This Is Acid

Infobox Single
Name = This Is Acid


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Artist = Maurice
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Released = 1989
Format = 12"
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Electronica/House
Length = 4:38 (Radio edit version)
Label = Vendetta/A&M Records
Writer = Maurice Joshua
Producer = Maurice Joshua, Les Adams
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Misc ="This Is Acid," also known by its full title, "This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)", is the name of a number 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart single by Chicago House music DJ/Producer Maurice Joshua, who recorded the track under his first name "Maurice." It reached the top spot in April 1989 and stayed there for two weeks.

The track is consider by House music fans as a club classic thanks to its infamous looping use of sirens and sexual screams in the background, complete with spoken vocals by male singer Leroy, who told them about the "Story" of the then-emerging Acid House sound. Although this would be Joshua's only hit single, He would go on to be a in-demand Grammy-award winning producer and remixer.

This Is Acid would later be covered by German Duo VooDoo & Serano off the album Radikal Techno 6.

Track listings

; 12"-Maxi (US)
*A1 This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze) (S & T Mix) (7:22)
*A2 This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze) (Deep Dub) (5:58)
*B This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze) (K & T Mix) (6:24)

External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/release/63710 Track listing at e.discogs.com]