Was this repetitively bleepy knob twiddling four to the floor thumper really the year zero for Acid House? Or was it that it was Accidently created by three knob twiddlers from Chicago with silly names,including Spanky, DJ Pierre, and Herbert Herb Jackson?....who all worked for the music department in the CIA to rob the yooth of their minds(obviously NOT True....I think?)
Legend has it that Spanky,discovered the now classic Acid machine,the Roland TB303 Bassline,collecting dust in the corner of the office. A swift dusting off occurred and Spank hooked it up to the sequencer,and ...you guessed it....twiddled some knobs, resulting in lots of very strange squelchy noises that everyone else had rejected.They had bought one to exploit its claim that it could replace any Bassline you could imagine,which, of course it couldn't...It made squelchy noises;but to the correct Ear,this sound was something brand 'spanky' new,resulting in anyone who heard it to start dancing like a fucking idiot immediately......oh yeah,..I mean,dancing like an idiot as long as they consumed the obligatory sister drug MDMA. Basically,one would dance to anything if one dropped some Ecstasy or 'E' to amplify your tapping feet into a state of pure liquid chaos.
Phuture's debut track "Acid Tracks" caused havoc on dance floors in Chicago when it was originally released in 1986. It then went on to ignite a hells storm of questionable behaviour in farmers fields all around the M25 London Orbital in Great Britain, known as The Magic Roundabout.This was the start of Rave Culture,and the phenomenon was even debated in the UK Parliament on how to control it,as it was getting rather out of hand.
Phuture's debut track "Acid Tracks" caused havoc on dance floors in Chicago when it was originally released in 1986. It then went on to ignite a hells storm of questionable behaviour in farmers fields all around the M25 London Orbital in Great Britain, known as The Magic Roundabout.This was the start of Rave Culture,and the phenomenon was even debated in the UK Parliament on how to control it,as it was getting rather out of hand.
Acid Tracks was officially released on Trax Records in 1987. This track went onto spread around the world many times over and forty years later it,and its many imitators still plague the minds of children across the planet, and an epidemic of memory loss and depression blighted the E-Generation to their graves.
B1 Phuture Jacks 7:46
B2 Your Only Friend 4:53
Acid Tracklisting:
A1 Acid Tracks 12:26 |
B2 Your Only Friend 4:53
7 comments:
OK, Chicago, there we g0)))
Thanx a lot for the trip there, Jonny, I hope you'll show us the surroundings for a few more days.
And as for me, I think I'm going to dust off that damn thing, shove a dozen effects up its ascent through the first hole I find, and then I'll be able to go into a really bad trance, so bad that I can launch a total and relentless psychic ritual offensive on that huge orange idiot who's about to irreparably screw up the entire damn planet.
Mmmpfffhhh... I think I've shit myself again. Damn self-aware sphincters... NURSE!!! STOP STARING AT YOUR FUCKING WOUND AND GET ME MY PILLS!!!!! ALL OF THEM!!!!
For me there are some albums/tracks of which one can say: There is a Before and there is After.
This one (like the first Ramones, and Litanies of Satan by La Galas) did that to me.Thank you.
These early Trax (and early Dance Manias) are classics, certainly changed my perception.
I thought house music was utter crap until I heard John Peel play 'Phuture Jacks'. I'd never heard anything like it before and from that moment on I was hooked...
Interesting to read the history - I had heard that Genesis coined the term "acid house" but here it is, 3 years before the first house-y PTV record.
This is another interesting angle to the origin tale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2qZIC6q08
Hi Squelch, i have a file of the indian acid Raga's...so I will be posting it in our search for the golden fleece of Acid very soon.
get the pills in, there will be more!
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