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Ambient music
Stylistic origins	20th century classical music Electronic art music Minimalist music Psychedelic Rock Krautrock Space rock
Cultural origins	1970s, UK
Typical instruments	Electronic musical instruments, Electroacoustic music instruments, and any other instruments or sounds (including World instruments) with electronic processing
Mainstream popularity	Small, mainly based in the European Union
Derivative forms	Ambient house - Ambient techno - New Age - Chillout - Downtempo
Subgenres
Dark ambient - Drone music - Lowercase - Black ambient
Fusion genres
Ambient dub - Illbient - Psybient - Ambient industrial -Ambient house - Space music
Other topics
Ambient music artists - List of electronic music genres - Furniture music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbral characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric",^[1] "visual"^[2] or "unobtrusive" quality. Ambient evolved from the early 20th century music of the impressionists, composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and minimalist composers of the 1960s and 1970s to rock musician Brian Eno, who is responsible for coining the phrase ambient music in the manifesto liner notes of his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports.^[3]

Ambient music has influenced many other genres, most remarkably some forms of rhythmic music presented in chill-out rooms at raves and other dance events, with the intention of creating an calmer, relaxed atmosphere for ravers to take a break from dancing.^[4]

Contents 1 History 2 Influences on other genres 3 Soundtracks 4 Related and derivative genres 4.1 Ambient dub 4.2 Organic ambient music 4.3 Nature inspired ambient music 4.4 Dark ambient 4.5 Ambient techno 4.6 Ambient house 4.7 Ambient industrial 4.8 Space music 4.9 Isolationist ambient music 5 Notable musicians and works in chronological order 6 Notable films incorporating ambient music or sound design 7 Notable ambient-music shows on radio and via satellite 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

[edit] History

Early 20th century French composer Erik Satie created an early form of ambient music that he referred to as "furniture music" (Musique d'ameublement), in reference to something that could be played during a dinner whose sound would simply create an atmosphere for that activity rather than be the specific focus of attention.^[5]

Brian Eno is generally credited with coining the term "ambient music" in the mid-1970s to refer to music that, as he stated, can be either "actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener", and that exists on the "cusp between melody and texture."^[5] Eno, who describes himself as a "non-musician", termed his experiments in sound as "treatments" rather than as traditional performances. Eno used the word "ambient" to describe music that creates an atmosphere that puts the listener into a different state of mind; having chosen the word based on the Latin term "ambire", "to surround".^[6]

The liner notes of Eno's 1978 release Ambient 1: Music for Airports includes a manifesto describing his philosophy of ambient music:

"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."Brian Eno, Music for Airports liner notes, September 1978

Eno has acknowledged the influence of Erik Satie and John Cage, in particular Cage's use of chance such as throwing the I Ching to direct a musical composition; and minimalist music in general. This influence was manifested in Oblique Strategies, a set of cards devised by Eno and Peter Schmidt and intended to direct the musician or artist when a dilemma occurred in a working situation. Eno used the term "ambient music" to distance his work from elevator music and Muzak. Eno also acknowledged influences of the mood music of Miles Davis and Teo Macero, especially their 1974 epic piece, "He Loved Him Madly", about which Eno wrote, "that piece seemed to have the 'spacious' quality that I was after...it became a touchstone to which I returned frequently."^[6]

Early albums such as Ummagumma by Pink Floyd and by the "kosmische Musik"-oriented krautrock artists, like Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, and Cluster have greatly influenced the genre^{[citation needed]}. Among the first electronic ambient albums were Affenstunde (1970) and In Den Garten Pharaos (1971) by Popol Vuh. Other notable albums include Sonic Seasonings (1972) by Wendy Carlos and L'apocalypse des Animaux (1973; recorded in 1970) by Vangelis. Additional early artists, such as Klaus Schulze (a former member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel), Jean Michel Jarre, and Kraftwerk in the 1970s and 1980s, were influential^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Influences on other genres

