The Accidental Birth of Acid House Music We talk about the origins of acid house music, which was created using a Roland 909 drum machine and a Roland 303 bass machine. This equipment was initially seen as cheap and undesirable, but musicians in Detroit and elsewhere started using it in innovative ways, creating a new sound that became hugely popular in the late 1980s. The music had a powerful, danceable quality, and the raves that sprung up around it took on a tribal, transcendental atmosphere

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