This is according to Computer Music magazine, who coincidentally are celebrating their 303rd issue with all things TB303. They've ceased to be relevant as they've long since deprecated their tracker and demoscene column but as its acid, I've decided to bite the bullet and get a copy.
It's a bit of a strange one this, with it very much on the you will rent and be happy Roland cloud subs model rather than the various devilfish, TT303 clone hardware.
Props for putting up with Phocyon and Yooz for the acid software, but nothing on Propellerheads Rebirth or Signaldust's Dolphin for freeware.
Now we come to the main track list and its a bit strange to say the least. The official line up is this:
A Guy Called Gerald Voodoo Ray
Josh Wink / Winx Higher State Of Consciousness
Phuture Acid Tracks
Fat Boy Slim Everybody Needs a 303
Hardfloor Acperience1
Aphex Twin . . .
Orbital Chime
Imagination . . .
808 State Pacific State
Orange Juice Rip It Up
First of all both the 808 State and Guy Called Gerald Tracks can be dealt with together as they are from the same heritage and Gerald Simpson himself was a member of 808 State at one time.
Pacific State has a great making of on Instagram of all places, thanks to 808 state trying to get it re released along with their old back catalogue from ZTT. FYI it's Graham Massey on sax on this, but really has no acid and for me I'd sub out Pacific State for Dr Lowfruit Newbuild, as that is proper acid.
Second Orange Juice Rip It Up and the unspecified tracks from Imagination can also be dealt with in one paragraph, they are both early users of the Roland 3o3, for bass sounds. Orange Juice doesn't do it for me whereas Imagination are the sort of disco sound a mate of mine listens to, and is very well done.
I would put the one UB40 track that treats the 303 with reverence here but I'll go with Ice T Squeeze the Trigger simply because what rap track these days would use both the 303 and TR909 drums for backing.
The third lumping of Hardfloor, aka Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker and the first ever acid track by Phuture (culled down from an hour long tape session IIRC) Even if I would go for stuff like Hardfloor Insert Coin or Phuture Will Survive, They're classics and can't be touched.
The final accumulation is Winx Higher State and Fatboy Slim, whereas they're both good tracks I would definitely go for more of a modern house style like, Posthuman or Lauren Flax in place of Fatboy slim.
Higher state is an anthem though and has to stay.
Orbital I really can't think of anything with a 303 they did that can replace Chime for it being an out and out choon.
Which leaves us with the unspecified Aphex Twin track. The text says the acid version of Windowlicker, which is all well and good but they overlook Cock Ver10. or Steppingfilter 101 from Analord 1 which make a much stronger case for inclusion. The former being typical Aphex chopped breaks and style, the latter being a real melodic acid track.
Honourable mentions go to, Recondite Tie In just for being lovely and Aaliyah Try Again which I've always corrupted to crash the plane.
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