All-night raves known as Acid House parties were spreading across the UK in 1989, ‘the Second Summer of Love.’ But it took a letter from an MP’s irritated uncle in the shires to get Mrs. Thatcher ...

The acid house scene of the late 80s and early 90s has become inextricably linked with ecstasy in the public consciousness. The fact that it’s got “acid” in its name almost seems like an accidental ...

Charanjit Singh, a Bollywood composer and session musician that became an accidental pioneer in acid house music, passed away Sunday at his home in Mumbai, India. He was 75. The Wire reports that ...

Today’s young millennials weaned on a lifetime of electronic music can hardly imagine how futuristic and positively alien acid house first sounded to listeners in the ’80s. “Spanky said immediately, ...

In the last couple of months the ‘acid house’ scene has eclipsed even "lager louts" and football hooligans as the media’s favourite Threat to Civilisation As We Know It. From all the talk about ...

Matt Stokes, a 44-year-old artist based in Newcastle, has spent a long time studying subcultures. He’s investigated northern soul, punk, acid house, black metal and even bell-ringing societies – that ...

Initially, the film version of The Acid House was meant to consist of three separate tales, each adapted by a different director, from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's anthology of the same name.

*In the second installment of Living Rooms: Global Punk & DIY Venues, a series that looks at DIY clubs around the world, writer Gabriela Jauregui and photographers Ramiro Chaves, Florencia Diaz, and ...

Play House is an integrated analog installation that produces original music using a complex series of interconnected systems made from Lego Technic pieces. Devised by programmer/artist Alex Allmont, ...