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Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by kostadin »

stinos wrote: post #109

So we was just sitting there for thirty, forty minutes, just turning knobs, going “I like that, I like that! There is indeed something about turning an actual hardware knob (even if it's only to midi-control a software instrument) which can do that. Much less for dragging buttons with a mouse, it seems. The day I got my first synth I spent an entire evening and night like that. Get some sound going, play some notes u…

Indeed, it hardly gets better then the feel of turning hardware knobs in machine interfaces. Some distant resemblance to [0] perhaps?

[0] http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by greenrobot »

gpderetta wrote: post #110
new_here wrote: post #44

I really love how an obscure topic like Acid House can trend on HN and then a whole bunch of people who've been fans of that topic for years just emerge in the comments out of nowhere. It's really testament to the diversity and quality of the HN community.

And from the title I though this was about NoSQL...

Yeah, me too.

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by lostgame »

stef25 wrote: post #93
lostgame wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried ReBirth for iPad? It’s a phenomenal and faithful recreation.

I have not, didn't they get removed from the app store due to a complaint from Roland?

If it did, that'd be a damn shame. It was an incredibly well-written and faithfully-ported version of the original.

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by kostadin »

tomduncalf wrote: post #76
bhrgunatha wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations for modern artists?

There's a series of EPs called Acid Test (available on Spotify) which are great. Donato Dozzy and Tin Man's collaboration is particularly good. Tin Man is another artist worth checking out. For an alternative (more downtempo/ambient) take on how the 303 can be used (among a few other machines), check out TM404's self-titled album, and Risveglio by Alessandro Cortini

Along these lines, everything on The Bunker NY, Interdimensional Transmissions and sublabel Eye Teeth is great, these people are really pushing and evolving the sound. https://ithq.bandcamp.com/ https://eye-teeth.bandcamp.com/

I also like Luke Vibert's take on acid, more rooted in UK hardcore https://www.discogs.com/artist/253-Luke-Vibert

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by bascule »

coldtea wrote: post #54
shellac wrote: post #38

Although weirdly preempted by an Indian record 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4RYBpwV0A This is what "the TB-303 bass synthesizer uses [the artist] to reproduce itself" means - you really couldn't use these tools without producing this music.

> you really couldn't use these tools without producing this music Well, you can use the TB-303 very consevatively, for it's original intended purpose, and it will just sound like a badly immitated regular bass guitar.

That's more or less how it was used in one of the first popular tracks to use the 303, Orange Juice - Rip it Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE

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Post by crag »

I remember music like this being played at the [gay] circuit parties in NYC (and beyond) in the early 90's. Sure the DJ's played favorites, but at like 3AM, these type of tunes played. Trance, I think it was called. Been a while.

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by yumraj »

shellac wrote: post #38

Although weirdly preempted by an Indian record 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4RYBpwV0A This is what "the TB-303 bass synthesizer uses [the artist] to reproduce itself" means - you really couldn't use these tools without producing this music.

Very cool. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charanjit_Singh_(musician)

Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, an album of original electronic disco compositions Singh recorded in 1982, was a commercial failure at the time of its original release, but its re-discovery in 2002 and re-issue in early 2010 garnered attention due to its pioneering of a new style of dance music later known as the acid house genre of the late 1980s. Since then, certain commentators in the music press have recast Singh as an originator of acid house music. He also used the same drum machine and synthesizers for his experimental electronic calypso record, Experiments in Calypso.

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Post by llamataboot »

otisfunkmeyer wrote: post #52
llamataboot wrote: post #9

As a Midwestern raver in the 90s that was regularly in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis, I love this little history and philosophy piece. I can't quite explain the feeling of the midwestern rave scene in the 90s, but it was very racially diverse, utopian, punk, looking somehow back and forward in time at the same time enmeshed in psychedelics and psychedelia but somehow also part of both machines and cultures far ol…

yah I agree those were definitely good times ;)

I was at some raves with YOU :)

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by llamataboot »

stef25 wrote: post #101
llamataboot wrote: post #9

As a Midwestern raver in the 90s that was regularly in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis, I love this little history and philosophy piece. I can't quite explain the feeling of the midwestern rave scene in the 90s, but it was very racially diverse, utopian, punk, looking somehow back and forward in time at the same time enmeshed in psychedelics and psychedelia but somehow also part of both machines and cultures far ol…

Even Furthur?

Yes, and it's back!

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by bascule »

new_here wrote: post #51
n4r9 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you call that house where you're from? I think most people in the UK would pretty quickly say the Göttsching and LCD Soundsystem tracks are techno, and the Phuture track in the article is straight up acid techno. House tends to be lighter, slightly slower and more euphoric, e.g. this I would call acid house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhxpMnfHB0 I'm intrigued because I knew an American at uni who insisted…

House originally started out with a faster tempo around 130 BMP which then slowed to 120 BPM over time. The acid sound has more to do with the squelched bass sound produced by the synths being discussed here. So your sample is acid house, just at a slower tempo which wasn't as common with the earlier samples.

Most early house songs were ~120BPM. This includes:

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love, Jesse Saunders - On and On, Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It, Marshal Jefferson - Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)

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