Acid, and What Britain Did With It

Phuture's "Acid Tracks" turned a broken bassline into a genre, and Britain caught it harder than Chicago did. The Second Summer of Love put tens of thousands of people in fields; the Haçienda went from empty room to the centre of Manchester; the tabloids and then Parliament went after it, and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 wrote "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats" into British law. A government defined a drum pattern in a statute. This facet is that collision.

Part of House Music

83 moments in this segment.

  1. - The Making of the Hacienda, Riverside, 1983. A BBC Riverside report filmed at the Hacienda in 1983, a year after Factory Records opened it on Whitworth Street West, describing it as a club for the future that intends to stay. This is the venue before house music reached it, which is exactly why it is worth holding. The club would close in June 1997 and be demolished in 2002.
  2. - Phuture - Acid Tracks (full 12-inch). The complete Trax 12-inch, all three sides, that invented acid house from a secondhand TB-303 nobody wanted. Ron Hardy broke it at the Muzic Box, where it emptied the floor on the first play and filled it by the fourth.
  3. - Phuture - Acid Tracks (original 12-inch). The full twelve-minute twelve-inch, the record that turned a discontinued Roland bass machine into a genre. DJ Pierre, Spanky and Herb J built it from a secondhand TB-303 they did not know how to use properly; Ron Hardy broke it at the Muzic Box, where the floor emptied on the first play and went off on the fourth, around four in the morning. The bootleg tapes the crowd made, "Ron Hardy's Acid Track", are where the title came from.
  4. - World in Action: A Trip Round Acid House. Granada/ITV's current-affairs strand turns on acid house at the moment it broke out of the clubs, filming the crowds and the smiley iconography while the commentary treats the whole thing as a public menace. It is the earliest sustained British television treatment of the scene and the template every later tabloid panic followed.
  5. - BBC news report on acid house, 1988. A short 1988 BBC news item on the acid house scene, delivered in the alarmed register that defined that year's coverage. Period broadcast material of exactly the kind the archive is thin on.
  6. - BBC news on Britain's illegal warehouse parties, 1988. A short 1988 BBC news item on the unlicensed warehouse parties run by Sunrise, Biology, Energy, Genesis and Weekend World, in the alarmed register that defined that year's coverage. Broadcast material from 1988 itself, rather than a later retrospective, is what this part of the archive is thinnest in.
  7. - RIP at Clink Street, London, 1988. Archive film of a night at RIP in the Clink Street vaults in Southwark: strobes, oil-wheel projections and a dancing crowd, shot inside the club rather than reconstructed later. RIP was the hardest and least commercial of the 1988 London acid house nights, and moving-image footage from inside any of them is scarce.
  8. - Danny Rampling at Shoom, Southwark, July 1988. A fourteen-minute recording from Shoom at the Fitness Centre on Southwark Street, with Danny Rampling playing and Mr C on the microphone. Shoom, run by Danny and Jenni Rampling, is where the Second Summer of Love actually happened in a room rather than in retrospect, the smiley face was taken up from a flyer for its third party. Recordings from inside these nights are extremely rare.
  9. - Shoom, Boy's Own and the 1988 London acid house scene on camcorder. Home-video footage from inside the London acid house nights of 1988 and 1989, Shoom, Boy's Own, all-dayers, with Danny and Jenni Rampling, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Pete Heller among the people on camera. Unpolished and unedited, which is its value: this is what the rooms looked like before the scene was narrated back to itself.
  10. - Clink Street 1988: inside the RIP acid house nights, part 1. Camcorder footage from Clink Street Studios in Southwark, home of RIP, the hardest and darkest of the London acid house nights that ran through 1988. It shows the room, the crowd and the smoke rather than the DJ, which is what makes it useful: this is what the Second Summer of Love actually looked like from the floor. Very little Clink Street video survives.
  11. - Acid house TV report: Shoom, Spectrum, The Trip and Clink Street, 1988. A contemporary television report filmed inside the first London acid house nights - Shoom, Spectrum, The Trip and the Clink Street parties - in the year the sound crossed from Chicago via Ibiza into the capital. It catches the crowds, the smiley iconography and the alarmed press framing at the moment both were forming.
