 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 (nobody)...and 514 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614201 Today 5 Topics 127548 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Why is the genre of music called acid? I know the synth with high resonance and tunes that are often in sixteenth notes is the heart and soul (or so is my understanding). But why is this sound given the name acid? I dont see how it relates to lsd... so I'm assuming its something else entirely. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you ever tasted something acidy? then you'd know because the sound resembles the taste of acid perfectly imo. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I believe the TB-303 was the main ingredient used in Acid house tracks when the largely drug fueled scene emerged in london and manchester during the late eighties. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
its just got a kind of synthetic, chemical, harshness about it |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's subjective but i don't agree... to me "acid" would rather refer to some kind of electronic high-pitched sounds. by the way, i never heard any "acid" track i found good so far... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"to me "acid" would rather refer to some kind of electronic high-pitched sounds. " kinda what makes acid acid imo :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"In truth, acid house had already started long before the first 'Acid Trax' were commerically released. Amongst the scores of Chicagoans who were buying equipment and trying to learn how to make tracks was one DJ Pierre, who'd started out playing Italian imports at roller discos in the Chicago suburbs, and who had joined Lil Louis for his notorious parties. "Phuture was me and two other guys, Spanky and Herbert J." remembers Pierre. "We had this Roland 303, which was a bassline machine, and we were trying to figure out how to use it. When we switched it on, that acid sound was already in it and we liked the sound of it so we decided to add some drums and make a track with it. We gave it to Ron Hardy who started playing it straight away. In fact, the first time he played it, he played it four times in one night! The first time people were like, 'what the fuck is this?' but by the the fourth they loved it. Then I started to hear that Ron was playing some new thing they were calling 'Ron Hardy's Acid Trax', and everybody thought it was something he'd made himself. Eventually we found out that it was our track so we called it 'Acid Trax'. I think we may have made it as early as 1985, but Ron was playing it for a long time before it came out." - http://www.jahsonic.com/AcidHouse.html |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ah... well : ) maybe i don't find it high-pitched because i listen to Sachiko M and the likes? or maybe i just heard non-representative tracks so far anyway, i have my own idea of a sound that would "taste acid" but i can't describe it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
When you do acid you notice your body more. Your orifices. Your asshole. Your mouth. Farting. The farty mouthy asshole sound of the 303 is how you notice your body while on acid. Or, parties in detroit were fueled by lsd when this tb-303 music started to arise. Thus, acid. Those are my guesses. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i see, check out some ceephax acid crew for that sound..or some earlier aphex. you might find that sound - i'd recommend some tracks but im at work atm, and i don't know any song titles.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Of course Im crazy |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i have some early Aphex (all downloaded from a friends' ftp years ago), i don't remember, maybe the sound i'm thinking of is in it... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
or hardfloor or pierre |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
My god... I know what you mean about hearing your body when on acid. Its really really bizarre. Sometimes it really really scared me! Acid does sound similar to those noises! haha... I never thought of that. Scientifically makes sense why acid can be a form of music... it makes noises that we can relate to due to metabolism. Or am I just thinking too much? ....Mmmm nachos. (holy guacamole). |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
(correct me if im wrong anyone) theres some rather crude things (resonance filter) inside the 303 that makes those gnarly sounds. if you hit the notes quick after eachother you get the trademark high pitched gliding sounds, like the music in to me it definately sounds high pitched. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I love that track! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
haha yeah me too. found the ceephax 2cd thing this week, i love getting back into old forgotten stuff. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i mean i forgot about that release completely. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
sounds good when you're on acid |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
The name "Acid" has nothing to do with drugs (as you say LSD isn't prevalent in acid-music). Originally, it came from "to burn" people. Namely, using uncleared samples. The term came to be associated with the 303 sound, despite it actually relating to samples. However, hardly anyone knows this and you see all manner of cock and bull theories, even in music publicaitons... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Recommend me some ceephax. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
exidy tours for more sophisticated drilly stuff, 'ceephax acid' 2cd for old style acid |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ceri jc what do you say about that quote from http://www.jahsonic.com/AcidHouse.html ??? either way, the term seems to have more to do w/ burn than drugs, at least initially. genesis p.oridge was early on and you can't say HE wasn't into drugs :) regardless of origins 303 IS acid sound, the GLIDE is key to authentic programing, but it's an analog machine so the hardware itself is special as well ... tho some software like creakbox (free vst) and audiorealism bassline (expensive vst) have now come close to tricking people, especially those without ACID-TRAINED ears |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Acid = Techno with a 303 bassline. End of story. I can't believe some of the other stuff I am seeing. :s |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
so what makes yours official? how do you know it is the most correct and absolute? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's just the squeeky thing |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
never mind |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i remember that time when that guy did that thing on his computer.... that was good times. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that thing that made us talk to each other on the computer??? now the question is what drum machine is more acid than any other??? and maybe for original acid u needed "Burner" samples, but all the acid HOUSE i hear has guys sort of sexy whispering things like "this is acid" on repeate with some other mumbling . . . |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
prepare for an onslaught of analord inspired tracks |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I believe it's from How To DJ: Properly by Broughton & Brewster (I'll check tonight though, there was something else I wanted to look up in it). I think the definitive guide to DJing, written by 2 hugely experienced club DJs, who were there when acid house took off and whose knowledge about absolutely everything DJ/club related is almost 100% spot on (read the book), makes it more "official" in my eyes than any other description I've heard. I don't contest that it now means the 303 sound Kado describes. My point relates to the origins of the term. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
acieeed! i was in manchester from 86-91, we called it techno, then mushroom, then rave acid then acid house then just plain Acid - because of the d-rugs . I heard the first acid in the hacienda in late 86 that's 19 years ago to you youngsters - *creak creak |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
actually - 87 |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
You were in the Hacienda when you were 14?! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Okay, 15 :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
no, i was born in 1967, i always put fake birthdates when i register for things :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Embarresed about your age, eh? ;0) I'd of loved to have been old enough to go out when it all started off. Late 80s and early 90s I used to read comics in my elder borther's room listening to tapes of techno and acid. There was quite a healthy rave scene in the disused docks warehouses in my home town (that he used to go to), but again, I was too young. I then stopped listening to electronic music for about 8 years, before re-discovering it. Quite nice to hear Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco and LFO - LFO years later and still like 'em. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
my birthdate for watmm is 1367 or something! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
wow, you went to the hacienda ? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i was at art college in manchester at that time and us poor students couldn't afford acid or ecstasy so we had to make do with magic mushrooms + they had a student acid house night on wednesdays (called hot night) that was cheaper than the friday/staurday shindigs |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
or |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
:'( fucking mailman didnt deliver my thinger yet :( |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you're in the netherlands, expect it tomorrow or the next day |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Acid on sea! tuh tat tuh tattatatattatatatah tuh |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that photo of hot night: everyone looks so 80s in it! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
