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

Example Sentences

It was the magazine world that gave Tillmans his first break in the late 1980s, when he was taking photos of the acid house club scene in Hamburg, Germany, for i-D, a British street style title that began as a scrappy fanzine.

From New York Times

The venue opened in 1982, and within five years had became the spiritual home of the acid house movement and the ecstasy-fuelled epicentre of British youth culture.

From BBC

From acid house and rave to the explosion of UK club culture, Carl Cox is now the self-proclaimed gatekeeper of dance music.

From BBC

During the 1980s, a cultural movement spread across the country with the arrival of acid house.

From BBC

A virtual reality experience that allows people to feel the thrill of an acid house party will be a "multi-sensory joyride", a producer said.

From BBC