Acid Horse
| Company type | Musical collaboration |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Products | Single "No Name, No Slogan" |
| Parent | Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire |
Acid Horse was a unique collaborative endeavor between the industrial music innovators Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire. Their sole release, the single "No Name, No Slogan," came out in 1989 under the Wax Trax! Records label. The group's name cleverly merges slang terms for LSD (acid) and heroin (horse), referencing the then-trending acid house genre.
Similar to other Ministry side ventures such as PTP and Revolting Cocks, the participants adopted aliases:[1]
- Alien Dog Star — Al Jourgensen
- Gallopin' Scorpiosaddlebutt — Chris Connelly
- Biff — Stephen Mallinder
- Tennessee King — Paul Barker
- Harold Sandoz — Richard H. Kirk
From a musical perspective, Acid Horse fuses energetic electronic beats with memorable guitar elements, drawing parallels to Ministry's PTP project. Sandy Masuo, editor of Option, characterized their sound as "an unexpected fusion of house-style mixing combined with spaghetti western atmospheres reminiscent of Ennio Morricone." Al Jourgensen remarked on the project's ironic nature, critiquing the originators for attempting to imitate house music they had previously helped shape.
The formation of Acid Horse occurred after Mallinder and Kirk traveled to Chicago to collaborate with house producer Marshall Jefferson. According to Jo-Ann Greene of Goldmine, "No Name, No Slogan" shares notable similarities with Blancmange's 1983 track "Blind Vision," implying it might have influenced their recording.
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