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This is a list of ambient music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those who have been on a major label).
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music and even noise. It is chiefly identifiable as having an overarching atmospheric context.
Brian Eno (/ ˈ iː n oʊ /, born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. [1]
Ambient techno is a music category emerging in the late 1980s that is used to describe ambient music atmospheres with the rhythmic and melodic elements of techno. [74] Notable artists include Aphex Twin , B12 , Autechre , and the Black Dog .
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut studio album by the British electronic music artist and producer Richard D. James under the alias of Aphex Twin. It was released on 9 November 1992 through Apollo Records , a subsidiary of the Belgian label R&S Records .
It was released on February 25, 2016, as a free download on his Little Pine restaurant Web site and his own Web site. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album consists of around four hours of recordings Moby produced for his own personal listening, which he subsequently made available for downloading and streaming without cost or licensing. [ 2 ]
Ambient music design is a fusion of original film score and sound design. It has elements of Ambient music and Drone music and is supposed to complement a specific scene or the entire movie, TV-series or video game. The term was invented by Mel Wesson and Hans Zimmer in early 2000 when working on Hannibal and has since become a niche for Mel ...
This means music that is intended to blend into the ambient atmosphere of the room rather than be directly focused upon. Like Satie's notion of music that could "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner", Discreet Music was created to play in, and blend with, the subtle background audio of various, or any given, situation. [3]