? |
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If I recall correctly.... Hang around...you'll notice that my mem is like 16K....but I'm pretty sure of the above... Acid was my thing....I so wish I hadn't sold for SH101 for fucking smack...a BIG REGRET!!!!!!! |
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interesting.. |
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