By the early 1990s artists such as the The Orb, Aphex Twin, Slowdive, the Irresistible Force, Geir Jenssen's Biosphere, and the Higher Intelligence Agency were being referred to by the popular music press as ambient house, ambient techno, IDM or simply "ambient".^{[citation needed]}

Early Warp records artists, (as well as later ones such as Aphex Twin), FSOL Future Sound of London (Lifeforms, ISDN) Autechre, (Incunabula, Amber), Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Portishead, and The KLF all took a part in popularising and diversifying ambient music.^{[citation needed]}

Chillout is generally linked to club culture and is sometimes used as a term which includes ambient music as a subset of itself.^{[citation needed]} UK techno developed in particular at Warp Records in Sheffield, where previous electronic pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire and Autechre laid the groundwork for ambient techno to develop, and for Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada to develop later^{[citation needed]}. Intelligent Dance Music is another term synonymous with this scene^{[citation needed]}. Glitch music is a subset of this work.^{[citation needed]} Some club groups have created live ambient music, mixing dub techniques with ambient textures and dance grooves.

Several second-wave black metal artists (most notably Burzum) experimented with dark ambient textures on some of their albums. The two genres still remain linked, however loosely, to this day, as evidenced by the music of Xasthur.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Soundtracks

Ambient music has been used in many video games, television shows and motion pictures and is notable for contributing to their atmosphere, or soundscapes. David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, for example, forgoes the epic sci-fi adventure style theme music popularized by Star Wars in favor of a more atmospheric music score by Toto and Brian Eno. Electronic musician Paddy Kingsland is noted for the music style he brought to several serials of the television series Doctor Who which had until then relied mostly on stock music cues or minimal music for much of its history. The video game trilogy Fallout and its spinoffs use ambient music that sometimes contains gentle rumblings to portray the bleakness of the post-apocalyptic world which the games are set in.

[edit] Related and derivative genres

[edit] Ambient dub

Ambient Dub was a phrase first coined by the now defunct Beyond record label from early 1990s in Birmingham, England. Their defining series of albums "Ambient Dub 1, 2, through to 4" inspired many, including sound engineer and producer Bill Laswell, who used the same phrase in his music project Divination, where he collaborates with different musicians on each album (though sometimes the same ones are on more than one of the albums such as Tetsu Inoue and others). Laswell also presented Ambient dub and Ambient house music on albums by his collaboration project Axiom Dub, featuring recording artists the Orb, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and DJ Spooky.

Ambient dub involves the genre melding of dub styles made famous by King Tubby and other Jamaican sound artists with DJ inspired ambient electronica, complete with all the inherent drop-outs, echo, equalization and psychedelic electronic effects. As writer and performer David Toop explains in an early Beyond Records newsletter, "Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational order of musical sequences into an ocean of sensation."

[edit] Organic ambient music

Organic ambient music is characterised by integration of electronic, electric, and acoustic musical instruments. Aside from the usual electronic music influences, organic ambient tends to incorporate influences from world music, especially drone instruments and hand percussion. Organic ambient is intended to be more harmonious with nature than with the disco. Some of the artists in this sub-genre include Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, O Yuki Conjugate, Ma Ja Le, Neal Merrick Blackwood, Vir Unis, James Johnson, Loren Nerell, Tuu and Robert Scott Thompson.

Some works by ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno, Laraaji or Popul Vuh who use a combination of traditional instruments (such as piano or hammered dulcimer or hand percussion, though usually processed through tape loops or other devices) and electronic instruments, would be considered organic ambient music in this sense. In the 70s and 80s Klaus Schulze often recorded string ensembles and performances by solo cellists to go along with his extended Moog synthesizer workouts.

