Ambient music - Ambient music The Cover of Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, widely considered one of the best ambient releases. Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronica, new age, modern classical music and even noise. It is chiefly identifiable as having an overarching atmospheric context. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Styles of ambient music 2.1 Organic ambient music 2.2 Nature inspired ambient music 2.3 Ambient electronica 2.3.1 Ambient dub 2.3.2 Ambient groove 2.3.3 Ambient house 2.3.4 Beatless 2.3.5 Soundscape 3 Notable artists and works in chronological order 4 Sound 5 See also 6.
Jungle music - Jungle music Jungle is one of the most deviant and punkish forms of electronic music, employing unreasonably fast tempos (150-190 BPM is common), layering extended and mangled breakbeats on top of throbbing, authoritative basslines, often borrowed from reggae. Jungle borrows samples and styles from almost any type of music, assimilating them and bringing them into a completely different context. Jungle beats, originally cut from the hip hop breakbeats of the 70s and 80s, developed from their early form as equipment would allow. Many loop samplers around the time of Jungle's emergence would not accommodate beats faster than 150 BPM, and as technology adapted, artists made beats specifically for jungle, often out of beats sampled from old records. Drum machines were also employed, as their design allowed. One.
Intelligent dance music - Intelligent dance music IDM, short for intelligent dance music is an electronic music genre which began as a style of techno in the early 1990s. As compared to the driving, pounding, sound of techno aimed at the dancefloor, IDM aims for the head, being a bit slower, more melodic, less aggressive, and more artistic, quirky and improvisational. It is sometimes informally called intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Sound production in IDM 3 Other notable IDM artists 4 See also 5 External Links Overview The initials IDM appeared in music magazines during the genre's first wave in 1992-1993, but didn't really stick until the formation of the IDM mailing list, an email forum, on the Internet in August 1993. At.
House music - House music This article is part of the Electronic music series. Electronic art music Musique concrete Industrial music Synth pop Techno music House music Trance music Drum and bass House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, of which it was one of the earliest forms, beginning in the early to mid 1980s. The common element in most house music styles is a foundation that consists of a 4/4 beat generated by a drum machine together with a solid (usually also electronically generated) bassline. Upon this foundation, different styles would add sounds (both electronically generated as well as samples) more associated with other genres such as jazz, blues and synth pop. The article first considers the history of house music. House music has.
Glitch (music) - Glitch (music) Glitch (also known as clicks and cuts) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. Glitch is influenced by musique concrete, techno, industrial and ambient music, is usually extremely minimal and rhythmic and is sometimes considered a sub-genre of IDM. (The term "clicks n cuts" comes from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux called Clicks and Cuts.) Glitch is often produced on computers using modern digital production software to splice together small cuts of music from published songs, with beats made out of short clicks and bits of noise. The genre is thus named after the use of digital artifacts and noise-like distortions, often.
Elevator music - Elevator music Elevator music, also known as piped music or Muzak, refers to the gentle, bland arrangements of popular music designed for play in shopping malls, grocery stores, telephone systems (while the caller is on hold), and, of course, elevators. It sometimes features what seems like thousands of violins playing soft melodies or a brass band playing down-tempo salsa music. The Muzak corporation is perhaps the best-known supplier of such music. While some people find this style of music pleasant or soothing, some others find it annoying to the point of vexation. Indeed, the term muzak has become an epithet for excessively bland music. See also: Ambient music.
Dub music - Dub music Dub is a form of Jamaican music (see music of Jamaica) which developed in the early 1970s, in many ways as a precursor to hip hop in the United States (see music of the United States). Dub is characterized as a "version" of an existing song, typically emphasizing the drums and bass for a sound popular in local Sound Systems. The instrumental tracks are typically drenched in sound processing effects, with most of the lead instruments and vocals dropping in and out of the mix. The music sometimes features processed sound effects and other noises, such as animal sounds, babies crying, and producers shouting instructions at the musicians. These versions are mostly instrumental, sometimes including snippets of the original vocal version. Often these tracks are.
