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Phuture

CTL-E-0521 · Person · group · 1985–2026

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Phuture was the Chicago group whose early compositions Ron Hardy debuted at the Music Box, placing them in the first wave of house producers.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-group-009; source research type(s): group. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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