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Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

emptyfile wrote: post #35
zamalek wrote: post #11

It's amazing that the iconic dance/trance clap (the clap after 1:15 in Acid Tracks) was forged alongside the 303. This exact sample (or an unbelievably similar one) could be heard throughout the late 90's and still features in many tracks today. It's the Wilhelm Scream of EDM. Acid eventually resulted in liquid trance, which eventually became psytrance. Liquid was a fantastic exploration of the nature of sound, with…

>Acid eventually resulted in liquid trance, which eventually became psytrance. No it didn't, psytrance came from goa trance for which the foundations were laid in the 80's before trance popper was a thing. And what is liquid trance? Never heard of it. But not to make this post just about whining, here's possibly the first trance track ever made, since we're talking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9pH9C7Oe…

Also from the same year as Age of Love: We Came in Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9391UXPO8

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by elboru »

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.

I've always loved that about HN, it doesn't matter how obscure the topic is, there will always be someone with first hand exposure to it, they will always add a plus to the article.

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by sjclemmy »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #65
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…

Göttsching is krautrock - a terrible but accepted name for the pre-techno synthesizer scene that formed in Berlin in the late 60s and became popular in most of Europe (not so much Germany) in the 70s. The biggest names on the scene were Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, Göttsching was in a peripheral band called Ashra Tempel but also played drums for Schulze. The less famous names on the scene - Roedelius, Cluster,…

Just to add to the lineage conversation; Derrick May released a remix of Sueno Latino in 1992. It was based on E2 - E4. Derrick May also played Exit by Tangerine Dream on a BBC radio 6 set a few years ago which he said was a big influence on him.

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Post by bascule »

stef25 wrote: post #39

Ah acid ... the sound of the 303 has been with me ever since I got a copy of ReBirth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBirth_RB-338 from Propellerhead Software back in the 90s. It's a software emulator of 2x TB303, a 909 and an 808 with distortion and delay effects. These instruments were basically the corner stone of dance music in the 80s and 90s and the software was just incredible at the time. Before that I was usi…

Hardfloor are masters of the 303. In addition to Acperience, check out their semi-recent track the Art of Acid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OvWMAzhdOQ

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by bascule »

tjr225 wrote: post #18
malvosenior wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Roland recently reissued many of their classic synths including an updated 303. Now it’s called the TB-03 and it has a “friendly” step programming option in addition to the original crazy style: https://www.roland.com/us/products/tb-03/

The only reason I didn't mention the tb-03 is that it is essentially a digital(software) option, whereas the TT-03 is still analog. I still think it sounds pretty good.

The TB-03 provides a fairly faithful and accurate reproduction of the TB-303's sound.

The TT-303, on the other hand, despite being "circuit identical", can sound downright weird at times (as can Roland's other "analog modeling" 303 reproduction, the TB-3)

Here is a 4 way comparison of the 4 synths I just mentioned complete with waveform visualizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8CAEUU_ics

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by kiliantics »

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...

I figured microdosing

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by oleics »

Investigating some Unique aspects of the TB-303's sound

[...]

Human listeners - and probably a few furry quadrupeds - interpret this output of increasingly high pitched audio signals as sounding like the cry of a living creature becoming increasingly distressed, apparently in response to quickly repeated bursts of stimulus.

from: http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/303-unique.html

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by dmschulman »

bhrgunatha wrote: post #13
tjr225 wrote: post #2

A lot of people, myself included, still love and create acid. The original 303 itself is pretty absurdly (prohibitively) expensive to acquire, and it's a tiny plastic toy and net anywhere from 2000-4000$. A case study in supply and demand - with a little bit of hype, I suppose. There have been a bunch of pretty good software emulations, most notably: https://www.audiorealism.se/abl3.html and even some much cheaper ph…

Any recommendations for modern artists?

No Plastikman mentions yet? Well here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUl43l71rEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvM1Zgj0AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBcxEMHNMs

Paranoid London has been doing great stuff the last few years as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgY7JNOMks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQjXUsgZ5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4O9cLvBgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uh1GZifkT0

And this old Roy of the Ravers track is maybe the best acid track I've heard in a while (thanks Aphex Twin Field Day set):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqj_R4xCvN0

Re: Dropping Acid

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Post by technonerd »

llamataboot wrote: post #118
otisfunkmeyer wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yah I agree those were definitely good times ;)

I was at some raves with YOU :)

Someday ill make it out to even furthur. Don't forget Intellephunk, future classic and system parties and everything in between :) The mpls scene is like the classier version of Detroit.
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