record_label eurotechno
Acid techno is a genre of techno that developed out of late 1980s Chicago acid house . Acid house was essentially house music made with a specific sound , obtained by using very distinctive instruments created mainly by Roland , such as the SH - 101 and TB - 303 for bass and lead sounds , and the TR - 707 , TR - 808 , and TR - 909 for percussion . " Acid " specifically refers to the use of the Roland TB - 303 , or any other synthesizer designed to emulate its unique sound . While modern electronic instruments have memory banks of different sounds or " patches ", these machines had to be manually set by adjusting control knobs . The acid sound was obtained by either setting these controls to extreme parameters , or manipulating these controls in real - time as the track was being recorded , something ___MASK10___ producers would call " tweaking ". Richard David James ( born 18 August 1971 ), known by his stage name Aphex Twin , is an Irish - born ___MASK84___ electronic musician and composer . He is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in electronic music styles such as IDM and acid techno in the 1990s , for which he won widespread critical acclaim . He is also the co - founder of ___MASK51___ with Grant Wilson - Claridge . Brian Dougans ( born 1965 ) is a British musician , and a member of the British electronica duo , The Future Sound of London . The Future Sound of London ( often abbreviated to FSOL ) is a British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain ( sometimes stylised as " Gaz " Cobain ) and Brian Dougans . The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music . Although often labelled as ambient , Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre . Their work covers many areas of electronic music , such as ambient techno , house music , trip hop , ambient dub , acid techno . In addition to music composition , their interests have covered a number of areas including film and video , 2D and ___MASK25___ computer graphics , animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles , radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making . They have released works under numerous aliases . ___MASK51___ was a record label started in 1991 by electronic musician Richard D . James ( aka Aphex Twin ) and Grant Wilson - Claridge . Rephlex coined the term " braindance " to describe the otherwise uncategorisable output of Aphex Twin and ___MASK51___ . The official definition is as follows : Braindance is the genre that encompasses the best elements of all genres , e . g traditional , classical , electronic music , popular , modern , industrial , ambient , hip hop , electro , house , techno , breakbeat , hardcore , ragga , garage , drum and bass , etc . In 1989 , Grant Wilson - Claridge met Aphex Twin DJing at The Bowgie , a club located just along the coast from Newquay , Cornwall . As Wilson - Claridge points out , back in 1989 , " the Bowgie was the best club ever ... this was before Newquay turned into the Cornish Ibiza " and it was very difficult to hear new and interesting music . Wilson - Claridge and Aphex Twin used to DJ on alternate weeks . When he noticed that Aphex Twin was playing his own tapes rather than records , Wilson - Claridge suggested that they press up some records . In the beginning , committing Aphex Twin  s recordings to vinyl was a way of making music the duo ' s friends wanted to hear . Due to their geographical dislocation they did not have access to the music they wanted to hear and so they decided to create their own . And so was born the Rephlex label . Eurotechno is an early project , released on Aphex Twin ' s ___MASK37___ Rephlex , by Brian Dougans in 1989 under the name Stakker . It was originally a soundtrack to a visual work released on Virgin Vision by Colin Scott , Mark McLean and Marek Pytel . It has received positive reviews for its fresh early acid techno sound and hailed as innovative and timeless .