excellent Resident Advisor article by Michaelangelo Matos on "permaretro" as the condition of contemporary dance music

it's a glass half-full view

the syndrome's been building for quite a while--remember Faze Action, or the nouveau-electro action of i/F, Ectomorph, Dopplereffekt, or Metro Area, or...

but it's definitely escalated in the last few years

it's like there's this omnidirectional recursive thing going on... the unexpected, seemingly out-of-schedule returns of figures like Zed Bias and Horsepower Productions and even Terror Danjah feed into it too...