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Acid Crackdown: Get Right Off One Chummy

Paolo Hewitt, Sean O'Hagan, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 19 November 1988

With the hysteria now reaching fever pitch and questions being asked in the (non-Acid) House, NME calls a time out to assess the damage in the tab-mad tabloid's ongoing war against the evil monster of Acid House.

STEVEN WELLS wades into the ocean of media overkill; SEAN O'HAGAN attempts to unravel the facts from the scaremongering fiction about the 'drug explosion', and PAOLO HEWITT asks the ground-breaking DJs: Where next for the House scene?

Total word count of piece: 2642

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