My initial thought is that there have been any number of more 'mainstream'
acts incorporating some of the sonic elements of idm into their music
for some time. Radiohead got noticed because their fundamental sound,
premised on a rock dynamics and structures, changed so markedly with Kid-A.
Acts such as, say, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Orbital, Underworld have been
knocking around the edges of the mainstream for a good while, elaborating on
a template forged in the club/rave culture of the early 90s. Arguably these
artists have done more to dispose a mass audience to aspects of the sound of
idm, but I would't say that it could be regarded as 'taking idm into the
mainstream' any more than Craig Armstrong is taking classical late-romanticism
into the mainstream or Massive Attack is taking dub into the mainstream.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that artists in the 'mainstream' (a rather
woolly concept anyway) are just drawing more eclectically from a pool of sonic
resources which are associated with particular sub-genres?
alan/beyond...sound
Quoting Oneaphex@aol.com:
quoted 5 lines Radiohead is taking idm into the mainstream. what are your thoughts list?>
> Radiohead is taking idm into the mainstream. what are your thoughts list?
>
> np: amnesiac
>
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