[edit] Nature inspired ambient music

The music is composed from samples and recordings of naturally occurring sounds. Sometimes these samples can be treated to make them more instrument-like. The samples may be arranged in repetitive ways to form a conventional musical structure or may be random and unfocused. Sometimes the sound is mixed with urban or "found" sounds. Examples include much of Biosphere's Substrata, Mira Calix's insect music and Chris Watson's Weather Report. Some overlap occurs between organic ambient and nature inspired ambient. One of the first albums in the genre, Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings, combines sampled and synthesized nature sounds with ambient melodies and drones for a particularly relaxing effect. The album Second Nature by Bill Laswell, Tetsu Inoue, and Atom Heart is an ambient album that uses processed nature sounds, with reverb and echo to create a hypnotic environment. Aquatemple has contributed to the hybridization of these genres with their debut album Opulent Oceanic Odyssey. Aquatemple has been credited for birthing "Aquatica" as a new sub genre within ambient music.

[edit] Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a general term for any kind of ambient music with a "dark" or dissonant feel, but often involves extensive use of digital reverb to create vast sonic spaces for frightening, bottom-heavy sounds such as deep drones, gloomy male chorus, echoing thunder, and distant artillery. It has an eerie feel; the term "Isolationist Ambient" could be used interchangeably with it according to the listener or artists perspective. Some artists and releases that epitomize the style could include Yen Pox, Randy Grief, Archon Satani, Lull's Cold Summer, Controlled Bleeding's The Poisoner, and the Robert Rich/Lustmord collaboration album Stalker. Related styles include ambient industrial and isolationist ambient. (See also List of dark ambient artists)

There are also a few black metal bands, such as Burzum and Beherit, who produce ambient music, albeit not always with such a dark atmosphere. Illbient is another kind of dark ambient music that has more of a beat but still creates the spooky disturbing feelings.

[edit] Ambient techno

A rarefied, more specific re-orientation of ambient house, ambient techno is usually applied to artists such as B12, early Aphex Twin, the Black Dog, Higher Intelligence Agency, and Biosphere. It distinguished artists who combined the melodic and rhythmic approaches of techno and electro—use of drum machines; well-produced, thin-sounding electronics; minor-key melodies and alien-sounding samples and sounds—with the soaring, layered, aquatic atmospheres of beatless and experimental ambient music. Most often associated with labels such as Apollo, GPR, Warp, and Beyond, the terminology morphed into "intelligent techno" after Warp released its Artificial Intelligence series, although the music's stylistic references remained largely unchanged.

[edit] Ambient house

Ambient house is a musical category founded in the late 1980s that is used to describe acid house featuring ambient music elements and atmospheres. Tracks in the ambient house genre typically feature four-on-the-floor beats, synth pads, and vocal samples integrated in an atmospheric style.^[7] Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords.

[edit] Ambient industrial

Ambient industrial is a hybrid genre of ambient and industrial music; the term industrial being used in the original experimental sense, rather than in the sense of industrial metal or EBM. A "typical" ambient industrial work (if there is a such thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms, bullroarers, distorted voices and/or anything else the artist might care to sample (often processed to the point where the original sample is no longer recognizable). Entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings, the babbling of newborn babies, or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires.

Among the many artists who work in this area are Coil, CTI, Lustmord, Susumu Yokota, Hafler Trio, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, PGR, Thomas Köner, Controlled Bleeding, and Deutsch Nepal. However many of these artists are very eclectic in their output, with much of it falling outside of ambient industrial per se.

[edit] Space music

Space music, also spelled spacemusic, includes music from the Ambient genre as well as a broad range of other genres with certain characteristics in common to create the experience of contemplative spaciousness.^[8][9][10] Space music ranges from simple to complex sonic textures sometimes lacking conventional melodic, rhythmic, or vocal components,^[11][12] generally evoking a sense of "continuum of spatial imagery and emotion",^[13] beneficial introspection, deep listening^[14] and sensations of floating, cruising or flying.^[15][16]

Space music is used by individuals for both background enhancement and foreground listening, often with headphones, to stimulate relaxation, contemplation, inspiration and generally peaceful expansive moods^[17] and soundscapes. Space music is also a component of many film soundtracks, commonly used in planetariums, and used as a relaxation aid and for meditation.^[18]

Hearts of Space is a well-known radio show and affiliated record label, specializing in Space Music since 1984, having released over 150 albums devoted to the music style. Notable artists who have brought elements of Ambient music to Space music include Michael Stearns, Constance Demby, Jean Michel Jarre, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Numina, Dweller at the Threshold, Deepspace, Telomere, Jonn Serrie, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream (as well as the group's founder Edgar Froese).

