For two nights last week, the past, present, and future of Pinoy music melded as one.

At 19 East on 27 August, three young acts — Pinkmen, Zild, and Ena Mori — shared the bill with Apartel. The place was packed, which meant the bands have a fan base.

Pinkmen had finished its set when I arrived, but the succeeding performers made me feel I hardly missed anything.

Zild (Benitez), wearing a black trench coat with "Oh, Lunes Na Naman" scrawled at the back, looked like an apparition from a period when classic rock, punk and disco joyfully coexisted.

Fronting a quartet in an intense, blistering number, Zild, bassist of the currently on hiatus IV of Spades pranced onstage and growled about the return of repression: "Umiikot lang ang panahon, ang bagong dekada sitenta!"

The next few songs blasted with electro-dance energy. By the time the band's set was over, friends and I looked at each other and smiled approvingly. This Zild dude is hot.