  12. - Clink Street 1988: inside the RIP acid house nights, part 3. A second segment of the same 1988 VHS record of RIP at Clink Street Studios, covering a different stretch of the night. Kept alongside part 1 because they are different footage rather than duplicate uploads, and because contemporaneous video of this club barely exists.
  13. - A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray. Gerald Simpson's Manchester record was the first British acid house track to become a genuine hit: a 303 line, a Roland drum machine and a chopped vocal sample that became one of the most recognisable hooks in British dance music. Released on Rham! in 1988, it proved the Chicago sound could be made in England without imitating it.
  14. - A Guy Called Gerald live at Victoria Baths, Manchester, 1988. Gerald performing Voodoo Ray at the 'Wet' party held in the drained pools of Victoria Baths in November 1988, filmed for Manchester's Other Side of Midnight. Rare live footage of a British acid house record being played by its maker in the year it came out.
  15. - The Other Side of Midnight: Victoria Baths, Manchester, 1988. Tony Wilson's late-night Granada show filmed at Victoria Baths in Manchester on 6 November 1988, with A Guy Called Gerald performing live alongside Graham Massey and DJ sets from Jon Dasilva and Graeme Park. It is broadcast footage of the Manchester scene at the exact moment acid house took the Hacienda, made by the man who ran the club. Almost nothing else from that year was filmed by television with this access.
  16. - Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the Hacienda, 26 February 1989. Nearly three hours of Graeme Park and Mike Pickering playing the Hacienda on a documented night in February 1989, with the full tracklist preserved: Inner City, Royal House, Raven Maize, Gino Latino. Pickering had run the Nude night since 1986 and co-launched the Hot acid house night in July 1988. A dated recording of a specific night is the most valuable kind of object this archive can hold.
  17. - TV news report on rave parties, October 1989. A contemporaneous television news report on the 1989 rave parties, filmed while they were still happening rather than remembered afterwards. Short, but it is primary broadcast evidence of the year the orbital scene peaked.
  18. - UK Rave Footage, Late 1980s. Stock-library archive film of a British rave in the late 1980s: the crowd, the lights, the dancing, shot at the time rather than reconstructed. Footage of this period is scarce and mostly amateur, which makes a catalogued library reel unusually valuable. It shows the Second Summer of Love as it actually looked from the floor.
  19. - Late 1989 news report on raves and the police operation. A news item from the end of 1989 covering both the parties and the police effort to stop them, the period when the Pay Party Unit was formed under Ken Tappenden. It documents the enforcement side that led directly to the 1990 Bright bill.
  20. - 808 State - Pacific on Top of the Pops, 1989. 808 State miming their saxophone-and-909 instrumental on prime-time BBC television, the moment Manchester's machine music reached the British mainstream. The band took their name from the Roland TR-808 and this was the record that made the reference legible to a national audience.
  21. - Rave '89 - illegal acid house parties across Britain. Ninety minutes of period camcorder footage from illegal acid house raves in 1989: the fields, the convoys, the rigs and the crowds, with no narration between the viewer and the event. Raw material of the sort that almost never survives from these parties.
  22. - 808 State - Pacific State (12-inch version). Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson's crossover record: a soft, saxophone-led piece of Manchester house that came out of the same acid house circuit as Voodoo Ray and went top ten. The full 12-inch, where the track has room to unfold rather than being cut to a single edit.
  23. - Thames Television report on the acid house rave scene. A London regional news report filmed inside the rave scene rather than about it from a studio, taking in the pirate station Sunrise FM, promoters and DJs including Ellis Dee. It is contemporaneous reporting from the year the parties moved out to the warehouses and the M25.
  24. - Orbital - Chime (full 12-inch). The Hartnoll brothers recorded Chime on a cassette deck for next to nothing and pressed it in a tiny run; it became the record that carried British rave from the warehouse into the charts. The full 12-inch, which builds far past the length of the single edit.
  25. - BBC South Today on acid house party raids. Regional BBC news from the south of England covering police breaking up acid house parties, filmed while the operations were still going on. It documents the enforcement side of the second summer of love away from London, in the autumn when the police response hardened into a co-ordinated campaign.
