My favourite recent totally "underground" acid techno tune !

[Gus]

Well thats the whole point isnt it. If its not for fun, what is it for?

I've always tried to keep that in mind when producing. I've watched the acid scene eat itself from overintellectualising it and gradually seen everything that was fun braded as cliche or cheesy and the sheeple went along with it until everything was one long immacculately produced loop in a scene where what you play is more important than what you want to play.

The more machismo that infected the scene the smaller the audiences got until acid nights became monthly DJ conferences and all the pretty girls were in the house room.
I have nothing against deviation form formulas but this is one scene that threw the baby out with the bathwater.

But less of the badmouthing Smitten. Fck Goa or at least the remixes were the very essence of big room clattering acid.
If I could have hit that sound quality perhaps I would still be in the game and not a hobbyist. Or maybe not, some people have to grow up.

As for all the bollocks here above, there is a history of intense debate here where I was very much out on my own in my opinions but that was back when I gave a f?ck and thought influential people frequented this forum and not the self important prigs they turned out to be.

I seem to recall the worst of it being when I was trying to argue that Hardfloor, pioneers though they may be, still suck when comapred with the early Skankadelic releases and some of the Wahwahs. I remember saying that Henry Ford mght have been the pioneer of automobiles but I still wouldnt trade my Focus for a Model T. However, vociferously disagreeing with Mr the Drummer is not the done thing in these parts. Where he leads, the herd follows. Hence the current cul-de-sac the scene now occupies.

Understandable though. You have to admit... he IS very good.

Mr Drummer as in D.A.V.E. ?
Yes I used to play Smitten stuff , but to be honest after the criminal justice bill parties adopted a more harsh atmosphere. Acexperience kicked off Acid techno from where Im standing, others may disagree, I refuse to argue about genres - I am unaware of skankadelic though...... anyway chat later work calls..... shite I must be turning into a grownup !