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Considered the earliest Acid House tune ever, “Acid Tracks” story begins with the friendship of two friends which later were behind Phuture - DJ Pierre and Earl Spanky Smith. Very close to each other since the high school, they grew up together in a very strong musical environment, until a day when DJ Pierre got surprised by his friend Spanky when he came on his house while he was DJing and told something like “Hey, I bought a drum machine, it’s time to produce!”, back in 1984.

Since Earl Smith had a job, he could afford the expensive equipments necessary to do it. But at the first moment, it was just a Drum Machine, which made them do drum solos – cleverly used by Pierre on his DJ sets. Earl Spanky had a natural hability with kicks, snares & hi-hats, so he quickly turned himself into an amazing drum line maker.

One day, Earl Spanky bought a Roland 303 acid bassline, and they both tried with their friend Herbert J to manipulate those sounds, and that acid loop seemed to be already there, but at that time they really did not know yet how to create different ones. “We didn’t know how to program. When we plugged it, it was already making that sound. It had plenty of different acid loops. As we didn’t know how to ‘create’, we worked on the only one that sounded good. No one really invented it, it was already in there. We sequenced it, and Spanky made the beats”, said Pierre, trying to remember his first steps as a producer, about 21 years ago. Boof, the “Acid Tracks” was ready.
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  • BISCOOP

    Nobody expected that Roland TB 303, a cheap bass guitar emulator will cause such a revolution in dance music.

    August 2010

  • humaniac

    acieed!11

    April 2010

  • GFX101

    <3 <3 <3

    April 2010

  • AbdQuadir

    he aint lieing.....

    March 2010

  • paola_tess

    cocaine wanted

    March 2010

  • zor77ro

    ne runde um die häuser ziehen

    January 2010

  • famkeZ

    I just noticed that too.. that this is "Your Only Friend"

    August 2009

  • RosesOfTomorrow

    Dizziz Cocane speakin'

    August 2009

  • crystaltrips

    This is 'Your Only Friend' by Phuture, not Acid Trax. Sort it out people!

    June 2009

  • uncle_aubrey

    The real "Acid Trax" is a 10+ minute acid odyssey. This is some kind of cheap knock-off - too bad

    April 2009

  • christianchinas

    una pieza maestra

    April 2009

  • gustavo888

    claro pex.

    April 2009

  • crystaltrips

    This is 'Your Only Friend'... Let's get our tags in order, hmm?

    March 2009

  • McFly2Space

    i lol'd at the vocals but still pretty fresh track

    March 2009

  • changethetrack

    WTF

    January 2009

  • clockey

    THE FULL TRACK ON THIS PAGE IS NOT ACID TRACKS. Damn.. wtf? It's been this way for more than a year now. Last.fm.. anyone home?

    December 2008

  • protoparodoxein

    azid zong dear old timez

    September 2008

  • Detuner

    accciiiiidd !!!!!....... xox oxo xox zzzzzzzz

    July 2008

  • marcstolz

    McYaballow is right, this is not Acid Trax, because if you listen to Acid Trax you know why it is called like that. no doubt!

    April 2008

  • basskebab

    big love

    February 2008
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