I was rambling in the Acid forum about dwindling awareness of what's come before.

What I mean is, I don't think anyone really plays classic tracks out anymore, and those tracks are classics for a reason. If no one plays them, no one hears them, and no one uses them for inspiration.

Every art form known to man has some simple rules, and one is: Don't go for complexity until you've mastered the basics. So people get swamped with the digital possibilities and don't think to go back to basics, back to the amazing tracks done in the 90s.