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  "slug": "phuture",
  "name": "Phuture",
  "description": "Phuture appears 4 times in our Acid House, Chicago House, The Waxonia Desk — On a Machine, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/phuture/",
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    "first": 1987,
    "last": 1987
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      "title": "Washing Machine",
      "year": 1987,
      "label": "Trax",
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      "whyItMatters": "The B-side to the record that named the genre, and arguably the better one. Twelve minutes of a machine being tortured, released because Ron Hardy kept playing the tape.",
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      "year": 1987,
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      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "DJ Pierre misused a Roland TB-303 and accidentally created acid house. Twelve minutes of squelching, mutating bass that spawned an entire British subculture two years later.",
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      "whyItMatters": "The accident that became a genre. A bass machine nobody wanted, misused by mistake and then misused on purpose, and thirty years of records came out of the difference between the two.",
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      "label": "Trax",
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      "whyItMatters": "A misused bass synth, released because Ron Hardy would not stop playing the tape. One record invents a genre and names it in the title.",
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