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AmbientMusicGuide.com - A Guide To Essential Ambient & Downtempo Albums

AmbientMusicGuide.com - A Guide To Essential Ambient & Downtempo Albums
A-Z essential releases & artists What AmbientMusicGuide.com is all about - personal reviews & recommendations of great ambient, downtempo and chillout albums from the 1960s to the present day. Reviews update Feb 2014: J D Emmanuel (all new) Upper Astral (all new) Cliff Martinez (updated) Special features & interviews Latest addition: an interview with Steve Roach on the 30th Anniversray of his ambient classic Structures From Silence.

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What's That Sound? The Rhythm That Ruled 2011 There's one sound that pretty much dominated pop music this year. Monster hits by LMFAO, Adele, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears and more all relied on the hammering beat known as "four-on-the-floor." "You feel it in your whole body, just on every beat: boom, boom, boom, boom," says Jordan Roseman. "It's so easy to understand, it's almost hard not to move to it." Roseman, better known as DJ Earworm, is intimately familiar with these songs and their matching beats. He mixed them all together in his annual mashup of the year's biggest pop hits, a series he calls "The United State of Pop."

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