I said that I personally can't get excited by it.

And I don't like when Dam-Funk's music is called "boogie" because I don't think it is at all... and maybe that sort of disappoints me because I first encountered Dam-Funk as a DJ and not a producer. He turned me on to a lot of heavy boogie cuts and was actually a major factor in turning around my feelings about the artistic relevance of 1980s R&B (you remember well how I used to feel about it).

So after hearing the kind of records that Dam-Funk was spinning and then hearing his own music that was being toted as being of the same tradition (I don't know if he actively presented it as such himself, but that's the way it was sold)... the contrast was too jarring for me. It just does not hold up at all.

For example, here's a track Dam turned me on to (or at least reminded me of):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5FINfzqXo

and then I hear his own rack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7TrJMeO57g

He just doesn't have that energy, the distinct voices in various music parts, the instrumental solos... Hid shit fades into the background for me.

The comparison to Bryan Loren is interesting, but Loren has that dynamism and that "live" feel I need from boogie even when it is electronically derived. Hell, Kashif has it.