Dave Swindells: “[Acid House was] life-changing, the biggest youth cultural revolution since the 60s”
He describes the explosion of Acid House culture as “life-changing, the biggest youth cultural revolution since the 60s. Dance music developed dramatically from that moment. The whole London club capital couldn’t exist without it, neither would we have dance music, or EDM as it became.” The conditions which allowed it “had already happened in Chicago and New York, with cheap, easily available technology to produce music, like samplers and 303s.
The magic of the era has been mythologised in TV, film and numerous books, but Swindells describes it as genuinely liberating. “People were carefree, living a different kind of dream,” he says. “Even if you just did it a couple of times, it opened up the world and you didn’t look at things in the same way.” Revered nightlife writer Sheryl Garratt opens the evocative essay in the book, saying; “Everyone remembers their first time.
If the scene was one of messy mayhem, its dedicated documenter, Swindells, was not. Out night after night, staying sober to better capture the hazy, laser-strewn atmosphere, using a wide-angle lens to improve focus in the dark, or with fast slide film to shoot without flash, using the club lasers as extra lighting. He meticulously documented each night, noting down the names of clubbers and DJs, and the resulting archive forms an important record of the time.
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