Ongoing History Daily: George Martin’s EDM(ish) roots

The musical evolution of The Beatles was insane. They went from songs like “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “A Day in the Life” in less than five years. Most of this was due to the talents within the group, but we also have to credit producer George Martin for helping The Beatles realize their full potential.

Some of Martin’s experience included early experiments with electronic music. In the early 60s, he met a sound technician at the BBC named Maddalena Fagandini. She and Martin worked on a single entitled “Time Beat,” which was released under the name Ray Cathode in 1962. Nothing sounded like this back then. Martin took what he learned from Fagandinini and later applied certain techniques to Beatles recordings.

You have to wonder if George Martin would have had the kind of influence he did with The Beatles if he’d not encountered Maddalena Fagandini.