Jon Dasilva takes over the full show again whilst the big man Posthuman practices his didgeridoo in Australia.

Dasilva guides you thru some ridiculous acid, jackin’ techno and broken nonsense, with a dose of Chi-town depth thrown in for good measure.

I Love Acid returns to Glasgow’s The Berkeley Suite tomorrow, 13th October, with Wes Baggaley, Nightwave and Jon Dasilva.

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I Love Acid w/ Jon Dasilva (*Whaley Bridge) - 12-Oct-23

SmileyGaz has been a passionate part of the dance music scene since the 1980s, immersing himself in its evolution and vibrance from Chicago House and Detroit Techno to the euphoric highs of Acid House. It's Acid House, in particular, that has remained close to his heart, inspiring both his creative journey and his infectious energy behind the decks.  
Hailing from the North East of England and now calling the South of France home, SmileyGaz brings decades of music appreciation and storytelling to his sets. 
In 2010, he co-founded the duo “Kids Love Acid”, pioneering experimental multi-layer four-track live mixing that pushed creative boundaries. After parting ways with the project, SmileyGaz returned to his solo roots, crafting unique mixes guided by his mood and embracing the diverse styles of dance music he loves.  
Known for his intuitive mixing style and eclectic taste, SmileyGaz keeps the spirit of the dance floor alive, whether he's channeling nostalgic grooves or exploring fresh sonic landscapes.

Peace, love and acid house x

Once a peace-loving sound doctor known for fixing frequencies and aligning crooked beats, Mindbender accidentally rewired his own brain while experimenting with an early prototype of a neural groove stimulator. The machine went haywire, turning him from mild-mannered engineer to full-blown audio anarchist.

Since the late ’80s, he’s been engineering floor-melting experiments and mentoring rogue producers through his Mindbender Masterworks lab - turning out a dangerous new generation of sonic saboteurs. Alongside long-time collaborator Högt I Tak, he co-founded When Disco Goes Wrong, a label-turned-underground movement dedicated to the noble art of rhythmic mischief.

His studio is a hybrid operating theatre and time machine, where vintage circuitry meets digital voodoo and every fader has a story. He doesn’t produce tracks so much as summon them - unpredictable hybrids of acid, disco and funk that refuse to behave but somehow make perfect sense at 3 a.m.

Approach with caution: prolonged exposure may cause involuntary grinning, mild transcendence and a lifelong addiction to weird grooves.

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With a career spanning over four decades, that began in what many consider to be the most important and influential club of its generation, Fac 51 The Haçienda, and continues with his residency for the award winning I Love Acid club night, few of today’s DJs can boast a pedigree like Jon Dasilva. 

Considered to be Haçienda’s most singular resident DJ, Jon Dasilva was fresh to the scene in '87, finding DJ inspiration in the House and Disco DJs of deepest New York and Chicago, amidst a sea of influences, from Bowie to Dub Reggae to Kosmische Musik to Disco. His broad musical tastes and ability to work so many genres into proper dance floor action mark Dasilva out as a next level DJ. 

His greatest legacy from that period, alongside championing the early Chicago and Detroit sound, was his imaginative take on the idea of the DJ set. Not content with simply mixing one track into another, Dasilva wove a cappella and sound effects into a broad selection of House, Acid, Disco, Techno and even Brazilian Batucada, intuitively mixing in key, building a set dynamic that until then was rarely heard on UK shores.

A lesser known side of his influence was Jon’s inspired warm-up sets at the Haçienda. This was Dasilva's first experience of playing in such a major club, and realising the potential to have fun in the first hour or more of the night, he went about mixing up Dub Reggae, Latin, Disco and Post Punk oddities, interspersed with BBC sound effects. Word spread and soon these mixes would become the inspiration for another set of DJs, who later went on to form the backbone of the soon-to-emerge Balearic DJ scene, as well as artists like the The Chemical Brothers, The New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Matthew Herbert, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and many more. 
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Jon still retains a freshness of approach, and this can be heard in his recent DJ mixes. His penchant for the varied shades of acid, techno and house, as well as his keen nose for sniffing out the most interesting modern producers, are evident.
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More recently, Dasilva has forged an ongoing relationship with the London club night, I Love Acid and the club’s promoters, Posthuman, regularly doing back-to-back DJ sets with Posthuman. I Love Acid won the Best Club Event in DJ Magazine’s ‘Best Of British’ 2019.

I Love Acid w/ Jon Dasilva (*Whaley Bridge) - 12-Oct-23

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