PHUTURE - ACID TRACKS (1987) VINYL 

Roland must have given birth to like 10 different new genres of music unintentionally

The definitive knob-twiddling, beats pumping, tune squelching, acidic masterpiece.

Who lister this now in 2024 🎉

There's a little bird in this music. - No, dad, that's acid.

I'm 47 born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, and let me tell you; when this dropped? MF's lost they minds, yo.. Just the way it come in, it's perfect.. The DJ played this? Everybody was on the floor, JACKIN'

BBC Radio 6 just played this at 9.28am!! you should by law NOT be allowed to play this tune without warning at that time of that day ,my weetabix went everywhere!!

Where Acid began.

I remember being a 7 year old in ‘87, sitting in my aunts Corolla listening to this new mix tape she just made... wasn’t too impressed with most of it until this came on. Blew my mind... music like this didn’t exist! How’s that crazy sound being made?! Most Australians were listening to Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham. My 17 year old aunt introduced me to the future. Thank you Ang. You might have gone crazy in your 40s and disowned me over my sons Lego. 😬🙄 But I’ll always appreciate you for opening my ears and eyes. 🙏🏻

You know, this one track is probably one of the reasons why vintage TB-303s are so expensive nowadays.

If the world was ending, this is what those in the know would be blasting from their speakers. Peace.

Acid house will always do something strange to certain people of certain generation. I'm one of those. 87 this sent people crazy. House music. Chicago. New York London / UK Ibiza. Viva.

Thanks Chicago for the inspiration. Sincerely yours, 90's Belgium

France. J'avais 13 ans. J'ai entendu ça su Maxximum, la dernière radiolibre de France ! Et aujourd'hui je ré écoute ça à 47 ans ! Et c'est toujours un délice ! Merci Acid Traxxv ! En vynil à la maison !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuegooooooo !!!!

I'm 47 years old and from the Northside of Chicago. We partied at the Music Box on Michigan and the Warehouse on Randolph and Halsted, Bismark Hotel, Medusas, COD, AKA's, Coconuts, Sauers, LaRay's, Powerhouse, Igloo, Red Dog, Shelter's, Hotel Continental, etc...When this song came on, we slammed danced and left bloody! lol

apparently you leave the 303 in a cupboard for a few years it makes acid tracks all by itself just because of how quirky the electronics were.

Raw and unrestrained. Just a drum machine and a 303. A long ways away from today's mega-productions!

You're welcome EDM! Chicago in da House!

When you look in the book of everything searching for acid housemusic this is what you should get....

Was the sound of the 80's Chicago .... ACIEEED !

This track deserves over 1 billion listens..,❤

When House Music was still cool and underground instead of all the commercial crap nowadays

This music is before my generation but I have to say im jammin heavy to these gems

"Oh shoot, man. 'Acid Tracks' wasn't pre-programmed, man. 'Acid Tracks' was an accident, man. When you get an acid machine you don't pre-program anything. You just hit some notes on a machine, man. DJ Pierre, he was over and he was just messing with this thing and he came up with that pattern, man. You know, dah-dah-dah-gwon-gwon-gyown-gagyown. So we were listening to it, getting drunk, man. 'Hey, this is kinda hot, man. This is a great mood, man. Let's put it out. What the fuck?' You know? We played it at the Music Box, man, and everybody was flipping. When I did Sleezy D, 'I've Lost Control', man, that's got screaming in it. Really, I was trying to get a mood something like the old Black Sabbath records or Led Zeppelin. So that's how it got the name Acid Tracks, because it's supposed to put you in a mood, you know? For one thing, the tune is eleven minutes of the same thing. slight changes, but not that noticeable. Like when you listen to a real long solo in the old days, it's the same bassline going and everybody's doing something different over it. That's supposed to capture a mood. Now, what everybody thought acid house was after that was a drum machine and that acid machine, the Roland TB-303, which was not the truth. Acid house was meant to be the capturing of moods. You don't have to use the same machine all the time. You can use different instruments. I hate that machine with a passion now. Everybody's using it wrong. The way they're diong it now, it's not capturing any moods. It's disrupting thought patterns, man. That just hurts when you listen to it all night. It stabs your brain, man. You hear doh-doh-doh-doh-doh-dit and I hate it, you know, when it goes dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-wheoghwowowweogh. Oh man! It's like scratching a chalkboard with your fingers, man! Man, I HATE that." - Marshall Jefferson, 1988

