Why today’s culture lives hooked to his past? Recycling and nostalgia have taken over everything. Ironically, our grandparents who, at this stage of the XXI century, thought we will be eating pills that taste like real food; wear monochromatic ware-droves and have flying cars. Instead, the spirit of nostalgic makes believe that in music and arts everything has been already created. It seems the only thing left is look back and reproduce the past as it was.

Is this retro-overbooking make it us feel safe due to a future fill with blank ideas? Is technology growing so fast that is the past that help us give meaning to it?

It is clear the evolution from the industrial era is the technology era. However, the speed of technology changes is challenging the human capability to progress. It is hard to define an identity to so much stimuli. Being saturated with anxiety does not allow us to think ahead. Music reflect today’s world and the fear to the future in all aspect of society has sterilized our creative ideas. We use the technology to make the past available and accessible, and to dissect every sound we want from our ancestor’s music. In a way futurism is dead.

In music there has not been relevant progress in the past decade. But there is always hope, no? I’m a believer that the uniqueness of music is its emotional element. So why there is a lack of guts to subvert the history? Who’s going to jump into the abysm of the unknown? Why the re-affirmation in the past to check our decisions? The great thing about the past is that repeat itself. “Somewhen” a single mutation in space and time would stir a movement, or for a single artist to profess a concept that will bring us back from the fear that we have in the acceptance of any future.