Old Is New.

Right now i can't seem to get enough of the old. Be it old school Garage from 1998, Raw Dubstep from 2005 or classic Chicago House from 1986. There seems to be something so exciting about a genre when it's just starting out.

Many producers around at the moment are recreating the classic sounds of their genre in a contemporary fashion. For example Lone is making classic sounding house, while SBTRKT is making garage that's hard to tell if it's from 2000 or 2010. Even grime seems to have gone back to it's stripped down roots, with Artists like D-Double E and Trim achieving success at the moment by producing grime in it's most basic form. For now anyway, old seems to be very new.

Anyway the reason for this post was to share this documentary on the origins of house music that ran on channel 4 in 2001. It traces it right through from 1980 to 2001 and the emergence of garage. It's very interesting and provides a clear history on the cultural revolution that took place in youth culture during the 90s.