  26. - Sunrise and Back to the Future warehouse raves, 1988-89. Camcorder footage from inside the orbital warehouse parties thrown around the M25 by Sunrise and Back to the Future, two of the promoters the Pay Party Unit was set up to stop. Unpolished, first-person and shot by someone who was there, which is most of its value.
  27. - Local news report on the Phantasy rave, Reigate, 1989. Newsroom South East covering one of the Surrey orbital parties, in the register British regional television used for acid house that year: helicopters, road blocks and shocked residents. A useful counterweight to the raves' own footage of themselves.
  28. - M25 orbital acid house parties, 1989. Footage from the Rave89 VHS compiling illegal warehouse and outdoor parties across the M25 belt in the year the scene went national. Shows the scale these events reached before the Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Act made them ruinously expensive to throw.
  29. - Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the Hacienda's Nude night, August 1989. Nearly three hours of Park and Pickering playing Nude, the Friday night that turned Factory's failing post-punk venue into the club where British house was heard properly. The tracklist is a snapshot of what a Manchester floor was being fed in the summer of 1989, from Inner City to Italian piano records.
  30. - A Guy Called Gerald meets Derrick May, Manchester 1990. Granada Television footage from the 'Madchester' special in which A Guy Called Gerald, who made 'Voodoo Ray', meets Derrick May. It catches the moment Manchester's acid-house scene and Detroit were talking to each other directly, on regional British TV.
  31. - Inside the Hacienda, Manchester, 1990. A minute of footage shot inside the Hacienda in 1990, taken from the television documentary The Sound of the North. Short, but it is the club at its peak filmed at the time, not a reconstruction. Very little film of the Hacienda dancefloor survives in circulation.
  32. - Madchester: The Sound of the North. The 1990 television documentary on Manchester at the moment guitar bands and house records collided, featuring the Hacienda, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Derrick May and Tony Wilson. It was made while the scene was happening rather than in retrospect, which is why the interviews are unguarded. It is also the source of most of the circulating Hacienda footage from that year.
  33. - Granada Reports on the Lancashire acid house parties, March 1990. Regional news covering the Blackburn warehouse parties, the northern equivalent of the M25 orbital scene, at the point when police and councils were being pushed to shut them down. Broadcast weeks after the Freedom to Party rally and months before the Bright bill became law.
  34. - Fantazia: Takes You Into Summertime, 15 May 1992. The official video release of a Fantazia event, filmed the week before Castlemorton, when the licensed rave promoters were selling to tens of thousands what the free parties were giving away. Shows the production, the crowd and the scale the legal end of the scene had reached by 1992.
  35. - Ministry of Sound: Berkmann, Owens and Heard interviewed. Early-1990s footage from Ministry of Sound, with founder Justin Berkmann alongside Robert Owens and Larry Heard. Berkmann built the club explicitly on the Paradise Garage model, sound system first, no bar in the main room, and having the two Chicago artists in the same clip shows how directly London imported both the New York room and the Chicago records.
  36. - Burtle rave - local news report. Regional television news covering the free parties at Burtle in Somerset, one of the West Country flashpoints between sound systems and police in the years running up to the Criminal Justice Act. Local reporting of this kind is where the rave crackdown is actually documented.
  37. - News report on the Castlemorton Common free festival, 1992. Broadcast coverage of the week-long free festival on Castlemorton Common in the Malvern Hills, where between twenty and forty thousand people gathered around Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, Circus Warp and DiY. The media panic this report belongs to swelled the crowd and led directly to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
  38. - Spiral Tribe and the travellers on the road to Castlemorton. Spiral Tribe meeting the new age traveller convoy in the weeks before Castlemorton, the alliance between free party sound systems and travelling communities that produced the largest illegal gathering in British history. Filmed by people inside it rather than by a news crew.
  39. - DiY sound system: Digs and Woosh at Castlemorton, 1992. Ninety minutes of Nottingham's DiY playing deep American house to a free festival of tens of thousands - a reminder that Castlemorton was not only techno and breakbeat. DiY ran their rig for free on principle, and this recording is how their set that week survives.
  40. - Spiral Tribe at Castlemorton Common, May 1992. Spiral Tribe's rig running on the common, the sound system whose thirteen arrested members were eventually acquitted after a long and expensive trial. Short, but it is the event itself rather than a report about it.
