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The steam-powered drum machine. The steam-powered drum machine – an astonishing extract from the journal of Charles Franklin, the founder of the London Museum of Techno. Written in 1894, Franklin describes a steam-powered drum machine and what may have been the world's first rave. “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.” [MetaFilter]

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