[edit] Isolationist ambient music

Isolationist ambient music is also known as isolationism, which can be differentiated from other forms of ambient music in its use of repetition, dissonance, microtonality, and unresolved harmonies to create a sense of unresolved unease and desolation.^[19] The term was popularized in the mid-1990s by the British magazine The Wire and the Ambient 4: Isolationism compilation from Virgin, this began as more or less a synonym for ambient industrial, but also inclusive of certain post-metal streams of ambient, such as Final, Lull, Main, Sleep Research Facility, or post-techno artists such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. It may be less appropriate to call Isolationist Ambient a genre than than using it to describe the style or "feel" of particular works by an artist working in an ambient mode. This is because many artists better known for other styles of work can occasionally create pieces that "sound" Isolationist. (For example; Labradford, Seefeel, Techno Animal, Voice Of Eye, KK Null, etc.)^[20] There are many labels releasing work that could be termed Isolationist Ambient, among these are Malignant Records, Cold Spring, Manifold Records, Soleilmoon, Dark Vinyl, and The Sombient label with the "drones" compilation series. Some of the artists known for this style of ambient music include Lull, Final, Deutsch Nepal, Inanna, Negru Voda, Sleep Research Facility, Thomas Koner, Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer Guitarchitecture.

[edit] Notable musicians and works in chronological order

Artist name	Influential works
Erik Satie	1917 - Furniture music (1) 1920 - Furniture music (2) 1923 - Furniture music (3)
Popol Vuh	1970 - Affenstunde 1971 - In den Gärten Pharaos
Cluster	1971 - Cluster 1972 - Cluster II 1974 - Zuckerzeit 1976 - Soweisoso 1977 - Cluster & Eno (with Brian Eno) 1978 - After The Heat (with Brian Eno) 1979 - Grosses Wasser 1981 - Curiosum 1991 - Apropos Cluster 1995 - One Hour
Tangerine Dream	1971 - Alpha Centauri 1972 - Zeit 1974 - Phaedra 1975 - Rubycon 1975 - Ricochet 1976 - Stratosfear — 2000 - The Seven Letters from Tibet
Wendy Carlos	1972 - Sonic Seasonings
Klaus Schulze	1972 - Irrlicht 1973 - Cyborg 1974 - Blackdance 1975 - Timewind 1976 - Moondawn 1977 - Mirage 1977 - Body Love Vol. 2 1978 - X 1979 - Dune 1995 - In Blue — With Pete Namlook: 1994 - Dark Side of the Moog I - Wish you were there 1994 - Dark Side of the Moog II - A saucerful of ambience 2002 - Dark Side of the Moog IX - Set the controls for the heart of the mother 2005 - Dark Side of the Moog X - Astro know me domina
Can	1973 - Future Days 1974 - Soon Over Babaluma
Gong	1973 - Flying Teapot for "The Octave Doctors and the Crystal Machine" 1974 - You for "A Sprinkling of Clouds"
Fripp & Brian Eno	1973 - No Pussyfooting 1975 - Evening Star 2005 - The Equatorial Stars
Kraftwerk	1975 - Radio-Activity
Harmonia	1974 - Musik Von Harmonia 1997 - Tracks and Traces
Neu!	1975 - Neu! '75
Brian Eno	1975 - Another Green World 1975 - Discreet Music 1978 - Ambient 1 / Music For Airports 1980 - Fourth World 1 / Possible Musics (with Jon Hassell) 1982 - Ambient 4 / On Land 1983 - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks 1985 - Thursday Afternoon 1992 - The Shutov Assembly 1993 - Neroli
