Acid Test

08/05/2024

Celebrating five years and the end of an era...

Mixcloud.com/The_Host

08/01/2024

This is Acid Test, where eclectic comes out to play. Content rules, carrying the message, it is the bulk of this program. To be otherwise, risks failure to communicate. Having remained anonymous and in the background, The Host has let the music speak. For once, we are going to talk, say what needs to be said. Realistically, only a minority of the audience are actually listening with intention at any given moment, fewer that ideal, though you are an ideal few, the most valuable of patrons, "The Listener". This is why the Host swims upstream, producing a weekly excursion into tunes unknown, destined to amuse a select few and raise contempt in the un-listening, Art makes no excuses, no apologies. This is Acid Test, ears back, tail up...

Stream the Acid Test Archive at Mixcloud.com/The_Host

07/25/2024

This is Acid Test, airing different renditions. The listener is encouraged to match the imposters with the original perps and fact check the playlist at WFiT.org
Time is short, nothing lasts forever, not even Acid Test. With an ear to the ground the Listener can sense the topic to be addressed, the Finale is near. Nearing an emotional peroration and a resting place. There will always be a place for the past, preserved in the Mixcloud, the stream continues underground, out of the air, oblivious to time in a classical sense. But first, it’s the penultimate Deep Dive in the Archive. Headphones recommended...

Acid Test is a production of Rapid Response Audio Labs for WFiT.org
Stream archived editions of Acid Test at MixCloud.com/The_Host

07/18/2024

This is Acid Test, taking the long way around, currently letting things take their course in a kind of "we'll get there" mode of musical transport. It's an Acid Test Long Player, diving into the deep end of the archive with the aim of becoming quite lost on the way home. Get into the rhythm, engage the lyrical story, lose yourself in the audio landscape. It may not last forever, but it feels like it could go on all night. This is Acid Test, take your time…

Acid Test airs live at 10PM Thursdays over WFiT FM and WFiT.org

Stream anytime at Mixcloud.com/The_Host

06/27/2024

This is Acid Test presenting fresh content to the Listener's delight, remixing recent remasters in the Beachside Retro Listening Booth. The Host has the enviable task of sorting through the entirety of new releases on a regular basis. Most of these cuts will be aired for the first time on WFiT and possibly anywhere. The music selected is, naturally, quite different because this is Acid Test, we are not looking for background, we seek stimulus. Let's face it, Test Heads are a special group with idiosyncratic tastes; 2nd shifters, nurses and chefs, prowlers and investigators, bikers and cyclists, delivering in the night. You may think you're alone, no way. You are among the most dedicated and sophisticated Listeners monitoring the airwaves. Thank you.

Acid Test materializes weekly at 10PM Thursdays as an infectious v***r transmitted through the airwaves over WFiT 89.5 FM and digitized on the internet at WFiT.org

Additional exposures may be experienced anytime at Mixcloud

06/24/2024

The Acid Test deep-dive-in-the-Archive for Summer Solstice is up! Artfully mixed different music, it sounds like summer, anytime. Stream at will from Mixcloud.com/The_Host

The Listener might ask, "Who's piloting this thing?" On closer inspection you notice the additional musical selection heard each hour, a result of the Host remaining in the background. Stay calm, the Announcer will pop in periodically to remind you of where you are.

The Listener is out there, but so quiet, sometimes we forget. Would you mind reminding us by rattling our chain once in a while? As much as WFiT might need money, we need to know that you appreciate how Acid Test and all the other fine programs on WFiT sound. You know how to get in touch, let us know we got it right. [email protected] or leave a trace at WFIT on Facebook.

06/18/2024

This is Acid Test, live at Hippie Fest! The Host extracts gems from the counter-culture archive Friday, June 21 at 4:30PM in the air-conditioned Peacock Theater. The reprise happening is Saturday, June 23 at 1:30PM on the Lakeside Stage. Limited, handmade Flower Crowns (see comments), free with a donation to The Farm, available only at the Acid Test events.
Experience over 50 musical acts on three stages at Hippie Fest at The Farm 19234 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville, Florida June 21-23, 2024. Come for the weekend. Check out more in the comments...

05/02/2024

This is Acid Test, leaving no stone unturned in the search for different, new music. Band Camp, the Majors, hanging out with creators, monitoring the influencers, we go where we must, rejecting norms and standards, taking form, free of limitation, for you, the Listener. Where one is more likely to be immersed in what's happening rather than concerned about what has or will happened. It's how the Listener was able to take the opportunity to hear all this different new music. It may never be heard again, fortunately there is Acid Test.

Acid Test airs Thursdays at 10PM over WFiT 89.5 FM & WFiT.org
Stream the Acid Test Archive at MixCloud.com/The_Host

04/28/2024

This is Acid Test playing the most recent releases. Sprinkled into the mix is a bonus for the Listener, new, different local music originating from the Space Coast; Kevan Brevard Band have a gig, Y'all D've Who re and Yellow (Mix 2) from JS featuring Kristen Warren! So much new music there is no room for the Host. Maybe next time.

Acid Test is available, without a prescription, Thursdays at 10PM
Tune in WFiT 89.5 FM or navigate to WFiT.org

This is Acid Test playing the most recent releases. A single set of hands toils through the night, shifting files, editing segues. The results are a cohesive and broad array the latest offerings. So much new music there is no room for the Host. Maybe next time. Acid Test is always available, without...

04/25/2024

This is Acid Test playing new music. And there is new, different local music, too. Fresh releases originating from the Space Coast; Kevan Brevard Band have a gig, Y'all D've Who re and Yellow JS Mix 2 featuring Kristen Warren! So much new music there is no room for the Host. Maybe next week.

Acid Test is available, without a prescription, Thursdays at 10PM
Tune in WFiT 89.5 FM or navigate to WFiT.org
Stream Archived Acid Tests at MixCloud.com/The_Host

04/18/2024

This is Acid Test, offering stories of weird landscapes and dreamy rapture. I know, the Listener was promised new music. Well, the Host was busy flying a kite and forgot this weekend's cause to celebrate. And so we begin on Mars, pulling focus on the herb as Richard Burton confronts The Red W**d. The retro vibe extends in all directions from the point of departure: a suggestion from Chemical Sue, a metaphor for escapism, another d***y fairy tale. It can be hard to tell when and where you are. Typical to Acid Test the folky fantasy ends up a v***rous paranoia, still ringing in the Listener's ears. Any more obvious and we'd get fined for sure.
We didn't write these songs or make the laws. Want change? Vote.

Acid Test airs Thursdays
WFiT 98.5 FM & WFiT.org
Always streaming at MixCloud.com/The_Host