If we need to select a symbol for retro-futurism – this trend consisting in coming back to the past, in order to reinvent the future – this needs to be Edan Portnoy. With his first album, the underground classic Primitive Plus, the rapper, producer and DJ created an improbable musical subgenre: old school hip-hop for the year 3000. He had gone back to rap as it existed in the 80's, and brought it into the new millennium, as if the 90's had never happened. And with his second album, he had returned even further, in the 60's, transferring psychedelic rock to the rap era.
