Video: WORLD IN ACTION - ACID HOUSE REPORT PT.1

By now we're all quite sick of the "Summer of Love Redux" media clusterfuck, but the Audio.Out blog just spent a week reminiscing about a different "Summer of Love," , celebrating two decades of acid house with a few dozen MP3s of turn-of-the-'90s dance music. (Phuture's "Acid Trax," the grumpy granddad of them all, dropped back in 1987 when I was wearing out my Weird Al cassingles.) Tracks range from impossibly rough bangers by Steve Poindexter to novelty crossover tunes (a ska-meets-acid house record? Eek.) to more recent takes on the squelchy sound from Pink Skull and Jackson. And [...]