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Ambient music. Ambient music includes forms of music that put an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

Ambient music

Ambient music is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual"[2] or "unobtrusive" quality.[3] To quote one pioneer, Brian Eno, "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. "[4] As a genre it originated in the United Kingdom at a time when new sound-making devices such as the synthesizer, were being introduced to a wider market. Ambient developed in the 1970s from the experimental and synthesizer-oriented styles of the period. Ambient had a revival towards the late 1980s with the prominence of house and techno music.

History[edit] As a genre, ambient music usually focuses on creating a mood or atmosphere through synthesizers and timbral qualities. Eno has acknowledged the influence of Erik Satie and John Cage. Aphex Twin. Moby. Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965),[1] known by his stage name Moby, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer.

Moby

He is well known for his electronic music, vegan lifestyle, and support of animal rights. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.[2] Allmusic considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America".[3] Biography[edit] Early life and name[edit] Hall was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the son of Elizabeth McBride (née Warner), a medical secretary, and James Frederick Hall (deceased), a chemistry professor.[6][7][8] He was raised by his mother in Darien, Connecticut.[9][10] He has released music under the names "Voodoo Child",[12] "Schaumgummi",[13] as a member of the bands Vatican Commandos, AWOL, Caeli Seoul, and Gin Train. Rabbit in the Moon. Rabbit in the Moon was an American electronic music group.

Rabbit in the Moon

Their style draws from psychedelic trance, house music and breakbeat, along with other diverse influences. Richie Hawtin. Richard "Richie" Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a English-born Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and a leading exponent of Minimal techno since the mid-1990s.[1] He is best known for his work under the alias Plastikman and for his ENTER. events in Ibiza and around the world.

Richie Hawtin

The Orb. Massive Attack. The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards.[4][5] They have released 5 studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

Massive Attack

History[edit] In the nineties, the trio became known for often not being able to easily get along with one another and working increasingly separately. Andy Vowles (Mushroom), who had once thought of himself as the trio's musical director, acrimoniously left Massive Attack in late 1999, after an ultimatum from the other two members to end the group immediately if he did not.

Despite having taken Del Naja's side in the effective firing of Vowles and then participating in a show-of-unity webcast as a duo the following year, Grant Marshall (G) had also effectively left by 2001 in that he abandoned the studio altogether. Marshall returned to a studio role in 2005, having joined the touring line-up in 2003/4.[13] Orbital (band) The first two albums are commonly known as "The Green Album" and "The Brown Album", after the colours of their covers.[3] Crucially, 1994 was the first year to feature intensive TV broadcasting from Glastonbury meaning that Orbital's set reached a huge audience.

Orbital (band)

Speaking to The Guardian in 2013 about the gig, Paul Hartnol commented: "I didn't know how much of an impact it would have. Being young myself, I just thought, 'It's about time – of course we should have acid house at Glastonbury'. Goldfrapp. The Future Sound of London. The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain (sometimes styled as Gaz Cobain) and Brian Dougans.

The Future Sound of London

The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music.[1][2][3] Although often labelled as ambient, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre. Their work covers most areas of electronic music, such as ambient techno, house music, trip-hop, ambient dub, acid techno. [4] In addition to music composition, their interests have covered a number of areas including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles, radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making.[5][6] They have released works under numerous aliases.