1994 in music - 1994 in music See also: 1993 in music, other events of 1994, 1995 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards Events January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hit a freeway median and flipped over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son was killed in the accident. February 7 - Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest and destroying a police station phone February 14 - The.
Aleatoric music - Aleatoric music Aleatoric (or aleatory) music or composition, is music where some element of the composition is left to chance. One of the earliest aleatoric compositions was the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel or Musical Dice Game, which consisted of a set of musical measures and a procedure for selecting them based on the throwing of a number of dice. Much of the best known aleatoric music is by John Cage, who was in part inspired by his friend Morton Feldman who was making experiments with chance in music in the 1950s. Cage used the I Ching in the composition of his music in order to introduce an element of chance over which he would have no control. The first time he used it was in the.
Bill Nelson (musician) - of Be Bep Deluxe, Nelson attempted another band project called Red Noise, but eventually settled into a career as a solo musician, recording iconoclastic albums in the early electropop vein such as The Love That Whirls and Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam. Many of these albums also shipped with bonus records featuring experimental ambient instrumentals, and this was a genre of music Nelson would embrace more fully in the future. Nelson had bad luck with major labels in the 1980s. A deal with CBS Records went sour, leaving one admired album, Getting the Holy Ghost Across (US title: On a Blue Wing) in limbo with no CD release to this day. Nelson and his manager Mark Rye had formed the Cocteau Records label in 1981, and for many years.
Timeline of trends in music (1990-present) - Timeline of trends in music (1990-present) See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989) 1990s 1990 in music International trends Barbadian artists like Gabby, Spice and Square One bring a new sound to Trinidadian soca Mari Boine's Gula Gula, and its titular hit single, bring Saami joik-based folk to popular attention Music of Australia Aboriginal music begins a popular revitalization Music of Cameroon Les Tetes Brulées release their debut, Les Tetes Brulés, the most internationally successful recording of bikutsi Music of India A vibrant electronica scene emerges in Goa, India. Music of.
Rave music - Rave music Rave music consists of forms of electronic music for dancing that are associated with the rave scene. Rave music got it start in Britain in the late 1980s, closely following the acid house phenomenon. Initially "rave music" was considered particular style that was a combination of fast breakbeat and more hardcore forms of techno. Early 1990s efforts by The Prodigy (The Experience), Utah Saints and The Shamen (En-Tact) were quintessential "rave music". By the early 2000s, the term was used more generically to mean any one of a number of different styles (or combinations thereof) that might be played at a rave party. In this sense, rave music is more associated with an event than a particular genre, per se. At a rave there can.
Robert Rich (musician) - Robert Rich (musician) Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, USA. He began building his own synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old. Rich's ambient music tends toward organic, with a seamless integration of electronic, electric, and acoustic instruments. His music is sometimes categorized as New Age. One of his more famous projects is all-night "sleep concerts." Discography Sunyata (1982) Trances (1983) Drones (1983) Inner Landscapes (live) Hypnos, (1985) Numena (1986) Geometry (1987) Rainforest (1989) Strata (with Steve Roach) Hearts of Space, (1990) Gaudi" Hearts of Space, (1991) Soma (with Steve Roach) Hearts of Space, (1992) Eye Catching by Amoeba, (1993) Propagation Hearts of Space (1994) Yearning (with Lisa Moskow) Hearts of Space, (1995) Stalker (with Brian Lustmord) Hearts of Space, (1995) Night Sky Replies.
