*2013 Repress* "A 17 tune overview spread across two double vinyls dedicated to rare and classic original chicago acid - and actually looking for the biggest, most leading-edge tracks. Knowing none, some or actually many of these tunes is almost irrelevant - when presented with a short history of all the music you first heard going out, like this. Manchester was volatile enough 1985 - 1995, so we shouldn't have even begun to imagine what Chicago was like, but the music gave us a pretty good idea. Heard on a loud system in an echoey cold room, more like a car park than anything else, it sounded magical - synthetic, bassy, hedonistic - futuristic music made with almost no elements at all. Check the awesome Marshall Jefferson in disguise record "I've lost control" , made with friend and party animal Sleezy D - which clearly paved the way for Adonis 'No way back' in terms of its no wave philosophy. House was the ultimate reduction of everything - you could hear new sounds, disco, sleaze, funk, dancefloor dubs - but hearing Phuture and marshall jefferson was so disorientating, so compulsive it seems the onslaught of classic acid has been retained to this day. A whole side is rightly dedicated to Phutures's shocking "Acid Tracks" and its dazzling brilliance sits comfortable in the knowledge you can't really touch it. A worthy testament, above all things to the deviant strain of partying and music generated in Chicago by Ron Hardy, at his acclaimed Music Box.A1 Sleezy D. - I've Lost Control 9:40 A2 Virgo Four - Take Me Higher 4:45 B1 DJ Pierre - Box Energy 5:12 B2 Frankie Knuckles ? - Baby Wants To Ride 5:57 B3 Tyree* - Acid Over 4:29 C1 Green Velvet - Explorer 6:16 C2 Two Of A Kind - Like This 4:23 C3 Armando - Downfall 4:47 D Phuture - Acid Tracks 12:20