Fight

I see glitch and "protools"-pop as being synthetical rather than antithetical, and not just because glitch is increasingly sculpted and tailor-made. Surely shiny pop has been incorporating allusions of mistakes for ages - most obvious example might be the deliberate computerised muck-ups of the vocals in "Believe". I reckon this tendency will grow as artists and producers have to cast further afield for inventive sounds.

Beginnings of a theory - Glitch is to IDM what acid house was to house: at once the establishment of a sub-genre around a machine "mistake" (only this time on a digital rather than analogue level) and a sound that can be positively identified and automatically associated with the genre from which it springs. As with the 303 sound, I imagine the glitch will become increasingly normalised, both musically and conceptually, potentially becoming merely another component in a lot of pop and mainstream dance.