Acerbic

Acerbic (Stay Up Forever/Hydraulix/Perc Trax) is the exciting new acid and hard techno project from Ant Wilson, aka Chicago Loop (Tronic/Respekt) and formerly known as DJ ANT (Powertools/Stay Up Forever). After a 10 year hiatus from acid and hard techno, writing and performing more mainstream techno under the name Chicago Loop, Ant felt that in 2023 it was time to revisit a scene that he knew and loved so much, the London Underground scene, and therefore created an exciting new project to fulfil this desire. And so Acerbic was born. Poised to take on the acid and hard techno scene with full force, ACERBIC launched in 2023 with a handful of attention grabbing releases on some of London's biggest Underground labels. This drive continued throughout 2024, but it was at the start of 2025 that really saw him up the game with his slamming remix of 'Perc's 'Imperial Leather' on  'Perc Trax’ and of course his massive 12 track, triple-vinyl and digital album release, BIG FAST SUPER BUZZ. Released in May on SUFHYDRO (a collaboration label between Stay Up Forever & Hydraulix) the LP received critical acclaim right across the underground techno and acid scenes, both nationally and internationally. Early copies of the 3 disc vinyl album sold out in one weekend when they were released exclusive to the Stay Up Forever store, and then proceeded to sell out in just one day when the official release became available through Juno and DeeJay a couple of weeks later.