The British house music explosion

The success of the British dance music scene, which still flourishes today, can be contributed to the coming together of new music, the alien, trippy sounds of acid house, and a new (at the time), euphoric love drug known as ecstasy (MDMA). Yet, in order to understand this immense cultural explosion, one must examine it's development within a historical and social context, and examine the re - percussions of this development on music and society. …

…were fuelled by low - quality pills with high amphetamine content. As a result, the music became increasingly harder and faster. Soon, house branched out into the genres of hardcore and jungle. The Acid House scene of Britain is easily the most significant youth movement of the last twenty years. Today's dance scene is a global phenomenon, which has stood the test of time to become one of the longest lasting youth cultures in history.