  41. - Fantazia: The First Taste, 1992. Fantazia's debut event, released on video as The First Taste - the beginning of the promoter that did more than any other to turn the illegal warehouse party into a ticketed arena business. Useful as a record of what the commercial rave looked like at the moment it separated from the free scene.
  42. - Commons Debate on the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, 12 April 1994. House of Commons footage from the 12 April 1994 debate on the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, the Act that criminalised gatherings around repetitive beats. It received Royal Assent on 3 November 1994, and Sections 63 to 67 gave police powers to shut down raves outright. The primary record of a dance-music scene being legislated against on the floor of Parliament.
  43. - Exist to Resist - free party and rave footage. An extended run of footage shot inside the 1990s free-party scene by the Sunnyside sound system, made in explicit opposition to the outlawing of that way of life. It shows the parties, the rigs and the confrontations from the inside rather than from a news helicopter.
  44. - Equinox: Rave New World (1994). An hour-long Channel 4 Equinox episode from 1994 turning the strand's science-documentary format on rave: the music, the drugs and the crowds, broadcast in the same year the Criminal Justice Act was passed. It is establishment television trying to explain a culture it was simultaneously helping to criminalise.
  45. - Anti-Criminal Justice Bill Rally, Summer 1994. Camcorder footage from a summer 1994 rally against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, the legislation that defined outlawed music as a succession of repetitive beats. The protests that year drew tens of thousands, and the largest, on 24 July, filled central London. Filmed by a participant rather than a broadcaster.
  46. - Defying the Criminal Justice Bill, November 1994. Footage from the last stretch of resistance to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, filmed around the November 1994 Royal Assent and drawing in the No M11 Link Road campaigners who had been fighting evictions in east London. It records the alliance the Bill created between ravers, travellers and road protesters, the constituencies it criminalised together.
  47. - Orbital - Chime live at Glastonbury, 1994. Orbital's Glastonbury set is the performance usually credited with proving that dance music could headline a festival stage built for guitar bands. Chime played live to a field, filmed by the BBC, in the year the Criminal Justice Act was passing through Parliament.
  48. - Criminal Justice Bill Protest, London, 24 July 1994. Seventeen minutes of footage from the 24 July 1994 demonstration in London against the Criminal Justice Bill, where crowds estimated at twenty to fifty thousand turned a protest into a party. It is the largest of the three 1994 mobilisations against the Act and the one where the tactic and the target were the same thing. Filmed on the day by someone in the crowd.
  49. - Anti-Criminal Justice Bill demonstration, Norwich, 1994. Camcorder footage of a September 1994 march against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, weeks before it received Royal Assent on 3 November. The Act's Section 63 defined the target in law as "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats", a British government legislating against a rhythm. Ground-level footage of the people it was aimed at.
  50. - A Piece of the Action: a 1995 UK rave documentary. A short British documentary on the rave scene made in 1995, in the aftermath of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, when the free party culture that grew out of acid house was being legislated out of existence. Useful as period reporting on how the scene described itself once the moral panic had turned into law.
  51. - Zion Train - Resist the Criminal Justice Act. A dub record released as a direct protest against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, from the sound-system culture that shared the free-party circuit with acid house. It sits in the archive as one of the documented musical responses to Section 63, alongside Autechre's Anti EP. Dub rather than house, kept for what it records about the moment the Act landed.
  52. - Phuture 303 - Acid Soul. A late-nineties Phuture 303 record showing the acid sound a decade after Acid Tracks, deeper and more musical but still built on the same box. Evidence that the 303 lineage kept developing rather than ending with the Second Summer of Love.
  53. - BBC News: The Hacienda Auction, November 2000. A BBC News report from November 2000 on the auction of the Hacienda's fittings, with Peter Hook and Tony Wilson picking over what was left. Three years after the final night in June 1997, the club was sold off piece by piece; the building itself came down in 2002. Broadcast news coverage of the end of the club, transferred from VHS.
  54. - The Chemical Generation - Boy George on UK acid house. A fifty-minute Channel 4 documentary presented by Boy George tracing UK acid house, rave and club culture from the mid-1980s through its collision with the law, with participants speaking on camera. It is one of the few full-length broadcast histories of the British end of the story.
