i have to say that i'm generally in the grumpy old man camp: "i've heard this before-- can't you kids play something new?"
but one positive side effect of the New Old Music phenomena right now is the reintroduction of grit into some of the music. even though most of the neo-acid and neo-punk funk are waaay to clean for my taste, the revival has had the effect of dirtying up a lot of stuff. here in san francisco, the ubiquitous disco house sound has become a lot less sterile and is (can be) more distorted and dischordant. another good side effect is that as much as i love my 80's punk funk, LCD Soundsystem sounds much better on a modern sound system than A Certain Ratio. -d
