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Gordon Mason - Director - THEY CALL IT ACID, chills on Ravey street. New house music documentary. THEY CALL IT ACID has been a labour of love for Gordon Mason, who over the last 10 years has been gathering together the material for this documentary. Much of the original film archive was shot by Gordon in the late 1980s - this footage is unique. Here is Gordon in his own words. HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE ACID HOUSE FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW? In brief; Acid House was a culture that developed in the UK in the late 80s through the coming together of all night illegal parties, Ecstasy and House music. Unlike many other youth cultures that had come before, there was no bad attitude or aggression, - it was about friendliness, fun and unity. WHAT LED YOU TO THE SUBJECT MATTER - ACID HOUSE? I was 21 in 1988 and Acid House was the time of my life. I attended many of the first illegal parties and was lucky enough to film at some of them as I was a budding film maker. After working in television for... - BounceFM

Hot party! Check the flix. Wishing many more to come. Special thanks to Benny and Danny for 7 great years. Can you feel it? She does. - BounceFM

Mystery Repeats. Oh yeah! Smoothed out hip hop. Its all about that violin. - BounceFM

10 DJ websites we love. There are a kazillion DJ's today and even more related websites. Here's a short list of some of the ones we love. Eric Wikman http://www.generate-music.com/ Harley & Muscle http://www.harleymuscle.com/ DJ Cherokee http://www.djcherokee.com.au/ Roger Sanchez http://rogersanchez.com/ David Harness http://www.davidharness.com/ 5 more afer the jump. - BounceFM

In house music history, DJ Paul TROUBLE Anderson is one of our absolute favourites.  Creator and resident of London's legendary LOFT parties, his mixes are masterful. Here's a random assortment of his mixes we found on the net. Enjoy.   http://classichousemixes.podomatic.com/entry... http://kiss100archive.blogspot.com/2007... http://kiss100archive.blogspot.com/2006... http://kiss100archive.blogspot.com/2007... http://www.dhpmixes.com/mixes... The rest of the mixes after the jump. - BounceFM

LA correspondent and local DJ Nice1Dave puts together this exclusive mix. Dance till you can't dance no more! Link after the jump. - BounceFM

Love Is the Message, He is the Joy and Come Into My House are among the house music anthems in the PRECIOUS movie soundtrack.   He Is The Joy - BounceFM

Flashback to a former summer anthem: Cada Vez.   Cada Vez - BounceFM

Bring home the Big Apple and understand why so many people love New York. From the well-known landmarks and architecture, to the diverse neighborhoods and colorful subways - you'll experience it all through these unforgettable color images. The 2010 New York City Subway Calendar, is dedicated to the subways in city that never sleeps.  It is a pictorial representation of the various subway lines and neighborhoods. Order today. http://www.subwaycalendar.com/ - BounceFM

A new book celebrates a mid-'70s scene's surprising diversity in real-time By Andy Beta Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 5:28pm Toby Old A page from Vince's book/life On my way to interview former Village Voice art director (and current New Yorker photography critic) Vince Aletti, I happen to pass a poster proclaiming, "Disco Is Back! Now playing at Bloomingdale's." This is strangely appropriate, as I'm meeting Aletti for lunch to discuss the publication of his first book, The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground Week by Week, which, as its title attests, collects five years' worth of articles he wrote about the burgeoning disco scene as it happened. So with this mighty new tome of his, is Bloomingdale's right? Is disco back? Aletti laughs at the notion: "I feel that disco never really went away, as much as it was declared 'over' as the spotlight of the media moved somewhere else." Seated across from the sixtysomething scribe in a St. Mark's Place café, we are but a stone's throw... - BounceFM

Want to sound original? Tired of the same ol’ ring tones? Detail your BlackBerry or iPhone with  Hip Hop Classics, House anthems, and more. Originally created for my personal use. As a token of my appreciation for your support, here they are. These ring tones are going to make you want people to call you more often. Feel free to share them with your friends or loved ones. - BounceFM

Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records. I hope you enjoy it.   The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo. - BounceFM

Live recordings of Larry Levan in the mix at the Paradise Garage and the Sound Factory. Shout out to DJ L461. Larry Levan: Final Night Of Paradise Vol. 1 (1987) - BounceFM

