I've noticed that Afro-Centric music seems to have an instant nostalgia built in. It's almost a sort of ancestor worship. Jazz is that way, as is Hip Hop, as is Techno and House. The Ron Hardy 12" they just put out is $25, for no reason other than, well it's Ron Hardy, from back in the day.
The difference with Techno is that it started out feeling nostalgia for a future that never happened. Maybe that's the influence of the City of Detroit. Detroit is living a completely unexpected future -- whatever they thought the future would hold back in 1970, it never happened, and instead you have a gutted, underpopulated city, the legacy of the failure of the industrial revolution. On 12/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > QUESTION TIME. > > Q: Why is techno deemed nostalgic, when current 'hip' music trends are > incredibly nostalgic and draw from periods of music way before techno, in a > rather obvious and relatively unsubtle fashion? >
