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Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking composition, beat, and/or structured melody, [5] ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening, [6] and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation.
Long Ambients 2 is the follow-up to Long Ambients 1: Calm.Sleep. (2016) and offers more than 200 minutes of ambient music to put a listener to sleep or to meditate. [2] Moby had struggled to find music that helped him sleep better, so he decided to compose some himself.
Music from the album has appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic, and Trainspotting, whose soundtrack sold approximately four million copies. [14] "An Ending (Descent)" was also used during the closing credits of the 2024 film Maria. Two of the songs from the album, "Silver Morning" and "Deep Blue Day", were issued as a 7" single on EG ...
Downtempo (or downbeat) [4] is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. [5] Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, [6] the style may be played in relaxation clubs or as "warm-up or cool-down" music during a DJ set. [5]
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [ 1 ]
Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music [1] [3] that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones.
Ambient video is a new art form made possible by the increasing availability of large-scale, high-definition video display units. [1] Introduced in the late 1990s, the first flat wide-screen televisions were expensive, costing as much as $15,000 in 1997. [ 2 ]
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2012.These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.