Detectd Weekly: UK Acid
This week, we’re taking it back to the birth of a genre, seeing what’s been popping in the UK since the London club scene spawned Acid Jazz in the ’80s and ‘90s.
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1 min readApr 14, 2020
Acid Jazz has become maybe one of the most fluid genres of the last four decades, moving between Jazz, Electronic, Hip-Hop, Psychedelia, and Soul, and bringing out the best of all five.
Over the last month, we’ve delivered everything from French Trap to Russian Indie and worldwide House to some COLORS-inspired R&B, but this week, we’re taking it back to the birth of a genre, seeing what’s been popping in the UK since the London club scene spawned Acid Jazz in the ’80s and ‘90s.
So, let’s see how we can use Chartmetric data — and a little creativity — to make that happen.