  55. - 1989: Summer of Rave (BBC Two documentary). A BBC Two history of the year acid house spread from a handful of London clubs to the whole country, built from news archive and interviews with the people who threw and policed the parties. It also covers Madchester, and is one of the more careful British broadcast accounts of the period.
  56. - BBC Inside Out: acid house at Moseley Road Baths. A BBC regional documentary revisiting acid house through a Birmingham venue, cutting present-day interviews against 1988 news footage of the moral panic. Useful because it preserves the original broadcast propaganda inside a later retrospective frame.
  57. - Dance Britannia - the acid house episode. An episode of the BBC's Britannia strand covering acid house, built from period footage and interviews with the DJs and promoters who ran the clubs and the orbital parties. Broadcast history rather than fan compilation.
  58. - Factory Records: The Label Behind the Hacienda. A BBC Four documentary on Factory Records, the Manchester label that financed the Hacienda and absorbed its losses for fifteen years. It matters here because the club that carried house music into Britain existed only as a record label's expensive side project. Runs from the label's punk-era beginnings through to the Madchester years.
  59. - Flats on the Hacienda site. The apartment block standing where the Hacienda stood, photographed in 2007. The club opened on 21 May 1982, financed by Factory Records, New Order and Tony Wilson; it was among the first British clubs to play house, ran the Hot acid house night from July 1988, closed on 28 June 1997 and was demolished in 2002. It never made money.
  60. - Flowers for Tony Wilson. People laying flowers outside the former Hacienda on 13 August 2007, days after the death of Tony Wilson, who with Factory Records and New Order had put up the money for the club. The building had been gone for five years; the mourners came to the address anyway.
  61. - BBC Look East: policing Norfolk's illegal raves. A regional BBC news report on the police 'rave intelligence' operation used to shut unlicensed parties down, with officers justifying the budget on camera. It shows the enforcement machinery built by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 still running two decades after acid house. The free-party scene it targets is the direct descendant of the orbital M25 raves of 1988-89.
  62. - Oliver Wilson on his father's club, the Haçienda. Tony Wilson's son looks back on FAC 51, the club Factory Records and New Order financed, which opened on 21 May 1982, launched its Hot acid house night in July 1988 and closed for good on 28 June 1997. Peter Hook's accounting is the punchline the family lived with: the club that defined a decade of British music lost up to eighteen million pounds and never made money.
  63. - How Clubbing Changed the World. Idris Elba's television history of British club culture, from the acid house raves and the Hacienda through the superclubs to the export of the UK DJ. It connects the Chicago and Ibiza records to what Britain built on top of them.
  64. - Danny Rampling at the Shoom 25th anniversary party. Rampling playing to a strobe-lit room at the 25th-anniversary Shoom night, dropping 'R U Happy'. A short, amateur record of the club's afterlife, and one of the few pieces of moving image tied to the Shoom name at all.
  65. - Nightmares On Wax - Boiler Room London. George Evelyn DJing house, disco and soul in the London Boiler Room studio. His records for Warp came out of the Yorkshire bleep scene that formed directly downstream of Chicago acid house reaching northern England, and his selections as a DJ trace that inheritance rather than his own downtempo albums.
  66. - Rave culture twenty years after the Criminal Justice Act. A short documentary piece marking two decades since the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, filmed among a festival crowd and asking what the law actually did to the culture it was written against. It puts the Act's Section 63 'repetitive beats' clause in front of the people living with its consequences.
  67. - Do You Own the Dancefloor? Documentary Trailer. Trailer for the documentary about the people who bought pieces of the Hacienda at the 2000 auction and what they did with them, featuring Mike Pickering. The film premiered as a charity screening on 15 August 2015. A record of how the club's physical remains were dispersed into private hands.
  68. - Miss Nicky Trax. The French DJ and producer Miss Nicky Trax, photographed in 2016. Commons files her under acid house; the record here is thin beyond that.
  69. - Earl Spanky Smith of Phuture with his TB-303. Dutch broadcaster NTR films the Phuture founder holding the machine he used to make Acid Tracks, released after his death as part of the Planet Elektro documentary. One of very few filmed records of Smith speaking about his own instrument.
