Phuture (nowadays called Phuture 303) are a Chicago-based acid house group founded in 1985 by DJ Pierre, Spanky and Herb J. Their twelve-minute track Acid Trax (1986) is one of several recordings that lay claim to being the first-ever acid house record. Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... A yellow smiley face is considered the emblem of Acid House. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Trax were a New Wave / Power-Pop band from Dunfermline in Fife Scotland, (active 1978 to 1980). ... Music Man can refer to multiple things: For the play, see The Music Man For the guitar company, see Music Man (company) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... DJ Pierre is one of the founders of Acid House and a member of Phuture. ... George Robert Phillips McFarland (October 2, 1928 - June 30, 1993) was an American actor most famous for his childhood role as Spanky in the depression era childrens comedy movie series Our Gang, also known as the Little Rascals. ... The Roland TB-303 Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured by the Roland corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a defining role in the development of contemporary electronic music. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... A yellow smiley face is considered the emblem of Acid House. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DJ Pierre is one of the founders of Acid House and a member of Phuture. ... George Robert Phillips McFarland (October 2, 1928 - June 30, 1993) was an American actor most famous for his childhood role as Spanky in the depression era childrens comedy movie series Our Gang, also known as the Little Rascals. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Acid Trax featured characteristic bass lines from the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer - which was actually abused to produce sounds uncharacteristic for a bass guitar it was designed to emulate. The track raised to popularity at DJ Ron Hardy's Music Box club in Chicago and has since been repressed many times. The Roland TB-303 Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured by the Roland corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a defining role in the development of contemporary electronic music. ... Ron Hardy was the DJ of Chicago club The Music Box, which opened in 1983. ...

Phuture has released a great number of acid tracks now considered classics, usually as 12-inch vinyl maxi singles. Their only albums, however, have been Alpha & Omega (1997) - the first release since the group renamed themselves Phuture 303 - and Survival's Our Mission (2003), a name which may imply Phuture's struggle to survive as a musical group. A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks (generally an a-side song and a b-side song). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The music the group produces is dark and monotonic. Many tracks are very long, even passing the 10-minute mark (like Acid Trax). Sparse lyrics are occasionally related to drugs, like the lyrics of Your Only Friend (1993) which describe cocaine addiction. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Cocaine (or crack in its impure freebase form) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Addiction is a chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. ...

The group also recorded under several pseudonyms, generally using the substitution of 'ph' for 'f', for example Phortune. A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ...

Members

Current members

• Spanky (Earl Smith) (1985-)
• Professor Trax (Damon Nelomns) (1985-)

Former members

• DJ Pierre (Nathaniel Pierre Jones) (1985-1990)
• Herb J (Herbert Jackson) (1985-1988)
• Jay Janall (1990)
• L.A. Williams (1997)
• Phill Little (1990)
• Roy Davis Jr. (1990-1997)
• DJ Skull (Ron Maney) (1996-1997)

Discography

Singles and maxis

• Acid Trax (1987)
• The Creator (1988)
• We Are Phuture (1988)
• Do You Wanna Get Funky (1989)
• Rise From Your Grave (1992)
• Inside Out (1993)
• Mental Breakdown (1994)
• Spirit (1994)
• Acid Tracks / String Free (Phuture/Phortune) (1994)
• Times Fade (Phuture The Next Generation) (1996)
• Alpha & Omega (1996)
• Acid Soul (1997)
• Jack 2 Jack (Robert Owens/Phuture) (1998)
• Hardfloor Will Survive (Hardfloor vs. Phuture 303) (1998)
• Phreedom! (1997)
• Thunder Part One (2000)
• Thunder Part Two (2000)
• Soulgers Of Tekkno (2000)
• Washing Machine / Got The Bug (Mr. Fingers/Phuture) (2002)

Albums

• Alpha & Omega (1997)
• Survival's Our Mission (2001)

Remixes

• Roy Davis Jr.: Heart Attack (Phutures Mix) (1994)
• DJ Pierre: Matrix Chamber (Phuture 303 Deep Underground Mix) (1999)
• Zzino vs. Filterheadz: No Weapons (Phuture 303 Remix) (2002)

External links

• Deejay Booking - Phuture
• Discogs.com - Phuture
• Acid Trax review at Head Heritage