electronica is spreading?

[holden]

It ebbs and flows. In the US, i guess it depends on your region and your friends... lots of great scenes, but mostly underground. Not too many people getting excited in the pop culture about EDM, not even post-electronica poster boy Moby. When i travel, i'm always enjoying the fact that many places favor dance music to a much greater extent. Fun to hear it on the tv and in the clubs.

But with new material from Prodigy, Crystal Method, Royksopp, (maybe) Orbital, Moby...there's a bit of traction.

As for what's new and innovative in electronic music, i couldn't say. I was really into breakbeat/prog breaks ~2005-06 and those acts, but got burnt out on it. I still have a lot of loyalty for Underworld and Chemical Brothers, awaiting new material from Hybrid, Way Out West and Orbital, and wishing in my heart o' hearts for Fluke to reform. Otherwise, i revisit my friends in the record collection and enjoy hearing undiscovered artists in the netlabel sphere (usually of the ambient/experimental genre).