Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I think the difference between what this is (or could be) and White Stripes-esque revivalism (and I'm not sure that the White Stripes are that good an example, really, they're quite capable of entertaining large numbers of people who don't know or give a shit about crackly old blues records - serious blues bores playing in pubs are probably closer to the mark) is that it's not about picking an older music that you claim was a high water mark and the best you can do is emulate it as faithfully and authentically as possible, it's about feeling that an earlier music had potential to develop in different and better directions and go back to that place as a starting point to develop something new.by rockist i mean interpreting early 90s jungle as a non-repeatable quasi-divine occurrence full of original and somehow authentic energy, and that any attempts at re-creating it can only be wank.
i might agree with that actually, but whatever gimmicky verbiage the label puts down, i don't think this is that much of an attempt to recreate as mapping that sound palette to a slightly different frame.
The weirdness for me comes from the fact that this, and Naphta's thing, and other similar stuff, seem to be trying to engineer a scene based on what a few producers want to do. So at the moment it kind of seems like someone shouting into a vacuum. It'll be interesting to see if anyone does manage to produce a scene that's self-sustaining or coopt part of an existing one (eg by starting to mix stuff with dubstep or breaks). I guess this is a time when that sort of thing could happen, given the slightly drifty open-ended feel that the rave diaspora's got into at the moment...