A DJ and equipment go hand in hand and have since 1906 when the first ever-broadcasted song hit the airwaves. In 1909 the first radio DJ was born, Ray Newby at age 16 broadcasted songs from Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless off a small spark transmitter. Twelve months later, radio transmission grew to become the 'in' thing broadcasting everything from music to comedy shows, information, and sport activities.
It was not until 1935 that the phrase "disc jockey" was defined by Walter Winchell using disc as reference to the record and jockey the operator of the equipment utilized to playback the music. The initial time a DJ performed live was in 1943 when Jimmy Savile deejayed the worlds' first dance celebration in England at the Loyal Order Ancient Shepherds. Playing a number of jazz songs, Savile was the first ever to use twin turntables to have constant play. The same year disco was created once the worlds first disco opened, the Whiskey a Go Go in Paris, France broadcasting recorded music starting the spread of discotheques throughout Europe and the USA.
The 50s' introduced the DJs' to sock hops and platter events spinning 45 rpm records and as element of the DJ equipment you might have seen a live drummer playing some beats to keep the party hopping. Nightclubs and discos continued to grow through the 60s' bringing new DJ equipment like the mixer. The beat-matching and slip-cuing methods arrived in 1969, which started the style of the seamless transitions by matching beats between tracks and the release of a record onto a rotating turntable at just the appropriate moment for perfect transitions.
Turn-tablism hit the DJs' repertoire in 1973 once DJs' began producing their own music by manipulating the sounds of the music. The Technics SL-1200 turntable made its initial appearance in the DJ world in 1974 and by 1979, the MK2 version of the SL-1200 grew to become what remains a stable in quite a few DJs' standard equipment. Hip-hop DJ Grand Wizard Theodore gave birth to the scratch technique by accident in 1977. Since then quite a few forms and kinds of scratch have been developed. The Eighties introduced compact discs to the DJ equipment in addition to digital drumbeats. Although digital drumbeats have been around since the beginning of the 30s', as technology advanced and house music broke to the forefront is when the digital drumbeat started making it big in the DJ world.
The mid Eighties also brought on the techno music bringing with it, synthesised instrumentals. Since the Eighties, there have been quite a few additions to the romance between DJ and equipment with some of the best modern sound equipment such as the Sound to Light DMX Control. Now DJs' can not only highlight their mastery of sound but also turn it into art in motion. The Sound to Light DMX Control adds to the entertainment that DJs' already create providing their crowd even more to rave about. A DJ and equipment could in no way part; their love affair has grown through the years and simply keeps getting stronger with each and every new advancement.
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