Jean Michel Jarre	1976 - Oxygène 1978 - Equinoxe 1990 - Waiting for Cousteau
Chuck Hammer	1977 - Guitarchitecture
Michael Stearns	1978 - Ancient Leaves 1979 - Morning Jewel 1981 - Planetary Unfolding 1984 - M'ocean 1988 - Encounter 2000 - Within
Erik Wollo	1985 - Traces 1986 - Silver Beach (re-release 2006) 1990 - Images of Light 1992 - Solstice 1996 - Transit 1998 - Guitar Nova 2001 - Wind Journey 2003 - Emotional Landscapes 2003 - The Polar Drones 2004 - Blue Sky, Red Guitars 2007 - Elevations
Earthstar	1978 - Salterbarty Tales 1981 - Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! 1982 - Humans Only
Robert Fripp	1981 - Let The Power Fall 1998 - Gates Of Paradise
Robert Rich	1982 - Sunyata 1983 - Trances 1983 - Drones 1987 - Numena 1992 - Soma (with Steve Roach) 1997 - Fissures 2001 - Somnium
Steve Roach	1984 - Structures from Silence 1988 - Quiet Music 1988 - Dreamtime Return 1993 - Origins 1994 - Artifacts 1996 - The Magnificent Void 2000 - Early Man 2003 - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Coil	1984 - How to Destroy Angels 1998 - Time Machines
Hirokazu Tanaka	1986 - Metroid
The KLF	1990 - Chill Out
Enigma	1990 - MCMXC A.D.
The Orb	1991 - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld 1992 - U.F.Orb
Biosphere	1992 - Microgravity 1994 - Patashnik 1996 - Polar Sequences (with Higher Intelligence Agency) 1997 - Insomnia 1997 - Substrata 1998 - Nordheim Transformed (with Deathprod) 2000 - Birmingham Frequencies (with Higher Intelligence Agency) 2000 - Cirque 2002 - Shenzhou 2004 - Autour de la lune 2006 - Dropsonde
Brunette Models	1995 - 97 - Magnus luctus in ergastulo - The first album 1999 - Apsychastenia - The second album 2000 - Impressions of whispers - The third album 2004 - R E E D I T I O N 6th International Music Presentations of Ambient 2 0 0 4 2008 - Last poem - The fifth album
Aphex Twin	1992 - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1994 - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Pete Namlook	1992 - Silence I 1993 - Air I 1994 - Air II 1996 - Outland 2 (with Bill Laswell) 1996 - The Fires of Ork (with Geir Jensen of Biosphere)
Moby aka Voodoo Child	1993 - Ambient 1996 - The End of Everything (as Voodoo Child) 2005 - Hotel:Ambient (Disc Two) (limited edition only)
Neptune Towers (Gylve Nagell aka Fenriz)	1994 - Caravans to Empire Algol 1995 - Transmissions from Empire Algol
Kenji Yamamoto	1994 - Super Metroid
Robert Leiner	1994 - Visions of the past
Global Communication	1994 - 76:14
Alpha Wave Movement	1995 - Transcendence 2000 - Drifted Into Deeper Lands
Burzum (Varg Vikernes)	1996 - Filosofem (tracks 4 to 6) 1997 - Dauði Baldrs (Balder's Død) 1999 - Hliðskjálf
Future Sound of London	1994 - Lifeforms
Richard Bone	1998 - The Spectral Ships 1999 - Ether Dome
Stars of the Lid	1996 - Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life 1997 - The Ballasted Orchestra 1998 - Per Aspera Ad Astra 1999 - Avec Laudenum 2001 - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid 2007 - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline
Marvin Ayres	1999 - Cellosphere 2002 - Neptune
Ishq	2001 - Ishq 2001 - Orchid
William Basinski	2002 - The River 2002-2003 - Disintegration Loops I, II, III and IV
Robert Scott Thompson	1996 - The Silent Shore 1998 - Frontier 2002 - Sidereal 2005 - At the Still Point of the Turning World 2008 - Frozen Light

