December 2011
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The Acid Grandad's seasonal thought of the day...
….let’s party like its 1989.
Have a great new year!
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Legends
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Other sites/blogs we like #1
First in a series of, hopefully, quite a few. Sites we like that we’ve found when trawling the internet for stuff for this blog (…so you don’t have to).
Dalston Oxfam Shop - Once a week high quality digital recordings of cassette tapes purchased at the Dalston Oxfam Shop in East London.
http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com/2009/10/frankie-knuckles-live-mix-from-wbmx.html
Just because.
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Rave is all the Fave
1991. For fucks sake.
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No frills, no fuss, just flow.
(from the Acid Grandad’s archives)
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Black and Gold
From the Acid Grandad’s Archives - barely legible, faux marble flyer of the day #1. Amnesia House, Coventry.
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Mmmm, Pizza.
From the Acid Grandad’s archive.
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The Rave is On
From the Acid Grandad’s archive. Not strictly house music related, but most of our mates went, so it kind of counts.
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Please don't take drugs and that.
From the Acid Grandad’s archives - a warning notice about the perils of drug taking from the shortly lived ‘Hacienda-on-sea’, Shaboo in Blackpool, summer 1990.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSgNkni38g0
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What is it Harold?
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From the Acid Grandad's Archives.
Original Shelleys (Stoke) flyers.
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DJ Pierre - This man invented acid house
http://wearenotarockband.com/2011/12/14/this-man-invented-acid-house/
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Panic on the streets of London.
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People in progress, Hardcore Uproar.
From the Acid Grandad’s archives.
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the godfather of house from chicago
From the Acid Grandad’s archive.
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Jack says....
A very merry Christmas to all of our followers and readers!
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Progressive.
From the Acid Grandad’s archives. Tape cover from a free cassette given away with DJ Mag in ‘92. If we can find the tape, we’ll rip it an throw it up on here as well.
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Happy Monday.
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Dear Santa....
….please could you bring us No.7 - the Omex “Disco 100” stereo home disco unit?
More retro stuff from the 1976 Argos catalogue, here:
http://www.retronaut.co/2010/12/argos-catalogue-1976/
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Twenty Years of Acid House →
classof808:
Mr C interviews Kid Batchelor, Frankie Foncett and Rob Acteson
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Top Tens #1
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Click on the link for the bigger version:
http://imageshack.us/f/192/chicagooldschool.jpg/
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Call the cops
From the Acid grandad’s archives. New Musical Express, some time in ‘90.
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Happy Birthday
From the Acid Grandad’s archives. I’m not even going to bother mentioning it.
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In Ten City
From Offbeat magazine - January ‘89.
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H.O.U.S.E.
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http://www.808state.com/sounds/808djs.htm#1990
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Got, got, want, got, got, shite, want, got.
Eastern Bloc Records (Manchester) newsletter. Click on the link below for the big version. Sorry about the scribbles.
http://imageshack.us/f/4/easternblocmed.jpg/
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Strange textile printed tickets of the day #1
From the Acid Grandad’s archives - Printed on Fabric and hand cut with those daft serrated scissors that your mum probably had, these are tickets for Wednesday night at the Hac (Did we mention…etc?) in 1990.
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Legends #15
Alfredo Fiorito.
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Berliric
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Charts
Taken from DJ Magazine (House Special Pullout) April ‘93. The full article by Phil Cheesman is transcribed earlier on this blog.
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Mix of the morning - Derrick May Live @ Music...