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  "slug": "acid-house",
  "name": "Acid House",
  "aliases": [
    "acid",
    "acieed",
    "303 music",
    "second summer of love"
  ],
  "description": "One discontinued Roland bass synthesiser, misused. Chicago producers found that twisting a TB-303's filter mid-pattern produced a squelch nothing else made, and Britain built two summers of illegal parties on the sound.",
  "origin": {
    "place": "Chicago and London",
    "year": 1987
  },
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      "genre": "chicago-house",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/chicago-house/",
      "inherited": "The same city, the same producers, one new box. Acid is house with the 303's filter sweep placed where the vocal or the piano would go — a subtraction that turned out to be the most exportable thing Chicago made."
    }
  ],
  "bpm": {
    "min": 118,
    "max": 135
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/acid-house/",
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      "title": "Voodoo Ray",
      "artist": "A Guy Called Gerald",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/a-guy-called-gerald/",
      "year": 1988,
      "label": "Rham!",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Made in a Manchester bedroom on borrowed equipment, with a vocal sample truncated by a sampler that ran out of memory. The most beautiful accident in British dance music.",
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          "name": "The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms",
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      "rank": 2,
      "trackKey": "phuture--washing-machine",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/phuture--washing-machine/",
      "title": "Washing Machine",
      "artist": "Phuture",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/phuture/",
      "year": 1987,
      "label": "Trax",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The B-side to the record that named the genre, and arguably the better one. Twelve minutes of a machine being tortured, released because Ron Hardy kept playing the tape.",
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      "rank": 3,
      "trackKey": "808-state--pacific-state",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/808-state--pacific-state/",
      "title": "Pacific State",
      "artist": "808 State",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/808-state/",
      "year": 1989,
      "label": "ZTT",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A saxophone line and birdsong over an acid bassline, which should not work and does. The record that proved this music could be pretty without becoming polite.",
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      "rank": 4,
      "trackKey": "humanoid--stakker-humanoid",
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      "title": "Stakker Humanoid",
      "artist": "Humanoid",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/humanoid/",
      "year": 1988,
      "label": "Westside",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Brian Dougans making the most aggressive 303 record of the era and taking it into the UK top twenty. Britain's answer arrived louder and faster than the question.",
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      "rank": 5,
      "trackKey": "fast-eddie--acid-thunder",
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      "title": "Acid Thunder",
      "artist": "Fast Eddie",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/fast-eddie/",
      "year": 1988,
      "label": "DJ International",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Chicago answering Britain's enthusiasm with something harder and more functional. A reminder that while London was having a summer of love, the source was still making tools.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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      "rank": 6,
      "trackKey": "d-mob--we-call-it-acieed",
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      "title": "We Call It Acieed",
      "artist": "D Mob",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/d-mob/",
      "year": 1988,
      "label": "ffrr",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The moment the underground became a novelty hit and got itself banned from daytime radio for a chant. Cynical, effective, and genuinely the sound of a scene losing control of its own name.",
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      "rank": 7,
      "trackKey": "joey-beltram--energy-flash",
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      "title": "Energy Flash",
      "artist": "Joey Beltram",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/joey-beltram/",
      "year": 1990,
      "label": "R&S",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A Brooklyn teenager, a Belgian label and a whispered word. The point where acid stops being playful and becomes the harder European techno that swallowed it.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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      "rank": 8,
      "trackKey": "josh-wink--higher-state-of-consciousness",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/josh-wink--higher-state-of-consciousness/",
      "title": "Higher State of Consciousness",
      "artist": "Josh Wink",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/josh-wink/",
      "year": 1995,
      "label": "Strictly Rhythm",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Years after the fashion passed, Wink runs a single 303 line through a filter for six minutes and produces the most physically effective record in the whole tradition.",
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        "youtubeMusic": {
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