Acid house

Acid House is a term commonly used in the late 1980s to describe certain types of dance music which took place at venues where drugs like LSD and ecstasy were regularly used.

The word 'Acid' referred to LSD while the word 'House' referred to the music which first appeared in Chicago at a dance venue called The Warehouse. More recently the term has been reduced to House. It is only one of many types of dance music now played in UK clubs.

Updated Jan 2004