We lost a true legend icon founder of Acid House a very good close friend of mines the man who help pioneer "Acid House" from the group PHUTURE PHORTUNE & PHUTURE 303 Earl Smith aka Dj Spank Spank So sad of hearing the news wow he call me and wanted to come by my studio and help him rework his classic track "Acid Track" & "Pump it up spank spank" Earl did a remix for me and i re-release his classic on my label "Acid Bass" He was a down to earth caring person who love music and life!!! Gone but not forgotten my brother you legacy and your music will live on..... #ACIDHOUSE4LIFE!!! from your friend HOUZ'MON

Hearing this track changed my life, so so much for the better. RIP. Loss to us all x

einer der besten Trax ever! God bless Spanky R.I.P.

35 years on and it still holds its own ❤️‍🔥

1987 way ahead of its time,best acid track ever.

A micro dot and this when I was 20yrs old blew my mind. I still get the rush and tingle of the high notes, like my bare brain is getting gently caressed from front to back.

Just finished Peter Hook's book about Hacienda and had to discover this stuff. I'm glad I did. This was revolutionary.

I'm listening this at 4.09am. My god is this a phat track. Jesus christ

Years after I'm still addict to Acid Trax :)

This will never age always ahead of its time

As old as this is!! still love it what a tune!!!

ThE Ultimate MaN !!! Why the hell isn't anyone doing acid as good as this anymore?????????????

2020 and it's still on 🔥

I want to time travel to when this got played live for the first time ever !

I was 14 when my dad introduced me to the world of acid trax. We were moving house in 2014 and as we were bringing stuff in from the old house to the new one, my dad stumbled across his old cassette collections of the music he listened to in the '80s and 90's when he went to school and university. Stuff he'd forgotten about since CDs and online streaming became more popular. From rap/hip hop to house music to RnB and all types of genres, he found an untitled tape and his curiosity sparked. He put it in the cassette player we still had and lo and behold, acid house music. First track being Phuture's "Your Only Friend" and the track after being a Mike Dunn track. My dad certainly has a great taste of music. He used to tell me things about him moving to a new neighbourhood and he introduced acid house to his classmates at the time in high school, a town which never heard of this type of music before. I was born in 1999 and listening to stuff like this makes me wish I was around to experience the 80s and 90s. But listening to my dad reminisce is all I'm gonna get. 😁

Hard to believe this was around 2 years before me! Wow this shit is amazing!

Wait... was this really 1987?

Listened as the sound travelled from one side of my head to the other in a room lit by a purple light bulb. High on music.

"This is the beginning" (DJ Pierre). I was 12 in 1987 and my music collection, cassettes of course, consisted of 'Best of' compilations, Ghostbusters soundtrack and sing along tapes. We like to think that our generation is the best- best in music or films or whatever- but music is timeless and with great music when it was made is irrelevant

A TB-303 a day keeps the doctor away.

First heard this at The Bizmark in Chicago. Lost my damn mind when I heard it.

Everybody needs a 303

A time traveller that went back to 1987 must have made this track with 80's technology. Amazing!

'Your only friend', powerful message.

