this was also the vibe I got, although I thought it was misplaced -- ie, the really great electronic group that was popular with the casuals, as opposed to the cheesy dilettantes that tourists got into. In all honesty I'd rank them somewhere in between those two poles -- they're not venerated beloved elders like Kraftwerk or KLF but they're not the bullshit that got yoked into every 90s movie that needed an electronica break because hackers were at the club onscreen (looking at you, Josh Wink). Thievery is like the Cars: the rock kids like 'em, the new wave kids like 'em, the punks like 'em. Not the field biologists, though