https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/chal-ravens/too-big-to-shut-down Created Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 Acid house wasn’t a genre of dance music so much as a new way of experiencing it: audiences dressed down, parties ran all night and – so dancers reported – social divisions disintegrated, helped along by the empathetic rush of the new drug.