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302 relations: Acid house, Acoustic music, Ad Astra (film), Akira (1988 film), Alice Coltrane, AllMusic, Altered state of consciousness, Alzheimer's disease, Amber (Autechre album), Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, Ambient house, Ambient music, Ambient techno, Ambient video, Annihilation (film), Aphex Twin, ARP 2500, Ash Ra Tempel, Atonality, Autechre, Avant-garde music, Éliane Radigue, B12 (band), Background music, Balaklava (album), Balearic beat, Banco de Gaia, Bandcamp, Bark Psychosis, BBC, BBC Radio 1 Relax, Beach, Beat (acoustics), Beautiful music, Berlin Trilogy, Bill Laswell, Biomusic, Biosphere (musician), Bird vocalization, Birdsong in music, Birmingham, Black metal, Blade Runner, Boards of Canada, Boxoffice Pro, Brainvoyager, Brian Eno, Broadcast (band), Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments, ... Expand index (252 more) »
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Acid house
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986.
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Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
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Ad Astra (film)
Ad Astra is a 2019 American psychological science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray.
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Akira (1988 film)
is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name.
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Alice Coltrane
Alice Lucille Coltrane (McLeod; August 27, 1937January 12, 2007), also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called an altered state of mind, altered mental status (AMS) or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.
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Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
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Amber (Autechre album)
Amber is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Autechre, released on 7 November 1994 by Warp.
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by Brian Eno, released in 1978 by Polydor Records.
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Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (1980) is an album by the American ambient musician Laraaji (alias Edward Larry Gordon), which was produced by Brian Eno.
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Ambient house
Ambient house is a downtempo subgenre of house music that first emerged in the late 1980s, combining elements of acid house and ambient music.
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Ambient music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Ambient music and Ambient music are 1960s in music, British styles of music, easy listening music, electronic music genres and radio formats.
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Ambient techno
Ambient techno is a subgenre of techno that incorporates the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the rhythmic elements and production of techno. Ambient music and ambient techno are British styles of music and electronic music genres.
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Ambient video
Ambient video is a genre of video that puts emphasis on atmosphere over traditional storytelling or news content.
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Annihilation (film)
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.
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ARP 2500
The ARP 2500 is a monophonic analog modular synthesizer.
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Ash Ra Tempel
Ash Ra Tempel was a West German krautrock group led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching that was active from 1970 to 1976.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
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Autechre
Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
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Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.
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Éliane Radigue
Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer.
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B12 (band)
B12 are a British electronic music duo consisting of Mike Golding and Steve Rutter.
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Background music
Background music (British English: piped music) is a mode of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be a primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are deliberately chosen to affect behavioral and emotional responses in humans such as concentration, relaxation, distraction, and excitement. Ambient music and Background music are easy listening music.
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Balaklava (album)
Balaklava was the second album recorded and released by psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine in 1968.
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Balearic beat
Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, Balearic, Ibiza house or Ibizan chillout, is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s.
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Banco de Gaia
Banco de Gaia is an English electronic music project, formed in 1989 by Toby Marks (born 1964, South London, England).
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Bandcamp
Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California.
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Bark Psychosis
Bark Psychosis were an English post-rock band/musical project from east London formed in 1986.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC Radio 1 Relax
BBC Radio 1 Relax was a British online-only radio stream, owned and operated by the BBC and run as a spin-off from BBC Radio 1.
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Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
Beat (acoustics)
In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies.
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Beautiful music
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Ambient music and Beautiful music are easy listening music.
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Berlin Trilogy
The Berlin Trilogy consists of three studio albums by English musician David Bowie: Low, "Heroes" (both 1977) and Lodger (1979).
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Bill Laswell
William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner.
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Biomusic
Biomusic is a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by non-humans.
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Biosphere (musician)
Geir Aule Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) Alternative Rock, Miller Freeman,, p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere.
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Bird vocalization
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.
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Birdsong in music
Birdsong has played a role in Western classical music since at least the 14th century, when composers such as Jean Vaillant quoted birdsong in some of their compositions.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
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Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
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Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a group in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s.
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Boxoffice Pro
Boxoffice Pro is a film industry magazine dedicated to the movie theatre business published by BoxOffice Media LP.
