By now we’re all quite sick of the “Summer of Love Redux” media clusterfuck, but the Audio.Out blog just spent a week reminiscing about a different “Summer of Love,”, celebrating two decades of acid house with a few dozen MP3s of turn-of-the-’90s dance music. (Phuture’s “Acid Trax,” the grumpy granddad of them all, dropped back in 1987 when I was wearing out my Weird Al cassingles.) Tracks range from impossibly rough bangers by Steve Poindexter to novelty crossover tunes (a ska-meets-acid house record? Eek.) to more recent takes on the squelchy sound from Pink Skull and Jackson. And as a bonus, here’s a terribly evocative British media scare story from 1988 about the dangers of raving. Do you know where your children are?
Acid House Week [Audio.Out]
not particularly. i’ll pass
This is pretty good, and contains some of the fantastic Sun and Daily Mail headlines from the day:
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“Ecstasy Airport”. Briliant.
This is also great, too. Broad daylight, which makes it kind of distinctive. Holy shit, they really pumped the smoke machines back then:
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Cor, it’s all squidgy!