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25
year old Adam Haydock (aka Avex Axiom) is a DJ/producer from Chicago.
It was only a manner of time until he became a DJ/producer through
his creative idea’s, his love for electronic music, and his
driving passion for achievement whenever it comes to what he wants
to make happen. His sound can range from a dark and defiant sound
to a fun funky energetic sound, building intensity and gaining momentum
into a storm of tribal percussion’s, crisp strings, and mysterious
industrial sounding synth’s. whether he starts dark and mysterious
or fun and funky, he always builds a positive ascending rhythm, giving
drama, mood, and suspense to the audience, Building up to a climatic
epic like finish with tracks the crowd can’t get enough of.
Adam was getting into electronic music since he was 15 years old.
Going to shows, Adam saw how the sound can influence the crowd one
way or another. He also saw how people viewed electronic music through
out the course of the rave era. Down the line Adam got into the sounds
of ambient music with plays from omicron, tranquility base, terri
themiltz, space-time continuum, adham shiakh, seti, facial, and other
artists. Adam was also influenced by the sounds of hardcore and gabber.
Going from one extreme to another, DJ. Hyperactive was on top of Adam’s
list along with Richie Hawtin, Aphex Twin, Prototype 909, Lords of
Acid, Front 242, 808 State, Underworld, Front Line Assembly, and many
other artist’s. Adam basically listened to any genre of music
from ambient to gabber to experimental to industrial to house to techno
to drum and bass. “If it has interesting sounds, feeling, and
drive I will like it.” Inspired by the creativity and endless
possibilities of electronic music, sub-cultures of raves, street crews,
and society in general, along with being a graffiti artist, Adam adapted
himself to the turntables. “I went to my friends house one day,
tried mixing and never looked back since”. He found a median
within the extremes of genres in settling with progressive house and
techno. Industrial, dark, funky, and tribal . “ I like it to
be interesting, funky, lifting, industrial like and driving, giving
a hopeful feeling, a building energetic journey through the constant
then and now, through the mind and soul of the curiously captivated.”
Adam has been moving dance floors throughout the United States playing
like their is not going to be a tomorrow. “ I like to play like
it is my last time playing because it just feels right and you never
know what will happen”
Adam still felt like there was something missing from his sets and
something missing from his selection of tracks. So he started to write
his own tracks. In today’s times, the ability to access good
production equipment on a computer gave Adam the chance to express
himself with his home computer based studio. Adam says, “The
sounds of sound ionizing and atomizing is what makes electronic music
so infinitive. A previously unimaginable sound through a mistake or
an effect of something. This creates new limitless capabilities in
the evolution of electronic music.” Adam has been using programs
to create his own drum kits, plugs them into gigs and gigs of programs
and attaches all kinds of synths and effects (which he can’t
stop playing with) giving, charter, mood, and color to his sound.
Even when he is on stage he can’t get his hands of the built
in effects and sampler pioneer has to offer.
Adam’s direction and drive will always find himself noticed
as someone who puts his heart and soul into what he does. Even in
this post rave era, Adam feels electronic music will never die. Adam
says,“Electronic music has been around before the rave scene
and will be around forever.” Nothing can stop his passion and
drive when it comes to electronic music. Adam says, “To make
use of the inaudible, audible, one must create from it’s absence.
It’s absence is it’s own omnipresent existence in time
and space, which is a world of sound in-it-self.” A strong will
like this doesn’t stray from negativity, hopelessness and disbelief
but rather continues to grow and feed off the positive and negative
energy into a characteristic of what makes electronic music strong
and alive in today’s times.
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