So a few friends were discussing this topic last night, of bands seemingly never being able to live up to the old bands before them.
We thought this to be the same with electronic DJs and producers. And I think its just beacuse they were doing something someone had never done before. DJs like Carl Cox, Saunderson and even Frankie Bones (to name a tiny few) made this stuff up almost out of nowhere. Sure, the foundation was laid but this music from them, was just as fresh as Zeppelin or the Beatles when they came out. Sure, every dude with a laptop can be a DJ now and technology is much better, but the foundation for this sort of music has been laid and no DJ from now or ever will be able to top what the pioneers did.
anyway, thought i'd share.