The Acid House is a 1994 novel by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film. Of all his works, it features the most short stories, with each chapter (3-20 odd pages) featuring a new set of characters and scenarios. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Irvine Welsh, reading one of his new short stories at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, September 27, 1961) is a Scottish novelist probably best known for his novel Trainspotting, about a group of heroin addicts attempts to quit using the drug. ...
The film dramatises three stories from the novel:
The Granston Star Cause
A Soft Touch
The Acid House
All three sections are independent, but are linked by setting and by the reappearance of incidental characters, in particular one actor (Maurice Roëves) who appears variously as an inebriated wedding guest, a figure in a dream, and God.
The origins of AcidHouse can be traced back to the 1980's when DJ’s used the House music that was already popular in Chicago and New York mixed with the “squelch” and deep baseline of the Roland TB-303 synthesizer.
Eventually AcidHouse spread across the Atlantic and arrived in the United Kingdom where it would become the central part of the early rave scene.
AcidHouse was around before the Acid Trax release by Phuture in 1987 but this release would start the AcidHouse movement.
Acidhouse is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters.
The term "acid" was used in Chicago at the time as a term for the squelchy "acid" sounds of such bass synthesizers such as the TB-303, and has no connection to LSD (in fact, the drug most commonly associated with the acidhouse scene was MDMA, or Ecstasy).
Acidhouse music became a central part of the early rave scene in the U.K., and the yellow smiley became its emblem.
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