- Secret and Whisper

 2008 - Great White Whale

[edit] Notable films incorporating ambient music or sound design

Film	Director	Composer or Sound Designer	Comments
1956 - Forbidden Planet	Fred Wilcox	Louis and Bebe Barron (electronic tonalities)	This soundtrack is generally considered to be ahead of its time with its spacey ambient sounds
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	György Ligeti (composer "Monolith" and "Beyond Saturn" themes) Winston Ryder (sound editor)	"A cutting edge ambient, multimedia accomplishment...the ambient revolution, now and for the past couple of decades, owes much of its impetus to the achievement of 2001." — D.B. Spalding[21]
1971 - THX 1138	George Lucas	Lalo Schifrin (composer) Walter Murch (sound design)	Murch's "Theater of Noise" offered as alternate soundtrack on Director's Cut DVD
1972 - Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes	Werner Herzog	Popol Vuh (composer)
1976 - Sebastiane	Derek Jarman	Brian Eno (composer)
1977 - Eraserhead	David Lynch	Alan Splet (sound design)	Features innovative ambient noise sound design as its musical score.
1977 - Sorcerer	William Friedkin	Tangerine Dream (Composer)
1980 - The Elephant Man	David Lynch	Alan Splet (sound design)
1981 - Halloween II	Rick Rosenthal	John Carpenter (composer) & Alan Howarth (synthesizer programmer)
1982 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch	Tommy Lee Wallace	John Carpenter (composer) & Alan Howarth (synthesizer programmer)
1984 - Starman	John Carpenter	Jack Nitzsche (composer)
1986 - The Hitcher	Robert Harmon	Mark Isham (composer)
1989 - For All Mankind	Al Reinert	Brian Eno (composer)	Score released as Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
1989 - Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh	Cliff Martinez (composer)	Soderbergh's instructions to Martinez were to channel Brian Eno. Soundtrack on Virgin/EMI Records
1992 - Alien³	David Fincher	Elliot Goldenthal
1997 - Insomnia	Erik Skjoldbjærg	Biosphere (composer)
2001 - Donnie Darko	Richard Kelly	Michael Andrews (musician) (composer)
2001 - Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	Cliff Martinez (composer) Brian Eno (composer- end title theme)	End title theme is "An Ending (Ascent)" from Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
2002 - Solaris	Steven Soderbergh	Cliff Martinez (composer)
2005 - Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July	Michael Andrews (musician) (composer)
2006 - The Prestige (film)	Christopher Nolan	David Julyan (composer)
2006 - Silent Hill	Christophe Gans	Akira Yamaoka (composer)
2007 - 30 Days of Night	David Slade	Brian Reitzell (composer)

[edit] Notable ambient-music shows on radio and via satellite

• Echoes, is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, spacemusic, electronica, new acoustic and new music directions - founded in 1989 and syndicated on 130 radio stations in the USA.
• Hearts of Space, a program hosted by Stephen Hill and broadcast on NPR in the US since 1973.^[22][23]
• Musical Starstreams, a US-based commercial radio station and internet program produced, programmed and hosted by Forest since 1981.
• Star's End a radio show on 88.5 WXPN, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1976, it is the second longest-running ambient music radio show in the world.^[24]
• Ultima Thule Ambient Music, a weekly 90-minute show broadcast since 1989 on community radio across Australia. saeed
• Ambient Zone, a weekly 2-hour radio show broadcast on RTRFM in Perth since 1994.^[25]

[edit] See also

Background music Black ambient Drone music Glitch Incidental music

Intelligent dance music (IDM) Minimalist music List of ambient artists List of dark ambient artists List of electronic music genres

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ambient Techno in Sound on Sound
• Ambient Music Guide Comprehensive ambient music resource site.

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