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Brainvoyager
Brainvoyager is the artist name of Jos Verboven (born 17 July 1962) a Dutch electronic music composer and musician.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.
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Broadcast (band)
Broadcast were an English band formed in Birmingham in 1995 by Trish Keenan (vocals, keyboards, guitar) and James Cargill (bass).
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Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments
Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments (BEMI) was a manufacturer of synthesizers and unique MIDI controllers.
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Bullroarer
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.
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Cat System Corp.
Jornt Elzinga (born 1989), commonly known as, is a Dutch musician regarded as a vaporwave figure that originated the mallsoft subgenre.
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Chernobyl (miniseries)
Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed.
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Chill Out (KLF album)
Chill Out is the third studio album by British electronic music group The KLF, released on 5 February 1990.
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Chill-out music
Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined form of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods. Ambient music and chill-out music are easy listening music and electronic music genres.
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Chillwave
Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. Ambient music and Chillwave are electronic music genres.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Cluster (band)
Cluster were a German musical duo consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, formed in 1971 and associated with West Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scenes.
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Columbus (2017 film)
Columbus is a 2017 American drama film written, and directed by Kogonada in his feature directorial debut.
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Cosmopolis (film)
Cosmopolis is a 2012 drama film written, produced, and directed by David Cronenberg.
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COUM Transmissions
COUM Transmissions was a music and performance art collective who operated in the United Kingdom from 1969 through to 1976.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Current 93
Current 93 are an English experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms.
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.
Dark ambient
Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial musicReed, Alexander: Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, Oxford University Press, 2013,, p. 190 that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. Ambient music and dark ambient are electronic music genres.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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David Tibet
David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting; 5 March 1960) is an English poet, artist and musician.
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David Toop
David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, curator, and emeritus professor.
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Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music.
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Delay (audio effect)
Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time.
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Diatonic scale
In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.
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Digital radio
Digital radio is the use of digital technology to transmit or receive across the radio spectrum.
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Disco Inferno (band)
Disco Inferno were an English experimental rock band active in the late 1980s and the 1990s.
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Discreet Music
Discreet Music is the fourth studio album by Brian Eno, and the first released under his full name (as opposed to simply "Eno").
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Dntel
James Scott "Jimmy" Tamborello (born February 17, 1975), also known by his stage name Dntel, is an American electronic music artist and DJ.
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.
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Downtempo
Downtempo (or downbeat) is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. Ambient music and Downtempo are British styles of music and electronic music genres.
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Dreadzone
Dreadzone are a British electronic music group formed in 1993 in London by ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts and musician Tim Bran.
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Dream pop
Dream pop (also typeset as dreampop) is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody. Ambient music and dream pop are British styles of music.
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Drive (2011 film)
Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Drone music
Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called drones. Ambient music and drone music are electronic music genres.
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Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.
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Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ambient music and Dub music are 1960s in music and electronic music genres.
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Dune (1984 film)
Dune is a 1984 American epic space opera film written and directed by David Lynch and based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel Dune.
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Dune (2021 film)
Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed and co-produced by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth.
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Easy listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. Ambient music and Easy listening are easy listening music and radio formats.
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Echoes (radio program)
Echoes is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, space, electronica, and new-age music.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. Ambient music and electronica are electronic music genres.
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Enemy (2013 film)
Enemy is a 2013 surrealist psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve and produced by M. A. Faura and Niv Fichman.
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Envelope (music)
In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.
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Environments (album series)
Environments (stylized in all lowercase) is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irv Teibel (1938–2010) for Syntonic Research Inc.
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Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.
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Everywhere at the End of Time
Everywhere at the End of Time (commonly shortened to EATEOT) is the eleventh recording by the Caretaker, an alias of English electronic musician Leyland Kirby.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.
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Four on the floor (music)
Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm used primarily in dance genres such as disco and electronic dance music.
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Free (Iggy Pop album)
Free is the eighteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop, released by Caroline International and Loma Vista Recordings on September 6, 2019.
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Furniture music
Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as furnishing music), is background music originally played by live performers.
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Gaudi (musician)
Daniele Gaudi (born 12 July 1963), better known as Gaudi, is an Anglo-Italian musician, solo artist and record producer based in London, who specialises in dub music, electronica, reggae and worldbeat.
