Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by the English musician Brian Eno, released in 1978 by Polydor Records.It is the first of Eno's ambient music albums, a term he coined to describe music intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as it is interesting". While not Eno's earliest entry in the style, it is credited with …

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). This list does not include little-known local artists. Artists are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a ...

Electronic body music (acronymized to EBM) is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of disco and dance music.It developed in the early 1980s in Western Europe as an outgrowth of both punk and industrial music cultures. It combines sequenced repetitive basslines, programmed dance music …

Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut studio album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of British electronic musician Richard D. James. It was released on 9 November 1992 through Apollo Records, a subsidiary of Belgian label R&S Records. The album consists of ambient techno tracks recorded onto cassette reputedly dating as far back as 1985, when James was thirteen …

Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters – called drones.It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of …

El ambient es un género musical, interpretado prioritariamente con instrumentos musicales electrónicos, en el cual se hace hincapié en el tono y la atmósfera sonora por encima de otros parámetros como la estructura musical o el ritmo. [1] Las composiciones ambientales suelen tener una duración más extensa que las de otros géneros más populares, sobrepasando …

La house music (prononcé en anglais : [haʊs mjuːzɪk]), musique house, ou simplement house, est un courant musical lancé au début des années 1980 à Chicago.Originellement liée à l'histoire des disc-jockeys, son nom provient du Warehouse, club de Chicago où officiait le DJ Frankie Knuckles.La house est constituée d'un rythme minimal, d'une ligne de basse proche du funk, …

The first full-length Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works 85–92, comprised material dating back to James' teen years.It was released in November 1992 by Apollo Records, a subsidiary of Belgian label R&S.John Bush of Allmusic would later describe the release as a watershed moment in ambient music. In a 2002 Rolling Stone record review Pat Blashill …

The term originated from an area called "The White Room" at the Heaven nightclub in London in 1989. Its DJs were Jimmy Cauty and Alex Patterson, later of the Orb. They created ambient mixes from sources such as Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, Mike Oldfield, 10cc, and War.The room's purpose was to allow dancers a chance to "chill out" from the more emphatic and fast …

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient times (for example Ancient Greek vases …