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True here too!

This looks incredible, not sure how I'd missed it! I have a feeling this is going to become a key part of my arsenal in the coming months...

HIZMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome KungFuFurby, dumper of some of my favourite soundtracks including Multi-Play Volleyball! Thanks for that one!

Very cool original music too!

Pixelh8 is an example of why marketing yourself properly/making the right connections can make things happen even if you make chipmusic. I remember him being featured in wacky art projects (like the one where he made music with /really/ ancient computers) and being praised by people like Damon Albarn. He also writes pretty cool music programs.

That is a really great track! I agree that it is perhaps a clearer appropriation of classic acid house.

Without wanting to be a pedantic nuisance (it's late, I enjoy writing essays about this kind of shit) I think the acid effect comes through more in its drum programming (which certainly is similar to that in early Roland-powered acid house) than its sounds, because the bassline can't really be said to have 'that 303 sound'. In the same way, I'd also say the Kplecraft track features tropes that go hand in hand with an acid style, namely goa trance (which often piles on the acid sounds) rather than classic acid house (which - if the TB-303 sound is indeed the sole true identifier of 'acid' - cannot be the only valid style of acid music).

I think such tracks highlight a point I was interested in exploring with the compilation - whether soundchips that might not be able to recreate the TB-303's sound (the use of which, I do agree, is probably the most solid definition of 'acid' dance music) can still generate music that, by utilising other familiar techniques, sounds like 'acid' to our ears.

This is an interesting point within dance music more generally - often the only thing that seperates classic house tracks from being categorised as 'acid house' or not is the use of the TB-303 (or similar sound). To throw out a random example, Mr. Fingers' Washing Machine features 4/4 drum machine rhythms, a slowly evolving structure and a repetitive tonally ambigious synthesizer riff. So does the sublime Love is Happiness by Jaquarius. One is acid house and one is not. Virtually every single other aspect would place them in the same genre.

But yeah none of you will have read this far. Let's just lose it to some classic acid house tracks.

I've kept an ear out for your stuff ever since your incredibly helpful video on Warioware DIY's Record Maker Matic (which - true story - singlehandedly inspired a friend of mine to go out and buy a DS the day after he watched it). These are some solid tunes, I would definitely drop 'Night Drive' into a lo-fi DJ set!