  70. - The Second Summers of Love, 1988 and 1989. A segment from BBC Four's The People's History of Pop covering the acid house summers of 1988 and 1989 in Britain. It carries participant testimony and period footage from the orbital raves and the club nights that followed the Ibiza trip. Broadcast 25 November 2016.
  71. - Danny Rampling on 30 years of Shoom (BBC Newsnight). Rampling looks back on Shoom, the small, sweaty Southwark club he and Jenni Rampling opened in November 1987 that turned the Ibiza trip into a London scene. A national news strand treating acid house as history rather than menace, three decades after the tabloids ran it as a threat.
  72. - Nightmares On Wax - Boiler Room Sheffield. George Evelyn closes Boiler Room's return to Sheffield, the city where Warp Records started in a record shop in 1989. Sheffield's bleep records were northern England's answer to Chicago acid, and putting a Warp artist in that room is the closest this set list gets to naming its own lineage.
  73. - Thirty Years On: The Summer of Love, 1988. A short retrospective film marking three decades since house music spread across Britain in the summer of 1988. It sets the club nights, the warehouse parties and the tabloid reaction against each other in compressed form. Published in 2018 as an anniversary piece, so the events it describes are thirty years older than the film.
  74. - Peggy Gou - old-school acid set, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille. Peggy Gou playing a deliberately old-school acid house set inside a Lille fine-art museum for Cercle. The programme is 303-driven material from house's Chicago and UK acid periods, replayed for a streaming audience in a room built for paintings.
  75. - Green Velvet - 25 Years of Bugged Out!, Printworks London. A 90-minute set for Bugged Out!'s 25th-anniversary party at Printworks. Bugged Out! began in 1994 at Sankeys Soap in Manchester, in the club culture the acid house raves left behind, and this booking is that lineage still running a quarter of a century later.
  76. - Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984–1992. Jeremy Deller's film, built from a lecture delivered to a class of A-level politics students, arguing that acid house in Britain was not a spontaneous import but a response to the miners' strike, deindustrialisation and Thatcherism. It is the strongest single argument in the archive that the Second Summer of Love was political before it was hedonistic, and it keeps the Chicago and New York origins of the music in view rather than starting the story in Ibiza.
  77. - Haçienda In Conversation: Graeme Park and David Morales. Graeme Park and David Morales trade stories from the Haçienda and New York in the first of the club's live interview series. Two DJs who worked opposite ends of the same transatlantic circuit through the late 1980s and 1990s.
  78. - DJ Pierre and DJ Traxman on the 303, Acid Trax and Ron Hardy. Pierre, who found the 303 pattern that became acid house, talks with DJ Traxman about the machine, Trax Records and Ron Hardy's Muzic Box. First-hand testimony from the man who made the record, including the label's treatment of its artists.
  79. - The Hacienda: Television Documentary with Noel Gallagher. A feature-length television documentary on the Hacienda, with Noel Gallagher among the interviewees and performance footage running from Joy Division and New Order through to Black Box. It covers the club Factory Records opened in 1982 and the point in 1986-88 when it became one of the first British clubs to play house. The Hacienda never made money in its fifteen years, and this is the long-form account of why.
  80. - DiY and the 72-hour rave that changed the law. A documentary on DiY Sound System, the Nottingham crew who put house music at the centre of the British free party scene and were on the common at Castlemorton. It traces the line from that week to Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which defined the music it banned as 'repetitive beats'.
  81. - Free Party: A Folk History - trailer. The trailer for a feature documentary on Castlemorton Common, the 20,000-40,000-strong illegal festival of 22-29 May 1992 that provoked the Criminal Justice Act. It carries period footage of the largest free party Britain ever saw, an event the archive otherwise has almost nothing on.
  82. - DJ Pierre - Boiler Room: Chicago. DJ Pierre of Phuture, one of the three teenagers who found the acid sound in a second-hand TB-303, playing in Chicago nearly forty years later. Boiler Room's Chicago takeover deliberately paired him with new-school local artists, which makes this a rare filmed link between the men who made 'Acid Tracks' and the city's current DJs.
  83. - How acid house raves took over Britain in the late 1980s. ITN cuts its own late-1980s news archive into a single account of how acid house moved from small clubs to warehouses, aircraft hangars and the M25 orbital parties. The reporters' contemporaneous framing survives intact, which is the value of it.
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