This month BounceFM chats with Chris Forman of house music production team Steal Vybe. Their new EP is out and its hot!  Our favorite cut is Track 2 – The Future. Its so deep, it made our bowels move! Perfect for peak time at the dancefloor. Like that record says, “put your body into it!” Here’s some of what Chris had to say: WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE AS A SPECTATOR WHERE A DJ OR PERFORMER TURNED IT OUT? I must say going to Shelter in 98.... Timmy was sick on the decks!!!  6 Hubert Street Club Vinyl!!!!!!!!!! I miss that place bad. . . .That was the garage for me! - BounceFM

Superdive, which opened in late June, is a much blogged-about bar on Avenue A in the East Village that has deconstructed nearly every imaginable pillar of the over-the-top New York night life scene. The bathrooms have plywood stalls, a scrawny doorman checks IDs but little else, and instead of bottle service, Superdive offers keg service — tableside. “Since everything else is so chi-chi,” the manager, Keith Okada, said while pushing a plastic cup of beer toward a young woman at the bar last Monday night, “we thought, ‘Why not offer keg service?’ ” At a table, a group of men in their 20s and 30s shared a 5-liter keg of EKU Pils beer to celebrate what they call “Manday,” a semiregular male-bonding night out. Superdive suited them more than a noisy club with menacing velvet ropes and $400 bottles of vodka, said David Sitt, 32, a Manday regular and psychology professor at Baruch College. - BounceFM

Kim Kardashian at Delicatessen followed by a night out at Greenhouse Nightclub, NYC. AT Greenhouse, no one could hear you scream, and it wasn’t for lack of trying. The music at the club on a recent Thursday night — a procession of Michael Jackson songs played at airplane-engine volume — ricocheted off the low green-and-purple ceilings, sabotaging all attempts at spoken communication. Until Kim Kardashian grabbed the microphone. “O.K., guys, let’s party!” she instructed from the well-fortified V.I.P. section of the SoHo club. Ms. Kardashian, who is famous for any number of reasons, was there lending her name to a new brand of vodka, which sponsored the event (never mind that she herself does not drink). The densely packed crowd was young, fabulous and occasionally recognizable. Danielle Staub from “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” made conversation with a dapper middle-aged man with shiny, slicked-back hair. - BounceFM

Flashback flava: 702. Turn up your speakers! - BounceFM

Many music industry observers now believe that there is a fundamental shift under way: from illegal downloads to licensed streaming services like MySpace Music, imeem and Spotify, where users can play any song, anytime and — coming soon — on any device. These sites are free, supported by ads, and with an expanding catalog of songs, they are finally ready to overshadow the more cumbersome, unauthorized services that can be hard for newcomers to navigate. - BounceFM

Everyone's talking about this movie. You will too. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. Shes pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesnt know the meaning of alternative, but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet... - BounceFM

The network says it has since received the approval of Mr. Goldstein’s family to televise the series, but the decision has raised many questions: Is MTV exploiting the attention the tragedy received in order to chase ratings? Does Mr. Goldstein’s death undercut the show’s message? And — as some drug rehabilitation experts ask — did Mr. Goldstein’s role in the production, which exposed him to the chaos of active addiction, contribute to his relapse? - BounceFM

Want to get Michael Jackson’s new single? You will be able to get it on iTunes this month, contrary to earlier reports. But there’s a catch: You’re going to have to buy some of the late singer’s other songs, too. That’s the pact that Apple (AAPL) and Sony (SNE) have reached this week over the upcoming release of the Jackson’s newest stuff: Anyone who wants to buy a copy of “This Is It,” the song, via iTunes will also have to buy some extended-play version of “This Is It,” the album. - BounceFM

The music industry has yet to convince consumers that paying a monthly fee to listen to music is a good idea, but it’s still trying. The newest gambit: Tying the subscription services to mobile phones so that you can listen to any music you want wherever you are (in theory). Spotify, the much hyped service that has yet to appear in the U.S., is a mobile play. Rival MOG says it will have a mobile subscription offering in the near future as well. But the new mobile product from RealNetworks’s (RNWK) service, Rhapsody, has actually been up and running for a little more than a month, and the company says results are encouraging: Real says that more than 500,000 people have downloaded its app for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. - BounceFM

