Ambient music is environmental. It is meant to mimic or enhance the sounds of everyday life, not to necessarily be rhythmic, melodic or any other thing traditionally associated with music. Ambient can, of course, contain any of those elements, but it does not necessarily have to. Everything from the groovy sounds of Global Communications to the frightening and cacophonous sounds of Darkwave is ambient. Brian Eno was a pioneer in this genre. Recently, Bill Laswell has made some critically acclaimed ambient records. Source : AudioGalaxy
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