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Directory – Flyers – Map – Before 1979 – The 1980s – The 1990s – 1990-2 – 1993-5 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998 – 1999 – The 2000s – 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – The 2010s – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – The 2020s – 2020 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023 – 2024
Highlights:
Technology for parties on a beach slowly develops, from electricity to vacuum tubes to DAT machines, along with the requisite discovery of LSD.
Goa, India develops as a hippy haven. Electronic music takes off.
Technologies:
1950s and before
1877 Phonograph cylinder 1877 Microphone 1889 Gramophone disc 78rpm 1907 Vacuum triode tube 1910 Gramophone overtakes cylinder 1910 Headphones 1921 First AM radio station 1925 Victor Orthophonic Victrola Photograph 1928 Magnetic Tape 1929 Electro-mechanical piano 1930 33rpm LP invented 1931 Electric guitars – eventually dominated pop in the 50s and 60s. 1935 Electric bass 1935 Hammond organ 1936 Reel to reel invented 1937 Bell Labs invents Stereo 1948 Commercial tape recorder 1948 Commercial Vinyl LP 33rpm disc 1949 Commercial Vinyl single 45rpm disc 1949 Leo Fender creates Super Amp 1950s Transistor-based audio devices early 1950s Les Paul invents multitrack tape recorder early 1950s Leo Fender develops precision bass 1954 Stereosonic tape 1958 Struder 69 mixer 1959 The Sideman, the first commercial electro-mechanical drum machine
1960s
Electric guitar largely replaced double bass in pop 1963 Cassette 1963 Mellotron 1964 Moog synthesizer 1964-7 Early electronic drum machines 1965 8-track 1967 PCM recorder 1968 Dub music 1969 Direct-drive turntable
1970s
1970 ARP 2600, a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer 1973 Polyphonic synthesizer 1974 Digital synthesizer 1977 Sequencer 1978 Microprocessor-driven drum machine 1979 Commercial digital synthesizer 1979 Walkman
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1821
Michael Faraday invented the electric motor
1876
1877
1889
1893
1907
1910
Gramophone overtakes cylinder
Headphones
1912
MDMA discovered
1921
1925
Victor Orthophonic Victrola Photograph
1928
1929
1930
1931
Electric guitars – eventually dominated pop in the 50s and 60s.
DMT first synthesized
1935
1936
1937
Bell Labs invents Stereo
1943
April 16, 1943 LSD Discovered by Albert Hofmann
1948
Commercial tape recorder
Commercial Vinyl LP 33rpm disc
1949
Commercial Vinyl single 45rpm disc
Leo Fender creates Super Amp
Early 1950s
Transistor-based audio devices
Les Paul invents multitrack tape recorder
Leo Fender develops precision bass
1951
October
Goa Gil born
1954
July 29
Lord of the Rings
Stereosonic tape
1958
1959
The Sideman, the first commercial electro-mechanical drum machine
1960s
Electric guitar largely replaced double bass in pop
1962
Ketamine discovered
1963
1964
Moog Synthesizer
Early electronic drum machines 1964-7
1965
1966
October 6, 1966 – LSD declared illegal in USA
1967
PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) Recorder
1968
1969
1970
Goa Gil goes to Goa
ARP 2600, a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer
1973
1974
Digital synthesizer
2CB first synthesized
1977
1978
Microprocessor-driven drum machine
1979
Marcia Moore
Commercial digital synthesizer