DJ Haidak, one of today’s up and coming DJs, has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to his kind of music because he started at a very early age. In fact, he often shares what he knows about the industry, including its early roots. This blog is his way of imparting what he knows about the evolution of electronic music.
Music had long departed from its resurgence as a consequence of the creation of electricity. The first man to dive into the electronic music realm was Elisha Gray. The device he used is what we know as the “musical telegraph.” Later, music was already being broadcast through phone lines and similar cabling systems, Haidak shares.
Eventually, the world was ready to usher in an instrument that could play electronic music on its own, which turned out to be the electric organ, popularized by Armand Givelet. Most experts agree that this was the very first synthesizer. This also paved the way for more advanced creations like the Hammond organ, which had had 91 tone wheels and various switches connected to drawbars that controlled the sound.
By the mid-50s, the actual term “synthesizer” was born. However, the early machine’s most advanced capability was that it could produce music when a paper with punch holes was fed into it, Haidak points out.
Soon enough, synthesizers of various kinds were being created by many enterprising individuals, and as the industry progressed, so was the practice of mass production. At this point, it still had a long way to go before things turned into what we recognize as the type of music that DJs are into today, which DJ Haidak will continue to discuss in a later blog.
Haidak is a DJ-producer who is gaining recognition in the global music industry. The electronic musician has taken the decks in venues across the world. He has played at festivals alongside names such as John Digweed, Nic Fanciulli, Stephan Bodzin, Reinier Zonneveld, Oliver Weiter, Henry Saiz, Kobosil, and many others. For more information visit this page.
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