1980s ACID HOUSE

Raz Mesinai on Chicago Acid House and an obsolete machine, the TB-303 Bass Line, discarded by its creators, Roland, and left for dead, like HAL or a replicant in Blade Runner, it was saved from the dump by street music producers in Chicago. These artists took the instrument and defined the resonant peaks of their own environments' acoustical space by modulating the 303’s knobs to fit body, space,…