AN UNBIASED VIEW OF AMBIENT MUSIC

An Unbiased View of Ambient music

—the “home furniture music” which he composed for events, for a style of half-critical, satiric experiment, while in the decades about 1920. Satie’s music is like Eno’s in that it was created deliberately as background music. Hear it, though, therefore you’ll see that it lacks the alienness and subliminality which are common of ambient

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House music for Dummies

Or There may be DJ Larry Levan, whose home at Ny's Paradise Garage not just defined a definite subgenre of its have ("garage" is slower and even more gospel oriented than "house") but set the tone for today's raves—no alcohol, significant drug use, a mixed, "up for it crowd" and loud, pulsating music for 15-hour stretches and not using a split. ^

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