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By Permillia Shuttleworth

ACIDHALL - a combination of digital dub/dancehall, mostly from the 
'golden era' 1985 - 1990, with acid basslines. As far as I know, the 
origins of ACIDHALL can be traced to ACID RAIN RECORDS a label from New 
York, who released a bunch of dancehall related  7"s in the late 90s 
till mid 2000's. The label started with some mediocre releases using the 
"1999 riddimm" - a simple dancehall rhythm based around the stabby 
chords of prince's 1999 - The 'prince hommage' is also visible on the 
label's logo which uses the Purple Rain font. In the year 2000 they 
released the first record with the ACID HALL RIDDIM - an incredible 
sludgy Roland TB303 acidline with a simple rough TR606 beat. It was raw, 
uncompromised, trippy and above all irresistible -  sounding like it 
wouldn't be out of place on an underground sewage Beverly Hills 808303 
or Acid Planet release. Curiously the producer of this slab of raw acid 
was Salaam Redi - a well established grammy award winning producer who 
produced multi platinum selling albums for the likes of NAS, The Fugees 
and would go on to record Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album.

With its raw smudgey grooves it quickly became a staple in certain zones 
of the Dutch West Coast/The Hague electro-nix scene. Mixed with slower 
electro & italo, "cosmic", memphis rap & underground hiphop music. As 
there basically was only 1 acidhall riddim, the pressure was on for 
expansion and creation of the Acidhall genre: Around 2016 the first 
tracks slowly creeped into the scene - mostly edits/remixes of golden 
era digital dancehall/dub tracks layered with acid basslines. Often the 
beat is fattened up too with slow electro rhythms preferably from the 
Roland TR606, 707 but also the 808 and some use the Boss DR55. Other 
synths, strings and fx sounds are added too, whatever works...there are 
no rules! The sound is mostly RAW and LO-FI, smudgy and intense. Making 
acidhall is easy - everyone can do it! You just need a computer with 
software - a 303 emulator like ABL, Phosycon or that ancient sweet 
luscious REBIRTH - and a DAW. Cut up the riddims, play some reggae 
chords and layer it with some acidlines - like mayonnaise on a bun!

Here you can download (120.9 Megabytezzz) a compilation BEST OF ACID 
HALL music with 9 acid hall versions of the following songs:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2ai6rkvhghy6vt8/BeSt_oF_AcIdHaLL_cOmPiLaTiOn.zip/file

BOOM BACK - ROAD BLOCK
CRIME STOPPER - DRUGS ADDICTION
TONTO IRIE - WORLDS BEST LOVER
HORACE ANDY - CURFEW
FRANKIE WILMOT - PAULA & SANDRA
EVERTON CHAMBERS - Hold Your Corner
HORACE FERGUSON - SENSI ADDIC
THE TWIN ROOTS - Know Love
WHITE MICE - Don't Waste Your Life On The Freebase Pipe