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Originally Posted by matt
I'm with Leon. I mean, it's 2009 people not 1994. "Electronica" is firmly established in the mainstream and those acts you mention in your original post are hardly obscure artists. I mean, even my mum knows who The Prodigy and Massive Attack are.
Have your friends been perhaps ensconced in an Amish Community for the last 15 years or something?
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Where I live, Massive Attack and The Prodigy are a rarity. But it's not just here, it's all over. You're more likely to find people who have heard of Lady Gaga and Shiny Toy Guns rather than the former two.
What I think is that electronica may be splitting. Just an idea that has occurred at this moment but it seems to make sense.
Electronica will be broken down into classic electronica? sort of like when Rock was split into Classic Rock and Rock.
Because I agree, it isn't so much that electronica is spreading over here, but rather, the genres are growing so much, encapsulating so much, that they are blending together. I can listen to current bands today (couldn't tell you the names) from my friends and notice the different influences. I do not stay up to speed with current artists these days that my peers seem to adhere to (whatever MTV shows). maybe I should, just to see what the fuck everyone is listening to.
(i honestly use wikipedia to find new bands/music, and i rarely, RARELY buy a new cd that recently came out. example: I'm about to buy rythym and stealth by Leftfield, even though I've owned Leftism for years)