is that possible? people that like more underground tend to hate on mainstream stuff.

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i think there is a few out there that are respected by both.

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Originally posted by 16YearOlTerror i think thers only a few out there. ill name 1.. pryda

quality thread again.

But, on topic it depends what you mean by underground, cos as a rule anything that is liked by a single person of the 'mainstream' is then hated by the 'underground' people who often aren't nearly as underground as they'd like to think they are.

Define underground/mainstream.

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About 9 or 10 years ago, Paul van Dyk had massive respect across the board. There wasn't such a mainstream scene as such, so the extremes weren't so far apart anyway.

These days the mainstream might just as well be in the same league as your regular pop star. Those that remain 'underground' are so far apart in what they do, and more importantly WHY they do it, that you could pretty much say that they are part of something entirely different. In that respect I don't think you can really say one DJ can belong in both categories.

I saw it all going wrong when Pringles started giving away holidays to Ibiza on the back of their cans back in 2000. I knew it was all going down the pan then...............

oliver lieb, liam howlett, moby

perhaps trentemöller? i dunno.

oliver lieb ain't respected by the mainstream, but liam is a good example i think

also maybe aphex twin and massive attack, though they don't quite fall into the dance part in edm..

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Daft Punk and Underworld.

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Originally posted by a98 oliver lieb ain't respected by the mainstream, but liam is a good example i think

depends on what mainstream we talk about, do we talk about mainstream edm (avb, tiesto etc) or just mainstream (mtv,viva). of course u dont hear oliver lieb on mtv but u find oliver lieb tracks in all djs playlist the last 10 years almost no mather what genre we talk about within edm and who can forget utah saints - last vaugness?

btw chemical brothers and fatboy slim