Acid techno

Acid techno is the term used to describe a style of techno that developed out of late 1980s Chicago Acid house.^[1] Acid house was essentially house music made with a specific sound, obtained by using very distinctive instruments created mainly by Roland, such as the TB-303 for bass and lead sounds, and the TR-909 and TR-808 for percussion. Acid specifically refers to the use of the Roland TB-303, or any other synthesizer designed to emulate its unique sound.^[2] While modern electronic instruments have memory banks of different sounds or patches, these machines had to be manually set by adjusting control knobs. The acid sound was obtained by either setting these controls to extreme parameters, or manipulating these controls in real-time as the track was being recorded, something record producers would call tweaking.

History

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Example of Acid techno sound

One of the first acid techno records ever recorded is Circuit Breaker: Experiments in Sound, produced by Richie Hawtin on Probe Records. Some examples of other North American acid techno labels would include Drop Bass Network (didn't release anything until 1993, long after acid techno was already popular in Europe), and very early Dance Mania. Acid techno continues to be mainly a fairly underground form of music.

Notable Producers

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• Plastikman^[1]
• Dave Clarke^[1]
• Luke Vibert^[3]
• Ceephax Acid Crew
• Martin Damm
• Mike Ink
• Rob Acid
• Brixton
• Hardfloor
• DJ Darkzone
• Jon the Dentist
• KN
• Henry Cullen (D.A.V.E. The Drummer)
• Ant
• Spiral Tribe
• Emmanuel Top
• Kai Tracid
• Chris Liberator
• Last Step
• Blawan

See also

• Acid breaks

References

External links

• Old School Acid Techno, Some Old School Acid Techno tracks