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.
As with most successful music scenes in Britain, the music was borrowed from the US then used, improved, and sold back to the US. …
