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Avex Axiom

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 chicagoland area and midwest 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 from recycle and reason, plugs them into cubase sx 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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