After looking for this compilation in my collection for more than two months, it showed up in a place I forgot to look, in one of my old record cases. I was soo happy when I finally found it!
For an acid house compilation in 1988 this collection of tracks was way ahead of its time. There’s a mixture of tracks from both Chicago producers as well as anonymous European counterparts. All, except for Humanoid, of the European producers are unknown. The sound of those tracks reveal that they might be by one and the same producer.
Some of the Chicago trax, like one of Tyree’s tracks and both of Fast Eddie’s has been released on their respective albums. The mixes of those tracks might have slightly different mixes, exclusive for this compilation. Someone understood this and (probably) used tracks from the incredibly expensive CD version (50 Euros and up!) of this album and pressed a bootleg earlier this year, 2009, with three tracks from the compilation. I’ve got it but can’t compare them since I’m not at home when writing this. I might do a rip of the bootleg later on as well even if it’s kind of overkill.
There’s many of the tracks on the album that hasn’t been released anywhere else, except for the bootleg that is.
There’s so many fine tracks on this compilation that there’s so many to write about in detail that it would become a super long post so I’ll try and not to write too much about it. There is however one track in particular that’s very rare and that is Jack Rabbit Martin’s “Only Want To Be”. The limited promo 12″ (promo for the Acido Amigo comp.) on this track is for sale on discogs for $299.99 and the first occurrence of that track is on Yoton records and it’s for sale for £370.00. -That’s rarity for ya! No wonder since it’s a great piece of music.
When it comes to the rip I have to admit that the sound isn’t perfect on many tracks. The output is a bit higher than many compilations but I guess the mastering for vinyl pressing wasn’t done very well. Sometimes the stereo spectrum is a bit strange on some tracks and on some other tracks the pressing can’t keep some high frequencies without distortion. I guess they tried to squeeze in too much volume in too many tracks per side. There are well done records with four tracks per side with great output so in this case they didn’t master the tracks well enough for this release.
I did change the EQ on Cool House’s “Rock This Party Right” since the sound is very muffled and I increased the the high frequency spectrum as much as I could without creating S-ing distortion.
There’s a follow-up to this release in the form of “Son Of Acido”, released in 1989. More on that in a later post.
I have to say that I love this bunch of great acid house tracks and has done so since I bought it back in 1988 and was happy for weeks and played it constantly during that time.



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A1 The DJ Fast Eddie - Ain’t It Funky
A2 Sandoz - I Can’t Take The Heartbreak
A3 Tyree - Night Of Acid
A4 Nimrod - Acid Haze
B1 Humanoid - Cry Baby
B2 The DJ Fast Eddie - Clap Your Hands
B3 Cool House - Rock This Party Right
B4 Candyman - Slave Acid Bitch
C1 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
C2 Paisley Sq. - Transitional Phase
C3 Gentry Ice - Utilize The Beat
C4 Methadrine - Ah!
D1 Jack Rabbit Martin - Only Want To Be
D2 Tyree - Oh Yeah, No Hey
D3 Nouveaux Nation - Too Deep
D4 Cosmic Blast - Atomic
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Tags: acid house, Candyman, Cool House, Cosmic Blast, Fast Eddie, Gentry Ice, Humanoid, Jack Rabbit Martin, Methadrine, Nimrod, Nouveaux Nation, Paisley Sq., Sandoz, Tyree Cooper
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