A few different people have sent in the news that some more well known singers are saying that the industry is overreacting to the issue of file sharing. Sky News talked to three top female singers, Shakira, Norah Jones and Nelly Furtado, and found they all recognized that it was pretty much the natural state of the market, and it helped gain more exposure: - BounceFM

Two weeks after launching its mission to raise $250,000 (£152,500) to finance its latest record, hip hop pioneers Public Enemy have hit the $50,000 (£30,500) mark through Amsterdam-based site Sellaband.com. More than 700 people in 50 countries donated to the cause, making it the site’s fastest fund-raising effort to date, and it puts Chuck D and crew on course to make their full target by the New Year. Public Enemy aren’t the first act to ask fans to directly fund new material: prog rock survivors Marillion convinced their cult following to part with £360,000 to fund an album in March last year while Scottish rockers Idlewild offered fans to chance to get their new album first and see the band perform it live for £15. Other fan-funding services include Slicethepie and Bandstocks. Fan-funding clearly works for established acts with thousands of fans, but it’s hard to see how it would benefit new artists—the above bands have each been around for many years, meaning their followers are... - BounceFM

The number of music sites worth signing up for keeps growing. If you’re as disorganized as I am, a morning’s listening can make a mess of your desktop, and the different interfaces for each site make hopping around among iTunes, Grooveshark, imeem and Pandora awkward. Twones — pronounced like “tunes” — makes a Firefox / Internet Explorer add-on that unifies 25 music services into one interface. Twones also claims to be a rich source of information and bonding experiences built atop the music links, but it’s nowhere near last.fm’s seemingly infinite amount of user-contributed content. - BounceFM

Boom boxes with iPod docks are all the rage these days in home electronics. But Sonos, a company that sells home music products that connect to each other wirelessly on a mesh network, is going one better. The company will let you control your music system in your house with an iPhone, iPod Touch, or any Sonos Controller. And you can do it all wirelessly, without putting your device into a dock. It’s a great step forward for couch potatoes, who can now sit on the and browse through music collections and play music from their home network or the web without getting up. You don’t have to put the device in a dock to access music; you can do it right from your pocket. The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 will sell for $399 starting in mid-October. - BounceFM

So much for Tapulous‘ monopoly on the “rhythm music” game genre on the iPhone. Now the competition is heating up as Rock Band — the hugely popular music game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 — is now available on Apple’s AppStore. Electronic Arts, MTV Games and Harmonix said the launch of Rock Band for the iPhone was on its way on Oct. 8. The aim is to take back some ground that an unknown startup, Tapulous, took when it debuted its Tap Tap Revenge series of games on the iPhone. Tapulous’ games are installed on more than a third of all iPhones. And Tapulous has distributed more than 10 million copies of the game. The competition is likely to get hotter. Activision Blizzard still hasn’t launched its genre-dominating hit, Guitar Hero, on the iPhone. But Tapulous released its own Tap Tap Revenge 3 game a couple of weeks ago and it has been topping the charts. Both Tap Tap Revenge 3 and Rock Band for the iPhone are likely to target similar audiences. - BounceFM

Music is a ridiculously difficult area to make money in. Everyone wants be a part of it — which means there are thousands of entrepreneurs eager to conquer the industry. There’s no rock unturned. But Shazam looks like one of those rare music-industry breakouts. It’s an application that lets you identify a song by holding your phone up a radio or other medium playing the song. You can then do things like purchase the song or learn more about the artist or the song’s album. Today the company announced it has gotten a fourth round of funding from one of Silicon Valley’s top investors, Kleiner Perkins. The investment is Kleiner’s seventh investment from its iFund, the fund specifically earmarked for investments in applications that serve the iPhone. Matt Murphy, the partner leading the fund, told us that Shazam becomes the first late-stage investment to date (Shazam is seven years old, but only recently really took off with the advent of the iPhone application). It is also Kleiner’s first... - BounceFM

Amie Street, an online music store that prices songs in a dynamic way, has raised $3.9 million in a second round of funding. The company introduces new songs as free downloads and then raises the price as the songs are downloaded more often. As such, the site has been a distribution channel for independent artists. Deep Fork Capital was the lead investor. It converted a note from an existing bridge round and provided additional capital. The other three investors were not disclosed. - BounceFM