The First Rave
Soon after the machine had been set in motion, the crowd had begun to move their feet in time with the beats produced. It was, Quincey enthused, like watching blades of grass in the wind helplessly succumbing to a higher force of Nature. Driven by the thunderous rhythms of Hoovenaars tremendous "drum machine" the crowd - academics and dockers, architects and cobblers - were whipped into a frenzy, dancing and screaming like savages until sunrise, when the Machine finally ground to a halt with a suffering hiss.

1980? 1990? No way -- 1894! The first drum machine was apparently invented and unleashed by Professor Guus Van Hoovenaars of the Stuttgart Institute. And not only that, the unveiling of the machine was held at a secret location and had a full light show. Niiiice. Read more here. (grain of salt required).
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