Dogs on Acid
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The DOA Homepage
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Type of site
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Portal |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Vexus (previously Adam F, DJ Fresh, Grooverider and Sacha Cohen) |
| Created by | Bad Company |
| Slogan(s) | Where Music Talks! |
| Website | dogsonacid.com |
| Alexa rank |
 196,884 (October 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | 29 January 2001 |
Dogs On Acid (also known as its abbreviation DOA by its users), is a UK-based electronic music website, established in 2001.
Dogs On Acid began life as a community on Bad Company's website, bcrecordings.com, back in 2000.
On 27 April 2010, the website reached 10 million posts from the forums, with almost 9 million posts on The Board and over a million on The Grid.
Next to a community which holds over 87,000 members, the website features: an Editorial section, stores selling merchandise and - in cooperation with Track It Down - online music downloads, an image gallery, an online radio and an audio section, showcasing the latest tracks from the scene. The Grid, the website's music production section, is the birthplace of many new D&B talent. Noisia, Mistabishi, Pendulum, Alix Perez, Danny Byrd and Data to name a few, were regular contributors before gaining any mainstream popularity. Next to this, most D&B artists and promoters are or were regular contributors to the community. Dogs On Acid also runs various music labels: Breakbeat Kaos, Dogs On Acid and Under Construction (See BBK Sublabels) and promotes and organises various parties worldwide.
Dogs on Acid's arch-rivals are Drum and Bass Arena. The rivalry spawns from the fact that both portals are arguably the two biggest content-filled websites for the drum and bass genre on the internet. Today the relationship between both forums are light-hearted, where both production sub-forums have competitions for best track and mixes; bringing the comprehensive community together. Much of DOA's users are considered more international whereas DnB Arena is a site mainly aimed at UK; although a few members post on both.
The Drum & Bass group Pendulum started much of their activity on DOA, before and during their time being signed to Breakbeat Kaos (BBK), posting on the board and helping other producers on production forum the 'Grid'. During this time DOA was to become the first board to get hit with any news of their releases, also causing the group to be hit with many questions on the production side. Following the success of Pendulum's Slam and Hold Your Colour, Fresh decided to release a compilation CD entitled Jungle Sound Gold Edition. Pendulum responded to the thread stating they had no idea about the release nor gave any permission. Rob Swire responded by admitting no knowledge of the album's release, and that it had nothing to do with the band. Rob also stated they gave Fresh & Adam F low quality tracks to be used for a set and not for releases.
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