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Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The defining feature of a "squelching" bass sound was produced using the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer. Acid house spread to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes. By the late 1980s, acid house had moved into the British mainstream, where it had some influence on pop and dance styles.
Acid house brought house music to a worldwide audience. The influence of acid house can be heard on later styles of dance music including trance, Goa trance, psychedelic trance, breakbeat, big beat, techno and trip hop.
Acid house's minimalist production aesthetic combined house music's ubiquitous programmed 4/4 beat with the electronic ‘squelch' sound produced by the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer by constantly modulating its frequency and resonance controls to create 'movement' in otherwise simple bass patterns. Other elements, such as synthetic strings and stabs, were usually minimal. Sometimes tracks were instrumentals such as Phuture's "Acid Tracks", or contained full vocal performances such as Pierre's Pfantasy Club's "Dream Girl", while others were essentially instrumentals complemented by the odd spoken word 'drop-in', such as Phuture's "Slam".
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You were broken inside but you're no fool
You keep wearing that smile 'cuz you're so cool
You're just pretending life is so good
And you remind me of someone I once used to be
You broke the fantasy world
But since you're well
The future knocks on your door
Every night we're there
The kingdom is changing
But the king will survive
And you remind me of someone I once used to be
Me of someone I once used to be
Me of someone I once used to be
And he reminds me of someone I once used to be
You were broken inside
But you're no fool
And you remind me
You were broken inside
But you're no fool
And you remind me of someone I once
But you're no fool
And you remind me of someone I once used to be
And you remind me of someone I once used to be
Me of someone I once used to be