acid house
Gabe Gurnsey talks to Stewart Gardiner about early nineties DJ mixtapes, the continuation of Factory Floor and his new synth pop acid house LP
Sara Dziri’s Close to Home for Optimo Music defies easy techno categorisation by occupying different spaces that are yet the same space
Bobby Gillespie’s autobiography is a devotional, often hedonistic tale of rock and roll, punk and acid house salvation, writes Chris Bateman
Mark Churcher discusses the musical foundations of V-Neck and his A Nice Random Meet LP, plus Glasgow connections and the return of Emote
Zillas on Acid’s EP for the Nocturne label delivers free-form acid house, slow rave for dream realms and a genre exploding Vanessa Worm remix
Matt Anniss talks to Stewart Gardiner about Join the Future, his essential book on British dance music’s seminal but unsung sound: Bleep & Bass
DJ and producer HAAi’s dancefloor lethal, industrialised machine music debut for Mute gets a very welcome release on 12″
JD Twitch’s Beats soundtrack brings the rave era to life with a mix of formative Detroit cuts, massive hands-in-the-air trax and choice modern numbers
The acid house soaked, heavily psychedelic rock of Bonnacons of Doom returns alongside shock of the new reworks by JD Twitch, Liars and Capac
Glasgow-based duo Free Love light up the darkness of the moment with Extreme Dance Anthems, a magickal mini-album of cosmic acid house on Optimo Music
Optimo Music Digital Danceforce presents Frank Rodas’s persuasive debut EP of industrial, proto-techno, dystopian electro and spectral acid house
Dutch collective Filament launch a new label with an EP based around an imaginary all dayer where each track evokes a different time on the dancefloor
Peter Van Hoesen’s Kelly Criterion EP delivers a set of propulsive techno excursions that represents acid house past, present and future
The Golden Filter return with new LP Autonomy, a sparse, purposeful and powerful sonic declaration ready to destroy dancefloors and puncture souls
Jon Brooks’s latest project for his Café Kaput digital label takes a left turn into techno and acid house, and is just as thrilling as anything he’s done