Acid Junkies (live)

Acid Junkies is a dance act from The Netherlands. Their music is all about having fun:
nowadays the only motivation for them is that they enjoy making the music and playing it for a
crowd. The do not conform to any hipster styles or fashion, they just make and play the music
they like. Live, they present themselves with a mix of solid techno music, played live and
edited and enhanced with fragments of all kinds of dance music, spanning the last 20 years.
From synthi-disco, via EBM towards house and techno.

On singles and albums, the band¹s music has gone through a comparable evolution: Having
started with the purest acid house music from the USA as a source of inspiration, the Acid
Junkies add more and more modern elements to their music over the years. As a result, an
entirely new sound has come into existence, both technically and musically. The name of the
band might be the only memory of their past, musically speaking the band already steps into
the future.

The Acid Junkies started in 1992 as producer Stefan Robbers' solo project. It was his way of
saying 'thanks' to all the originators from Chicago that injected such large doses of
psychedelia into house music. The Part 1 EP on Eindhoven¹s famous Djax-Up-Beats label
became an instant success and soon the Acid Junkies were a real band.

His partner in crime for this operation is Harold de Kinderen, who provided Stefan with the
Roland TB 303 he used for the first Acid Junkies EP and who has been a full band member
since that day. Harold used to be a DJ for a drive-in show and played drums in various local
bands.

With Harold the Acid Junkies became a regular band, one that also performs on stage. Night
after night they direct the crowd from behind their piles of analogue synthesizers on stage.
The Acid Junkies can play an audience like one of their synths and can bring the biggest
cynic into full-blown ecstasy.

And so the Acid Junkies became known as one of the best live dance acts throughout the
world, with one exception. In their native Holland they were virtually unknown until a couple of
years ago, when finally the Dutch gave up their fascination with foreign techno and embraced
the Acid Junkies. Since then, they do there what they have been doing all over the world:
play. They have performed live shows at just about every major rave in Europe, like
Germany¹s prestigious Mayday, as well as major Dutch festivals such as Noorderslag,
Lowlands and Dance Valley. The band also conquered Chicago, where they shared the stage
with their one-time heroes Roy Davis, Robert Armani and Woody McBride.

In the mean time a few more EPs and 2 albums saw the light of day. These releases are
renowned for their added entertainment, in the form of cardboard TB303 construction kits,
collector's stickers, connect-the-dots pictures, voting forms and other gimmicks. Needless to
say the element of humour is a very important one in the band, a feature not unique, yet quite
rare in the dance scene.