September 2011
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Classic Artwork Spot #2
Classic flyers, logos & membership cards from the annals of club history
Classic Artwork Spot #1
Classic flyers, logos & membership cards from the annals of club history
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You know you're getting old when...
…. things you remember, and were part of, start appearing on a GCSE exam syllabus for the youth of today!
This excerpt is from the edexcel music syllabus for 2001. One of the Acid Grandads was once requested to take his pair of gramaphones into the school he once taught in and give the GCSE music whipper-snappers a good talking to about how it was back in his day.
Area of Study 3
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The Acid Grandads are having a ‘quiet day’ today on account of a heavy weekend.
We tried to tackle a particularly hard Sudoku puzzle at the weekend and its left us mentally drained….
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Why? Is there any other kind of House?
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Acid Grandads on the '1's and '2's
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GERRUUUSSSAAATTTIIITTTT
The Spinmasters of 808 State. Early doors.
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Working on a Building of Love.
It’s hard, at first, to see how a story about a building could also be a story about memory, status, nostalgia, money, madness (in)experience, simple greed (and saintly generosity), youth, life, death and violence. Even music. Not really a story at all then. More like a soap opera. As far as most people are concerned, the story of a building which became a club, an idea and even a...
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A flash in the pan.....
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Transmission Journal: Proper #11 →
transmissionjournal:
It’s back. After a slightly longer than first hoped hiatus, the good people behind Proper Magazine are back with a bang in issue eleven. Their tenth issue saw the Proper become a ‘proper’ magazine with drastically improved print quality and double the content of any of the previous issues….
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WatchDJ booth of the day. Life’s a beach, eh?
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Chicago House Legends Part 2 -Lil’ Louis
Saturday 5 November @ XOYO, London - Tickets £16
http://www.xoyo.co.uk/events/gigdetails/5-nov-11-chicago-house-legends-part-2-xoyo/
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Listen to the man with the well groomed moustache,...
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In an 808 state
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Bounce your body to the box
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History of House - Part 4
1989
By now the UK and its trend-hungry music press had become the local point of the dance music world. After acid had slumped into fatuousness with the adopted logo of acid, the smiley, appearing on t- shirts racked up in every high street and the mainstream press (including the ‘qualities’) scuttling after every whiff of a half-arsed drug story, they discovered new beat from...
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From the Acid Grandad's Archives.
Did we mention that we used to go to the Hacienda?
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Beware of Voguers at all times
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History of House - part 3
1988
In truth, acid house had already started long before 1988. Amongst the scores of Chicagoans who were buying equipment and trying to learn how to make tracks was one DJ Pierre, who’d started out playing Italian imports at roller discos in the Chicago suburbs, and who had joined Lil Louis for his notorious parties.
“Phuture was me and two other guys, Spanky and Herbert J.”...
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GO TECHNO
Caution. Elderly people behaving disgracefully.
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Mix of the morning - Tony Humphries from 1992
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Producer Series #3 Andrew Weatherall @ Test... →
New from Test Pressing:
“Number three in our producers series focuses on some of the early work of Andrew Weatherall. There will be a further edition focusing on Weatherall’s early years at a later date as there is too much to cover in one sitting.
So program three – it’s a mix of genres and noises blended together that some how join up and make sense. Funk breaks on indie records that...
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History of House - Part 2
1986
While Frankie Knuckles had laid the groundwork for house at the Warehouse, it was to be another DJ from the gay scene that was really to create the environment for the house explosion - Ron Hardy. Where Knuckles’ sound was still very much based in disco, Hardy was the DJ that went for the rawest, wildest rhythm tracks he could find and he made The Music Box the inspirational temple for...
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Ever wanted to make your own records? →
How to make your own dubplate cutter out of an old yoghurt pot, some wood and a carpet knife blade. Blue Peter would be proud.
Here’s one we made earlier:
http://www.floka.com/lofi/primi_cut.html
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The History Of House - Part 1
It’s been ten years since the first identifiably house tracks were put on to vinyl, ten years which have changed the technology behind the electronic music revolution beyond recognition but left the basic structure of house intact. It’s seven years since it was being said house couldn’t last, that it was just hi-NRG, a fast blast that would wither as quickly as it had started....
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