Acid House, love, drugs and the Balearic Beat, let’s take a look at some of the tunes that started it all.
The infamous story of how four UK DJ’s visited a tiny island in the Mediterranean and came back with an inspired vision of how to change clubland in the UK is well known and also hotly contested by many (mostly northerners). Johnnie Walker, Danny Rampling, Paul Oakenfold and Nicky Holloway were the names and Ibiza was the place, and ecstasy was the drug that ‘fuelled’ the movement, or was it?
We came into contact with E for the first time at Amnesia and of course we had the most amazing time but I thought drugs weren’t for me, but when I saw Nicky and Paul holding hands and skipping around the club I thought this doesn’t look so bad. Johnnie Walker
Of course there was names like Colin Faver, Mike Pickering, Mark Moore and Jazzy M already trying to introduce the sound to the UK clubs to not much avail, but when 1988 came and clubs and parties like Shoom, Spectrum, Trip, Wag and up north The Haçienda began to inspire, the movement began and people were littering the streets shouting ‘Acieeeed’.
Behind these euphoric times were seminal tracks handpicked from across the globe, from Chicago to Detroit to Spain to the UK, these are some of the tracks that began the scene we all know and love.
