Carlos Giffoni is the boss of seminal Brooklyn label No Fun Productions, and a respected artist in his own right. Recently, he’s been preoccupied with the idea of “acid”, and through his No Fun Acid project has been adroitly wrestling the otherworldly sounds of the 303, 808 and 909 away from their familiar rave context and into the realm of noise.

No Fun Acid’s recorded output has up to this point been slim, with an untitled track appearing on the Protracted View double-cassette Synth Night, and another called ‘3’ turning up on the Upstairs CD-R compilation Radio Scenic Glow Vol.1. But lovers of mental machine music can now properly rejoice: on March 23 Giffoni will release (via No Fun) a 2×12″ EP-cum-album by No Fun Acid, entitled, expediently enough, This Is No Fun Acid.

This Is No Fun Acid is limited to 500 copies, and features artwork submitted by an anonymous fan. The record was cut by Rashad Becker at Berlin’s Dubplates + Mastering, and pressed at Archer in Detroit. It also features an “elegiac space hymnal” remix by DFA-affiliated Gavin Russom, who for some time has been exploring the grey area between acid house, drone and kosmische synthesizer music via his work with Delia Gonzalez and his more recent solo project, Black Meteoric Star.

Here are No Fun’s typically enticing sales notes for the release:

“In the beginning there was Roland’s founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and an arsenal of ‘computer controlled’ analog jock boxes designed specifically to outmode the trad rock (read: HUMAN) rhythm section… the circuitry was so tightly wound however, so rooted in synthesis that it failed to meet its promise. It wasn’t until the mid-80s that the TB/TR system took novel form as acid house;  a simple but novel attitude shift that saw an embrace of extra-terrestrial machine funk aesthetics converging with the all-too-human need to make austere, robotic dance music.

“ENTER NO FUN ACID: Carlos Giffoni’s reinvention and reanimation of the noise cadaver vis a vis German minimal synth rewired to memories of seedy Venezuelan raves circa 199X. A nebulous drone gives way to 606 delirum, followed by an array of sequenced modular synth, infinitely spiraling like a borehole through Kakehashi’s 3rd eye. This is acid: the primordial years.”

You can catch Giffoni perform No Fun Acid live in London on Thursday 18 March, when he’ll be playing at The Grosvenor in Stockwell along with acclaimed synth-dreamer Oneohtrix Point Never. More details of that show here.