Maan! This track STILL gets you movin! Such a Classic!! ~R.I.H. Spanky!

can't believe I found this on Xmas 2020. The best best best gift of the last decade

After almost ten years of raving I just acknowledged the name of the real father of one of the genres I love the most. Big respect to Tadao Kikumoto, it's great to learn my foundations 🤖

Absolutely disgusting, I’m a teenage raver getting into the dance scene and this track never fails to make my face scrunch up with these blasting beats. Amazing Trax

Massively influential track 🙂

世界の音楽フェスの動画に失望して、ここに来た。 こういう音をライブで今は聴けない？ TB-303を愛している。

I MIS THE MUSIC BOX 📦

Nice, 30 Years of Acid music :D

The whistle doe. Like, never underestimate the importance of a real whistle.

This sounds "new" still. ... forever new.

Ok I’m just a poser newcomer with a TB-03 and a TR-09 but I think that and a sampler is enough to make some decent acid and this right here is inspiration! Love the twiddling skillz

Sqaurepusher bit this track hard.

Woww. .!!! Excellent Track , Dj ' Pierre 4:03 🔈🔉🔊🔝🔥😋♥️🖤♥️💫💥👌

When acid was acid.

43 people never were part of a spiritual music scene of free thinkers.

Dj Pierre le Pionnier de l’acid house music !

Imagine walking into a club in 1987, after listening to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Peter Gabriel on the stereo and hearing this.

Although this was never my favorite track, mad respect. I was lucky, through a friend I discovered the LA underground warehouse acid house scene in 88/89. This really is what started it.

so trippy after all these years!

The other trax I remember but the last track.... not heard before and it creeps me out....

Still gives me chills just remembering the good times jackin. From chicks to speakers. Don’t forget to check out Armando 151 and land o confusion

ACIDHOUSE 🙂🙃

Used to listen to this in college while I'd study for classes, particularly my finance class. Good times.

2019 anyone?

I wonder how long it took for sound engineers to quantize that down so that listeners stopped getting mad headaches

I have this TRAX old-school killer I'll be you're only friend

The fact that the frequency is so high but not irritating.

It’s just as good every time, isn’t it?

Just when you think you have researched all there is to know about techno/trance...you find a classic like this and it throws everything you studied for 20 years out the window. Amazing acid trip dropped on a crowd of dancers for the very first time!!! That would have been amazing to witness!!!

87? wtf! great quality!

Still makes my legs move in 2020.

Ahh.. the sound of my crazy fall down the rabbit hole! 🤪 those were the days with my champion bottoms and my pill box mirrored hat on tripping out my head with full strobe on and catatonic 😂 if you know, you know. Best days of my youth...I'd go back in a heartbeat. Buzzin😅

Sounds like it's from 1997, not 1987, way ahead of their time, although it gets a bit repetitive

i’m 13 and I was playing this on the speaker that I have in my room and my mom walked in and thought I was playing dance dance Revolution. now I remember where i heardthis type of music before. 🔥🔥🔥

Pioneers of Chicago

RIP Spanky. That is all.

When you talk about acid music. This is the tune 🙂

"And Roland Corp invented the (retro) techno sound; Obsolete technology is always fashionable!

Phuture - Acid Tracks & Acid Junkies - Sector 9 are my most favorite acid tracks ever.

acid is for ever

Alt und immernoch am Brettern.👍👍

Love 80s Acid ❤️

Aciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid😎🎹🎹🎹🎹

The creation of acid

Although Acid Tracks is the one that people talk about, for me Phuture Jacks is the one that sets the standard for all acid house....

Da war ich acht Jahre jung, und da ginge mir die Musik vom Onkel schon gut ab. Acid ist die Antwort auf alles.gute Laune im Kopp, acid auf den Ohren .. Alles ist in bester Verfassung ✌️😜😳😵‍💫🫨

Back in the days..... yesss 💖😎

A defining moment in house. And Aciiiiid was borne. Timeless classic anthem

Amazing how this instrument was able to turn a single simple bassline into a 20 minute track. A good example of people working around limitations. In this case, the difficulty of programming a single bass line and changing it on the fly.

Description says it’s from UK... wrong! From Chicago IL USA

This is the origin of house and techno.

Almost 35 yrs old! Still better than 90% of today's crap...

34 years old and going strong maaaan