A few new and newish albums that are hitting the sweetspot on our speakers at La Casa Acid. First up is the latest album “Taste the Lazers” from The Time & Space Machine on Tirk, Richard Norris fine production skills are prominent in this psychedelic infused soundscape. wonderfully retrospectively experimental with hints of Krautrock and [...]
Mix Tape Favourites #6 – Pub Zinema, Ibiza 1989
In 1991 I borrowed this tape of a friend Mark Nelson who lived in the next road to me. At the time this tape seemed very outdated being two years old, in fact even in 1991 we used to refer to 88, 89 music as Old Skool, quite bizarre really as it was only such [...]
Black Kiss – The Orgasm
Who’s That Beat? was a sub division of Belgian independent label PIAS Play it again Sam that was running between 1988 and 1993. One of the earlier releases in 1988 Black Kiss – The Orgasm was by producer Phil Wilde who was behind a number of other artists such as Petra & Co and more [...]
Tim Acid – Old Skool Electro, Techno, Acid and House Mix Live on Pirate Revival
Here is a live recording of a set on Pirate Revival from Feb 2006, as usual unplanned and live on two turntables and a mixer, and one I actually remembered to hit record at the start of the set. Expect a good spread of excellent tunes with some wobbly mixes, plenty of old skool techno [...]
Tu Veux Ou Tu Veux Pas?
Wow, it has been getting on for two years since I posted the classic acid laced 80′s new beat anthem by Zsa Zsa La Boum, so time to share the second release by Zsa Zsa on Belgian label Kaos Records, and one that rarely leaves my record bag. I remember 1st hearing this on a [...]
Neon – Sultana (Funky beat Mix)
I have been going through the mammoth task of re-organising the vinyl collection, at these times I can understand the appeal of digital formats and software tools to archive and retrieve music within a nano second. Having now moved away from filing records in label order, that look pretty on the shelves seeing all the [...]
Ronan Le Roux – New mix – Paotr Saout – Quatre-Vingt huitard
I have another great mix to share with you from Ronan Le Roux, if you like you the darker side of early acid music then get on this mix. Many of these tunes I have not heard myself, so I cannot give you a tracklisting, but if you like to hear old skool mixes that [...]
Record Review – Retours D’Acide 87-88
Record Review – Retours D’Acide 87-88 The gods were smiling on me on the last day in May, I was moving all my worldly possessions into a back of a 7.5 tonne truck when the postman turned up and handed me a package with the ever so familiar shape that I have been receiving at [...]
A Split Second – The Colosseum Crash
A Split Second–The Colosseum Crash (Inside Out Remix) A Split Second–Muscle Machine (12 Inch Mix)