2/2 even contacted the legend Brian Eno himself for the production of "Souvlaki" and his involvment was a very good decision by Neil. Also, there are IDM collabs: I remember an AFX and Squarepsuher one and AFX and Autechre. There may be more too. And yeah, the last part is 10000% agreeable.
Touche. I'm still looking for a (very, very slight) Boards of Canada traversal towards in their music. I love Geogaddi and it's style. I really would like to borrow some of those sounds. and do something awesome with them.