LDN - 26.10 - I Love Acid, Vibert, Cylob, B12

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Friday 26th October
10PM till 6AM

I Love Acid : Halloween Rave

Luke Vibert (Warp/Rephlex/Mu)
B12 - Live (Warp)
Cylob (Rephlex)
The Doubtful Guest - Live (Planet Mu)
AGT Rave Cru
Hac[k] The Tab
John Power
Sun Ov
Shinra - Live
Ghost Explorer - Live
Richard Wigglesworth - Live
Kone-R

Corsica Studios
Unit 5, Farrell Court Elephant Road London SE17 1LB
Telephone: 0207 703 4760

Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle

Tickets: £10 in advance | £12 on the door / £10 with NUS

"I love Acid for the way it makes me move. I love Acid it's the sound you can't improve. I love Acid get inside this nasty groove."

Luke Vibert knows it, you know, hell even Mixmag know it, nothing in dance music beats the squelchy snaking sounds of Acid House, which is why we'll be down the front with our head in the bassbins for the second edition of I LOVE ACID. Brought to you by the electronic brains-trust behind the legendary UnderLondonGround parties (held at the disued tube station in Aldwych) and the mighty Soviet nights at The Coronet, I Love Acid takes over the wondefully old school Corsica Studios, a warren of rooms and corridors in Elephant & Castle on Friday the 26th of October for what we in the white gloves and whistles trade used to call a right proper rave up.

With two decades of bleeps and bass to call upon, the full spectrum of acid music is being represented from the pioneering jacking sounds of late eighties Chicago to today's chopped and twisted technoheads. Leading the line is a man whose dedication to the beat is unquestioned, Luke Vibert, one of the most important British producers of the past two decades with seminal albums on some of this country's most influential labels such as Warp, Ninja Tune, Rephlex and Planet-Mu. Joining him are fellow veterans B12, whose early nineties releases on Warp and their own B12 imprint were a high watermark for British techno, back after a lengthy hiatus, the duo will playing a specially prepared acid set on the night that is sure to blow you away.

For the machine purists there will be a museum's worth of vintage analogue equipment on show as acts such as Richard Wigglesworth and Ghost Explorer harness the still incredible potential of their Roland boxes (which were probably manufactured way before most of the people who will be freaking out on the dancefloor were born) whilst the new school of acid is represented by the likes of Planet Mu's The Doubtful Guest and renegade hardcore troop AGT Rave Cru. On top of that you have sets from some of London's best DJs including jack (the house) of all trades John Power(Furthur/Strobe/Hot Sauce), Bang Face veteran Shinra, Uncharted Audio boss and much in demand DJ Kone-R and ex-bootlegger turned acid drone experimentalist Sun Ov.

But should all those fluorescent smiley faces get to much, no need to fear as the night even comes with it's own built in acid house backlash as Rephlex Records merry prankster Cylob will be on hand to stomp on any good vibes with an 'I HATE ACID' set allegedly consisting of brutalised Whitesnake, Def Leppard and Motley Cru remakes, horrifically suitable of course as alongside twenty years of jacking we're also celebrating Halloween this weekend. A holiday fitting for music that two decades ago frothing tabloid journalists were memorably describing as 'A sinister and evil cult', so we'll be decking the venue out to fit the grisly theme and providing masks and costumes for early arrivers (latecomers will have to provide their own, serves them right), welcome to the ACID HOUSE OF HORRORS, in the words of Adonis 'There's no way back, I've lost control' ...