IDM Goes Pop?

2005/06: euro club/ dark disco/rave

2007 ish: disco pop/new wave

2008/09: techno/electro

2010: euro trance/synth pop

2011: dubstep/hip house/dutch techno

2012: progressive electro/dubstep/caribbean/

2013: trap... industrial.. garage... grime.. gabber?

2014: .... IDM?

not judging this potential phenomenon one way or another or that it's likely to happen, just seems like something i could see the kanye's and the pharell's and the jay z's getting all hyped up as the next big electronic music subgenre trend picked up by the mainstream...

although it could likely be trip hop, dnb, jungle, whatever... italo disco...

thoughts?

would that be scary? ...cool? f*cked? what would/could that be like? would idm fans abandon their fav genre if that happened?.. embrace it even more?... ridiculous to even consider?

of course, im not saying idm would go pop per so, but that mainstream pop producers/artists could infuse their styles with remnants. we're already starting to hear a lotta glitchyness, distorted bass and heavy bitcrushing in top 40 music... never know lol

IDM already went pop in the 90's.

Its all over, the dream is over, move on.

  On 6/26/2013 at 12:44 AM, Deer said:

IDM already went pop in the 90's.

 

Its all over, the dream is over, move on.

ya but so did euro techno in the 90s.. and it just recently came back full fledge and even harder ha

trends recycle

I'm going for -

2014: Brunkcore

2015: Hyperflex/Crowded House

2016: Soundflange

2017: Skankle

2018: Umbridge/Un-rave

2019: Phunt Metal

2020: Dune'd / Macro

ARTPOP 2013 GAGA IDM DOMINATRIX

also come to brazil

  On 6/26/2013 at 12:56 AM, mcbpete said:

I'm going for -

 

2014: Brunkcore

2015: Hyperflex/Crowded House

2016: Soundflange

2017: Skankle

2018: Umbridge/Un-rave

2019: Phunt Metal

2020: Dune'd / Macro

Lolol!

  On 6/26/2013 at 12:56 AM, mcbpete said:

I'm going for -

 

2014: Brunkcore

2015: Hyperflex/Crowded House

2016: Soundflange

2017: Skankle

2018: Umbridge/Un-rave

2019: Phunt Metal

2020: Dune'd / Macro

lol

That new bieber ft noisea & william basinski is S0000 UN-RAVE!!!!

  On 6/26/2013 at 1:04 AM, Lane Visitor said:

That new bieber ft noisea & william basinski is S0000 UN-RAVE!!!!

bieber will be already dead of AIDS in 2018.

I think the predictability of trends recycling, especially the 20 year cycle (50s rock revival in 70s, 60s motown and soul nostalgia in 80s, 70s disco and rock in 90s, 80s music of all genres in 00s, current 90s techno and dance revival in electronic music) is starting to fall apart - the 90s was the beginning of postmodern pop (sampling explosion in pop and underground music in various genres) anyway. I think it'll be a free-for-all completely soon, once there's a revival of late 90s alt rock and every indie buzzband starts playing Semisonic and Matchbox Twenty ballads and make Smash Mouth's "All Star" a riddim sampled more often than the Amen Break at which point pop music will create a cultural wormhole.

Also, it's safe to say generally accepted sounds and aesthetics of "IDM" show up in a lot of different releases pretty often now.

yes but wouldnt it be cool if aphex twin released a new album

  On 6/26/2013 at 1:18 AM, Rulohead32 said:

yes but wouldnt it be cool if aphex twin released a new album

i wouldnt mind that (:

oh btw i heard from a neighbor's friend of my aunt's dog's best friend that someone mentioned at a little pub in cornwall that polygon window is coming out with something new soon..

  On 6/26/2013 at 1:10 AM, joshuatx said:

I think the predictability of trends recycling, especially the 20 year cycle (50s rock revival in 70s, 60s motown and soul nostalgia in 80s, 70s disco and rock in 90s, 80s music of all genres in 00s, current 90s techno and dance revival in electronic music) is starting to fall apart - the 90s was the beginning of postmodern pop (sampling explosion in pop and underground music in various genres) anyway. I think it'll be a free-for-all completely soon, once there's a revival of late 90s alt rock and every indie buzzband starts playing Semisonic and Matchbox Twenty ballads and make Smash Mouth's "All Star" a riddim sampled more often than the Amen Break at which point pop music will create a cultural wormhole.

wow, thats actually a brilliant hypothesis.. i can't help but agree with you.. i've just been waiting til 90s grunge and alt make a comeback, as im sure theyre going to real soon.. and you're right, after that, what else is left to be recycled? maybe rap/metal and bling hip hop, but after that, we'd have already swallowed ourselves and there would be no more decades to recycle.. we're moving so quickly, we're gonna fall into a wormhole ahhh!! haha

this song came out in 2001 by Michael Jackson, scroll to 4:14 for a lot of glitching/idm fills

^ is that luke vibert and squarepusher on the beat?

  On 6/26/2013 at 1:23 AM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 6/26/2013 at 1:18 AM, Rulohead32 said:

yes but wouldnt it be cool if aphex twin released a new album

 

i wouldnt mind that (:

 

oh btw i heard from a neighbor's friend of my aunt's dog's best friend that someone mentioned at a little pub in cornwall that polygon window is coming out with something new soon..

 

Seems legit

flol

Phunt Metal sounds like the title of a track of Analords

Yeah, Björk made IDM mainstream. Eveything was a lie. Everyone thought Björk was so innovating and shit, when Mr. RDJ is one of his favorite producers.

I Don't Mind

  On 6/26/2013 at 12:56 AM, mcbpete said:

I'm going for -2014: Brunkcore2015: Hyperflex/Crowded House2016: Soundflange2017: Skankle2018: Umbridge/Un-rave2019: Phunt Metal2020: Dune'd / Macro

It's all one big m-f@cking macro.

Bjork can wail like a motherfuckin' innovator an' shit. I heard that shit.

bjork is a shit singer, there I said it

and anyway music's over, we can shut down the board now