ambient techno
Ambient Techno is a slower, more relaxed form of Techno, incorporating the … Read Full Bio ↴Ambient Techno is a slower, more relaxed form of Techno, incorporating the minimal elements often found in Ambient music. Tracks may remain still essentially beat-driven, as in the early works of Aphex Twin. The other end of the spectrum is a more atmospheric, layered approach, such as that shown by Biosphere and Gas.
It is a 1990s offshoot of techno and ambient music that united the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the melodic and rhythmic elements of techno and electro. AllMusic states that ambient techno blended the "soaring, layered, aquatic atmospheres of beatless and experimental ambient" with techno's "well-produced, thin-sounding electronics; minor-key melodies and alien-sounding samples."[1] Artists returned to the instruments of the Detroit techno and Chicago house scenes, including analogue synthesizers, the Roland TB-303 bass machine, and the TR-909 drum machine, while also drawing on ambient and chillout elements.[2] The style would be associated with labels such as Warp, Apollo, GPR, and Beyond,[1] with releases focusing more on albums than 12-inch singles.[3]
Ambient techno departed from the communal, dance-oriented sound heard at raves and instead saw popularity as a form of "electronic listening music."[2] Critic Simon Reynolds characterized the style as a "post-rave genre" and "a digital update of nineteenth century programme music," comparing it to "the aqua-mysticism and forest idylls of Claude Debussy.
History
The 1984 album E2-E4 by German musician Manuel Göttsching was an early influence on ambient techno works by Carl Craig, the Black Dog, and The Orb.[4] The Orb's 1991 album Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld would influence subsequent dub-influenced ambient techno.[2] Aphex Twin's 1991 recording "Analogue Bubblebath" would also signal a shift toward meditative, ambient-leaning techno.[2] Producer Pete Namlook also released a prodigious amount of music in the genre, starting the label Fax and becoming a "spiritual leader" of the movement.[5] According to AllMusic, early classics of the style included albums such as the Orb's U.F.Orb (1992), Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992), Ultramarine's Every Man and Woman Is a Star (1991), and Biosphere's Microgravity (1991).[6]
The release of Warp's Artificial Intelligence compilation in 1992 helped to establish the genre and featured artists such Aphex Twin and B12 under aliases, Autechre, Richie Hawtin, and the Orb's Alex Paterson.[2] During the 1990s, compilation series such as Chill Out or Die explored ambient techno and house.[7] The genre would move toward a darker sound reminiscent of Brian Eno's notion of "environmental music" with releases such as Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994).[8] In 1995, producer Wolfgang Voigt began releasing influential ambient techno projects as Gas, bringing together lush and expansive atmospheres with 4/4 minimal techno beats.[9]
It is a 1990s offshoot of techno and ambient music that united the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the melodic and rhythmic elements of techno and electro. AllMusic states that ambient techno blended the "soaring, layered, aquatic atmospheres of beatless and experimental ambient" with techno's "well-produced, thin-sounding electronics; minor-key melodies and alien-sounding samples."[1] Artists returned to the instruments of the Detroit techno and Chicago house scenes, including analogue synthesizers, the Roland TB-303 bass machine, and the TR-909 drum machine, while also drawing on ambient and chillout elements.[2] The style would be associated with labels such as Warp, Apollo, GPR, and Beyond,[1] with releases focusing more on albums than 12-inch singles.[3]
Ambient techno departed from the communal, dance-oriented sound heard at raves and instead saw popularity as a form of "electronic listening music."[2] Critic Simon Reynolds characterized the style as a "post-rave genre" and "a digital update of nineteenth century programme music," comparing it to "the aqua-mysticism and forest idylls of Claude Debussy.
History
The 1984 album E2-E4 by German musician Manuel Göttsching was an early influence on ambient techno works by Carl Craig, the Black Dog, and The Orb.[4] The Orb's 1991 album Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld would influence subsequent dub-influenced ambient techno.[2] Aphex Twin's 1991 recording "Analogue Bubblebath" would also signal a shift toward meditative, ambient-leaning techno.[2] Producer Pete Namlook also released a prodigious amount of music in the genre, starting the label Fax and becoming a "spiritual leader" of the movement.[5] According to AllMusic, early classics of the style included albums such as the Orb's U.F.Orb (1992), Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992), Ultramarine's Every Man and Woman Is a Star (1991), and Biosphere's Microgravity (1991).[6]
The release of Warp's Artificial Intelligence compilation in 1992 helped to establish the genre and featured artists such Aphex Twin and B12 under aliases, Autechre, Richie Hawtin, and the Orb's Alex Paterson.[2] During the 1990s, compilation series such as Chill Out or Die explored ambient techno and house.[7] The genre would move toward a darker sound reminiscent of Brian Eno's notion of "environmental music" with releases such as Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994).[8] In 1995, producer Wolfgang Voigt began releasing influential ambient techno projects as Gas, bringing together lush and expansive atmospheres with 4/4 minimal techno beats.[9]
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@Foukez
@@NightDawnDusk Do you throw it in the well
Wishing you had someone to tell
What it was that you wished for
So it couldn't come true anymore
I've thrown so much away
These times die and stay alive
I've gone and i've stayed
And though both happened
At the same time
I know which one i like
And which one i hate
You never change to fire if you're ice
Even if you melt on a table and dry
And that table is burned
I'll tell you why
'Cuz you stayed by going away
And life changes not you
Every time is contained in now
Now is only time anything happens
Though one moments shot
In infinity's rounds
Now is the one time
Anything happens here
@sephyowns
this song feels like a shower
@reillyjarrosiak63
No way I’m in the shower rn
@ozzylepunknown551
Feels like the apathy you reach while being unable to sleep at 3:39 because of other People snoring violently and having an allergy attack at the same time. Then you just stop thinking about death and the insignificance of our existance for a while
@Emka877
@@ozzylepunknown551 you need earplugs
@senbeatz272
This song reminded me of a blue, lightful and peaceful late 90's early 00's swimming pool
@Jasperr2016
HAHAHA THIS IS THE ONLYYYYNSONG I SHOWER TOO
@marfizz92
this feels like swimming inside an empty indoor public pool at 5am, with the blue lightning inside the pool
@tacocatpoopracecarpooptacocat
so accurate
@96graces
yessss!!!
@eyerolling
I think lighting is the most misspelled word in English.