Psychedelic music - Psychedelic music Psychedelic music was a popular form of much music in the 1960s (and later) which is creatively oriented towards the use of mind affecting drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline and especially LSD. History In the 1960s In the United States, this sound was particularly characteristic of the West Coast sound, with bands such as the Grateful Dead, Vanilla Fudge, Tommy James and the Shondells and Jefferson Airplane in the vanguard. There were also less well known psychedelic bands in outlying regions, such as the 13th Floor Elevators and Bubble Puppy working out of Texas, and the Third Bardo in New York City, a group which had a brief revival in the 1990s. In Great Britain, although the psychedelic revolution occurred later, the impact was.
Musical genre - Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. See also musical form. Some genres, such as Indian music, are geographically defined; others, like Baroque music, are largely defined by chronology. Still others, such as Barbershop, are defined by quite precise technical requirements. Some genres, however, are quite vague, and may be contrived by critics; post-rock, for example, is a term devised and defined by Simon Reynolds. To some extent, all attempts to categorise music will have a degree of artificiality to them, because musicians tend to produce music in any style they choose, without concerning themselves with which genre they are working in. Some people feel that the categorization of music into genres is worse than useless. John Zorn, for.
Music of Australia - Music of Australia The earliest Australian musical form was the folk musics of the Australian Aborigines. Aboriginal music declined after European colonization, and has only recently begun to be revived, often with modernized influences. Bands like Yothu Yindi have begun the popularization of Aboriginal folk in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Australia has also been home to notable classical composers as well as artists working in popular music genres such as rock, jazz, folk and electronica. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Aboriginal music 1.1 Bunggul 1.2 Clan songs 1.3 Karma 1.4 Didgeridoo 1.5 Krill Krill 1.6 Kun-borrk 1.7 Wangga 2 Classical and contemporary 3 Jazz and new music 4 Popular music 4.8 1950s 4.9 1960s 4.10 1970s 4.11 1980s 4.12 1990s 5 See.
Music for Airports - Music for Airports Music for Airports is one of Brian Eno's first ambient albums. Music for Airports employs phasing tape loops of different length in some tracks, where, for example, in 1/1, a single piano melody is repeated and at different times other instruments will segue in and out, and this happens pseudorandomly due to the phenomenon of phasing: at some point these instrumental sounds will clump together, at some points, be spread apart. Track listing The track labelling is so because of the album's first release (1978) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on. 1/1 : Piano and other instruments 2/1 : Similar to 1/1, but synthesized vocals. 1/2 : Synthesized vocals and piano. 2/2 :.
Music of the United States (1980s to the present) - Music of the United States (1980s to the present) The 1980s saw New Wave entering the year as the single biggest mainstream market, with heavy metal, punk rock and hardcore punk, and hip hop achieving increased crossover success. With the demise of punk rock, a new generation of punk-influenced genres arose, including Gothic rock, post-punk, alternative rock, emo and thrash metal. Hip hop underwent its first diversification, with Miami bass, Chicago hip house, Washington DC go go, Detroit ghettotech, Los Angeles electroclash and the golden age of old school hip hop in New York City. House music developed in Chicago, techno music developed in Detroit which also saw the flowering of the Detroit Sound in gospel. This helped inspire the greatest crossover success of Christian Contemporary.
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List of ambient artists - List of ambient artists The following is a list of influential musicians who compose or have composed ambient music: Adham Shaikh Air Alio Die Aphex Twin Atom Heart Wally Badarou Michael Brook Deuter Stuart Dempster Empathi Entropica Brian Eno Tim Floyd Forrest Fang Future Sound Of London Global Communication Jah Wobble Jeff Greinke Jon Hassell Luke Koyle KLF Land Daniel Lanois Bill Laswell Lustmord Makyo Chris Meloche Moby AKA Voodoo Child Pete Namlook Robert Rich The Orb oto O Yuki Conjugate Peter Gabriel Radio Chong Ching Radiohead Omicron Robert Fripp Saul Stokes Spacetime Continuum/Jonah Sharp Steve Roach David Reeves Erik Satie Sun Electric Terre Thaemlitz Tetsu Inoue TUU Vidna Obmana Edgar Varèse Zoviet France.
