ORGANIC AMBIENT MUSIC

so what is ambient music?

Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. Typical instruments include electronic musical instruments, but some ambient artists use traditional instrumentation of almost any variety.

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ambient music by The Secret Garden Project

These ambient mp3s are similar to the ones above but with more keyboard sounds.

SONGS WITH VOCALS

These vocal tracks still feature an ambient sound, with some dark ambient tracks as well.

dark ambient music

SImilar ambient style but with a darker flavour, and the odd industrial sound too.

ambient/rock cross over

This page features ambient tracks with a slightly more aggressive style and lead guitar.

A famous ambient music artist, Brian Eno, said ‘Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.' The mainstream popularity of ambient music is low, but it has derivative forms such as Ambient house, Ambient techno, drum and bass, and New Age.

Brian Eno first used the term ambient music in the late 1970s as music that would envelop the listener without drawing attention to itself. Often listeners will forget they are listening to ambient music, which is one of the biggest attractions of the genre. It can be any musical style, including jazz, electronic music and modern classical music. As it developed, sub genres also developed, such as organic ambient and dark ambient music.

By the 1980s, New Age music had become so much better known than ambient music, that ambient was taken as a synonym for “New Age”, and many ambient musicians deliberately took on new age themes to market themselves to this audience.

Early Warp records artists, (as well as later ones such as Aphex Twin), FSOL Future Sound of London (Lifeforms, ISDN) Autechre, (Incunabula, Amber), Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Portishead, and The KLF all took a part in popularising and diversifying ambient music. There are now a dizzying array of different sub-genres, festivals, websites, discussion lists, clubs, labels and artists making new, interesting, original music.

well known ORGANIC AMBIENT artists

Some of the artists in this sub-genre include Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, O Yuki Conjugate, James Johnson, Loren Nerell, Numina, and Tuu. Check out the variety of ambient styles on this site on the following pages...