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  acid house

  noun

  a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.
• Acid House
  Acid House

  noun

  a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy

acid house

American  

noun

1. Chiefly British. a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.

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Acid House British  

noun

1. a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy

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Etymology

Origin of acid house

First recorded in 1985–90

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Dance music has a rich history in the UK, with disco, acid house and techno among the genres which drew crowds to dancefloors in the 1970s and 1980s.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

He’s occasionally worked as a DJ, and has been involved in acid house, techno and other electronic music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

"We'd originally done Woke Up as a 10-minute acid house track with all these blues samples on it," said Love, whose real name is Rob Spragg.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

His new Great Hall Commission, “A Metta Prayer,” turns the museum’s solemnity into a funky, queer-infused love poem to the universe, set to an acid house beat.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

The seeds of indie-dance were planted in the preceding acid house years.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2020

Part-funded by Arts Council England and created in response to the 2019 British Textile Biennal, Acid House Flashback is an online archive established to collect oral testimonies, images and ephemera from the Blackburn parties.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2020

After the success of the 1996 film adaptation of Welsh’s novel Trainspotting, The Acid House was also made into a film.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

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