Acid. Both the powerful slice of cardboard and the inimitable style of dance music as perfected in the mid-to-late eighties, will mess with your mind. Whether it's a 6am battle against your own psyche as the physical constructs of the world you've come to know so well melt around you, or simply jacking hard to Sleezy D's 1986 classic "I've Lost Control" in a dark and dingy warehouse come the weekend, for many a dance music fan, acid is the one.So it's a pleasure to see Hot Creations mainstay and the North East's great house hope Richy Ahmed turning things up on the 808 front and delivering two brand new productions for a label that has been mistakenly viewed as a shuffler's paradise in the past. Premiering today on THUMP, and perhaps taking lead from Jeff Mills' seminal classic, on "The Bells (Part 1 & 2)", Ahmed delivers two slamming cuts of tech-house that seem lost down an acid alleyway of sorts. "Part 1" is sure fire weaponry with rattling percussion and a kick drum made to bump you into next week, whilst the bassline pressure of "Part 2" is one that we imagine would actually fuck with you considerably were you actually on acid. Not that we condone such things of course.Stream both tracks below, and the full release comes via Hot Creations on October 20th. Rave on.
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