Andrew Weatherall, an omnivorous D.J., producer and musician known for his impact on England’s acid house scene and for uniting rock and rave on the group Primal Scream’s album “Screamadelica,” died on Feb. 17 in London. He was 56.

His managers said the cause was a pulmonary embolism.

Mr. Weatherall moved to London in the late 1980s and began playing records at parties, attracting attention from D.J.s spinning acid house — a subgenre known for mixing rock music with psychedelic textures from the 1960s and so-called acidic sounds from the Roland TB-303 synthesizer.

“Club culture started in 1987, and Andrew was a part of that,” the D.J. Paul Oakenfold said in a phone interview. “Everyone started to go to nightclubs because the D.J. was playing music. Today, we’re all still doing the same thing, but the only difference is, most people in the crowd have a phone in front of them.”