Everything Merges With the Night Before

Kiran Sande has another brilliant column at Fact about techno creeping in from the corners and electronic music's cozy relationship with the past, siding with the position of Rogue's Foam from a few posts back:

"There’s an undeniable sense that electronic dance music is no longer plausibly ‘futurist’ – the idea that every successive techno or house record is a giant leap forward for sound/music is no longer a credible one, if it ever was. Genuinely new sounds seem increasingly hard to come by. It seems that more and more, the most interesting records in the electronic music realm are those that enter into conceptual dialogue with dance music past. I think not just of Russom and Giffoni but, say, Atom TM’s Liedgut LP; the most adventurous artists around right now seem to be consciously and formally invoking the past. Er, right?"

Also, some erudite words from Gavin Russom, whom I've yet to check out but will surely be doing so.