Acid House
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- mikotondria30
Mm..yeh, sort of kind of nearly. I wouldn't say he invented acid house at all. Anyone who bought a 303 back then (1981) and turned it on and used a drum machine also 'invented' acid house. He wasn't making in the wider context of stripping down disco records and dancing in E to foster a new repetitive aesthetic was he ? Negotiating raga scales is a centuries old technique, not particularly recontexualised by looping a samey off the shelf disco beat to it. Phuture is where it started and to my mind has rarely been equaled in the genre.
It is very much back in vogue and rightly so, I for one never tire of it, and I think we'll see more and more unknown early 80s avant garde tracks crawl out of the woodwork with their embryonic attempts to gain some traction, but it'll always be Phuture.