Phuture / "Acid Tracks"

CTL-E-1204 · Institution · other · unspecified

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Phuture (Nathan "DJ Pierre" Jones, Earl "Spanky" Smith Jr., Herbert "Herb J" Jackson) created the squelching TB-303 track; Ron Hardy broke it at the Music Box (the four-plays-in-one-night story); released on Trax in 1987 as "Acid Tracks," widely considered the first acid house record.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:phuture-acid-tracks; source research type(s): record. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

DJ Mag; Attack; mxdwn (2020); Ron Hardy history

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