User blog:Jeremiah Garland/Dubstep from the 1950s

I found this while surfing YouTube the other day, and it's quite interesting.

This is, perhaps, the earliest known example of electronic / experimental music. While this song lacks notable features of modern dubstep (such as the heavy bass), it still contains other characteristics, such as the heavy use of synthesizers and sound effects. This might be more electronic / acid house than dubstep, but still very interesting.

Upon further research, this "song" was an experimental track by Dutch composers Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan, both of whom played integral parts in early development of electronic music. Dissevelt and Baltan worked together to help merge electronic and the growing popularity of jazz, though this was unsuccessful. Overall, there electronic experimental pieces never caught on with the public, and was forgotten. Now, in the new age of electronic music, their music has begun to become more noticed and the two are considered pioneers. This song was mixed in their studio in Indonesia, in the year 1958. Note the use of synthesizers and random sound effects.