Recording

Acid Trax
Phuture

Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1987

Label

Trax

On

Chicago House, The Waxonia Desk — On a Machine, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred

Updated

2026-08-29

1. 03

   Ranked No. 3 in Chicago House

   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.

2. ·

   Picked by The Waxonia Desk — On a Machine

   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.

3. ·

   Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred

   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.