Episode One: Acid 1985-2006

In the 20 plus years since its conception, acid’s presence in electronic music has been nothing short of ubiquitous. Almost every memorable artist has used Roland’s famous TB-303 computer controlled bassline. If you are not familiar with the instrument, basically Roland created a box in the early 1980s that would allow performers to program basslines to accompany them. Unfortunately it was expensive, a pain in the ass to program and didn’t really sound like a bass.
Throughout the decade, as people began dumping these for well below what they were originally sold for, other producers began to pick them up and make sounds with them that were not meant to be heard. Through the 90s, the use of the instrument expanded from Chicago to around the world and with the expansion brought new ways of looking at the mysterious squealchy sound. The goal of this podcast was to show the evolution of the sound over the years.

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