Circadian Shift

Addendum 01 May 2005: Thanks to Maria for pointing out that "Quatro" should be spelled with a "C". I never claimed to be fluent in Spanish :)

We're at the end of the month already, but here at last is April's addition to Circadian Shift: The Outpost. Get out your smiley faces, because it's time for some acid house:

• "We Call It Acieeeed" by D Mob (MP3; 3,008 KB) -- with its distinctive siren call, this pretty much heralded the arrival of "acid, the musical phenomenon" into the mainstream (at least in the UK)
• "Theme from S-Express" by S-Express (MP3; 3,650 KB) -- an epic string break, a smooth vocal sample, and that trippy synth line made this pretty damn irresistable

I suppose if I were truly cool, this would be the point in the blog post where I'd regale you with all sorts of tales from my experiences during the Summer of Love. Problem is, I don't have any. I spent that summer working in a bank and going to summer school. But I do have fond memories of the music of that year, depending largely on the CBC's overnight radio shows Brave New Waves and its former weekend counterpart Nightlines for sounds like the ones above.

Anyway, for the keeners, here's some additional linkage:

• Jahsonic's page on the History of Acid House
• Wikipedia's entry on acid house
• a shorter entry on acid house from a site called Pure 80s Pop