>Would you then consider an 909 drummachine to be oldschool, >obsolete or ...?
Consider a 909 like a blues-guitar. It represents a relatively old, traditional and certainly distinct 'discipline' of music. It's a specialist side which people adhere to, despite it being arguably outmoded, because they enjoy it. And like jazz and blues, people are constantly trying to breathe new life into the relatively confined and already defined form of music which it represents. So whilst I may agree with the idea that a 909 is 'oldschool' (an ironic term for a piece of kit which you could say used to be symbolic of futurism in music) I can't see it as obsolete, even whilst I recognize it as out of date. k
