With 2011 clocking up the 20th anniversary of the seminal Primal Scream record, Screamadelica, it’s a time of nostalgia for the acid popping UK collective. As well as some big celebratory dates in Europe this month Primal Scream will be out in Australia next year for Big Day Out, performing Screamadelica in its entirety in The Boiler Room at each festival.

To kick off the buzz surrounding Screamadelica’s 20 year reign as the indie-dance blueprint, the Primals crew along with Screamadelica mastermind Andrew Weatherall sat down with The Guardian recently to reminisce about making the record and Screamdelica’s impact since 1991.

Detailing the transformation of Primal Scream from black-clad rockers into loved-up ravers, Primals guitarist Andrew Innes cited the band’s exposure to ecstasy and the Manchester rave scene as the catalyst of change.

“You went from being out at some indie club where some drunken idiot would start trying to pick a fight with you to this incredible new-sounding music and beautiful girls and everyone’s being friendly,” Innes said of their first experiences in legitimate clubs. “You’d bump into some football hooligan and think, ‘Oh God, here we go…’ and he’d give you a cuddle and that would be your new best friend for the night…I can remember going to the clubs on Thursday night and getting home on Monday, but because we were young, we’d be in the studio Tuesday. We’d get up and try to find that energy from the night before and the mad sounds you’d hear on these acid records – because they were pretty crazy sounding.”

Shacked up with Weatherall in a London studio, Primal Scream fell for the new sounds and new equipment of the scene, praising the Akai S1000 sampler on the album.

“Suddenly we could experiment,” Innes said. “You’re a rock’n’roll band, but you can take a James Brown drum loop and play along with that; you can add horns, you can add strings. The engineer would give you a floppy disk with some tablas on it and you’d stick that in the sampler and try that. It was like we’d been painting in black and white and suddenly we had a full palette of colours to play with. The sheer imagination that went into these records on everyone’s part…it was people let loose with their ideas: we’re out here in space now.”

You can check out the full read here – it’s well worth your time – and to see just how well Screamadelica placed in our Top 30 Albums of the ‘90s just check out below. Bring on summer!