acid house

noun

1. Chiefly British. a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.

Acid House

noun

1. a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy

Word History and Origins

Origin of acid house¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Word History and Origins

Origin of acid house¹

C20: perhaps from acid (LSD) + House ( music )

Example Sentences

"We'd originally done Woke Up as a 10-minute acid house track with all these blues samples on it," said Love, whose real name is Rob Spragg.

From BBC

She was known for her passion for a wide range of music, championing everything from prog rock and punk to acid house and grime.

From BBC

In his own younger days, Holmes ran one of Belfast's most revered club nights - Sugar Sweet - which brought acid house and rave culture to a city steeped in political turmoil.

From BBC

His new Great Hall Commission, “A Metta Prayer,” turns the museum’s solemnity into a funky, queer-infused love poem to the universe, set to an acid house beat.

From New York Times

It was the magazine world that gave Tillmans his first break in the late 1980s, when he was taking photos of the acid house club scene in Hamburg, Germany, for i-D, a British street style title that began as a scrappy fanzine.

From New York Times