Acid House Legend DJ Pierre's Debut Album Out Now

Chicago house legend and acid house pioneer DJ Pierre has released his debut album. The new collection of tracks is intended to document the pioneering producer’s career, from his pre-acid house days in Chicago to the present. The album will feature new originals and remixes of some of his classic tracks and is named Wild Pitch: The Story after his famous Wild Pitch mixes. And it's released via German label Get Physical. 

Wild Pitch: The Story features 17 tracks, including Pierre’s remake of early tech house classic House For All and his own Let The Music Take You Higher. It also includes a remix of Roland Leesker’s What is House Music, 2017 updates of Fall and Generate Power along with a nine-minute cover of Donna Summer’s seminal I Feel Love.

In a lengthy career stretching back to the mid 80s DJ Pierre, real name Nathaniel Pierre Jones, has produced some of house music’s biggest anthems. However, despite being involved in killer, genre-defining tracks like Photon Inc’s Generate Power and his own Muzik Set You Free  it is his 1987 Acid Trax, recorded with friends Earl ‘Spanky’ Smith and Herbert R. Jackson Jr. as Phuture for which he is most well known. Acid Trax’s revolutionary misuse of the Roland 303 synth famously kick-started the acid house genre and provided the template for countless acid house records. He later developed his hypnotic, relentless, sparkling Wild Pitch sound which was instantly recognisable and was hugely influential in shaping the post-rave sound of house music.

Pierre has recorded under a number of pseudonyms including Audio Clash, DJ Pierre’s Afro Acid Project, Doomsday, M&M, Nathaniel Pierre Jones, Pfantasia, Photon Inc, X Fade and more. He’s remixed artists from the commercial pop world like The Pet Shop Boys as well as many underground house artists and achieved a Billboard Dance Chart #1 with Midi Rain’s Shine. 

Wild Pitch: The Story is out now on Get Physical - watch the short inerview with DJ Pierre below.