The Second Summer of Love is a name sometimes given, particularly in Britain, to the time (around 1987) of the rise in popularity of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed Ecstasy-fuelled rave parties. The Second Summer of Love led to the rise of electronic dance music from an obscure niche into a popular mass-market genre, and ultimately to the rise of large and highly commercial dance nightclubs such as Ministry of Sound.