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As a longtime geek of electronic music in all of its kinds, compiling a list of the ten best ambient albums holds true torture. Please understand that I feel properly ashamed for leaving out all the classics I inevitably need to avoid here. However, if this list helps those unaware down the path of chilled-out enlightenment, then my job has served its function.
Even the very term itself has sub-genres: "ambient home", "chillbient" (what is "chillbient" anyhow? Forget it, I do not need to know), "Illbient" (see "chillbient"), "dark ambient". the list goes on. The one prevailing concept behind this type of music is that it conjures a certain state of mind and tone of important and unwinded nirvana whilst integrating samples of every day happenings like bees buzzing, birds chirping, and cows farting (listen to "Sticky End" on "U.F.
These found sounds only presume prior to the human aspect requires to take charge and assemble the environment with samples, synths, and classical origins. Solution Can Be Seen Here struck its loudest chords in the 70's and 90's. In the 70's, Brian Eno made the single biggest stride in the history of ambient music with a series of exceptionally beautiful vinyl experiences that still hold up to this really day.
Eno proved that critical electronic music can be simply as emotional as the most complex Mozart symphony, or more significantly (in the face of worn out rock aesthetics), the longest screeching guitar solo. The 90's made ambient music even better. The young techno crowd stepped in and revealed off their ability in studio science while including the most recent and biggest in musical technology.
A few of the finest moments in ambient music shimmered from this time duration and those valuable ideas only continue to collect steam. Eno when described his ambient output as "ecological music", as if to state that his music was there to disregard as much as get lost in. A natural method to ambient music is essential it invites the listener to be just as engaged and proactive as is essential.
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