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George Grove
Sir George Grove (13 August 182028 May 1900) was an English engineer and writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 adult animated neo-noir cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by frequent Oshii collaborator Kazunori Itō.
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Glitch (music)
Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1990s which is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitch-based audio media and other sonic artifacts. Ambient music and glitch (music) are electronic music genres.
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Global Communication
Global Communication is an electronic music duo consisting of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard; the duo have also recorded under other aliases, including Reload and Jedi Knights.
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Gone Girl (film)
Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn, based on her 2012 novel of the same name.
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Gong
A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Granular synthesis
Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.
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Grouper (musician)
Grouper is the solo project of musician, artist and producer Liz Harris (born July 15, 1980).
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Harmonia (band)
Harmonia was a West German musical "supergroup" formed in 1973 as a collaboration between members of two prominent krautrock bands: Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius joined by Neu! guitarist Michael Rother.
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Hearts of Space
Hearts of Space is an American weekly syndicated public radio show featuring music of a contemplative nature"When you listen to space and ambient music you are connecting with a tradition of contemplative sound experience whose roots are ancient and diverse.
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Heathers
Heathers is a 1989 American teen black comedy film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts.
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Her (film)
Her (stylized in lowercase) is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic comedy drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Spike Jonze.
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Higher Intelligence Agency
Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Robert (Bobby) Bird.
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Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster.
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Illbient
Illbient is a genre of electronic music and an art movement that originated among hip hop-influenced experimental musicians from New York City in the early 1990s.
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Impressionism in music
Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture".
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Incidental music
Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical.
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Incunabula (album)
Incunabula is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Autechre, released by UK label Warp on 29 November 1993, and again by Wax Trax! on 25 January 1994 in the United States.
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Independent record label
An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes. Ambient music and Industrial music are British styles of music and electronic music genres.
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Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
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Intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints. Ambient music and Intelligent dance music are British styles of music.
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Interstellar (film)
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who the screenplay with his brother Jonathan.
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Irv Teibel
Irving Solomon "Irv" Teibel (October 9, 1938 – October 28, 2010) was an American field recordist, graphic designer, and photographer.
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Isao Tomita
, often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
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ISDN (album)
ISDN is a music album by experimental electronica artists The Future Sound of London which was released in two different versions in 1994 and 1995.
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ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.
Japanoise
, a portmanteau of "Japanese" and "noise", is the noise music scene of Japan.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Ambient music and Jazz are radio formats.
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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Julianna Barwick
Julianna Barwick is an American musician who composes using electronic loops.
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, performer and producer, originally from the Pacific Northwest and currently based in Los Angeles.
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Kim Cascone
Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955) is an Italian American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient, drone, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record label, Silent Records.
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King Tubby
Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.
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KK Null
, known by his stage name KK Null, is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist active since the early 1980s.
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Krautrock
Krautrock (also called, German for) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ambient music and Krautrock are 1960s in music and electronic music genres.
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Laraaji
Laraaji (born Edward Larry Gordon, 3 May 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing in piano, zither and mbira.
Laurie Spiegel
Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer.
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Lifeforms (The Future Sound of London album)
Lifeforms is the second studio album by British electronica group The Future Sound of London.
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Light music
Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Ambient music and Light music are easy listening music.
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List of ambient music artists
This is a list of ambient music artists.
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List of animal sounds
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication.
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List of electronic music genres
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. Ambient music and list of electronic music genres are electronic music genres.
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List of Sirius XM Radio channels
Since 2008, Sirius XM Radio has had a similar channel lineup, with a few differences based on whether the individual has a Sirius, XM, or SiriusXM radio.
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Lodger (album)
Lodger is the thirteenth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 25 May 1979 through RCA Records.
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Loop Guru
Loop Guru is a worldbeat group consisting of bassist/guitarist Salman Gita (born Sam Dodson) and programmer Jamuud (born David Muddyman).
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Lowercase (music)
Lowercase is an extreme form of ambient minimalism in which very quiet sounds are amplified to extreme levels.
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Main (band)
Main were a British band formed in 1991 by guitarists Robert Hampson and Scott Dowson, both formerly of the English rock band Loop.
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Mallsoft
Mallsoft (also known as mallwave) is a vaporwave subgenre centered around shopping malls.
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Mandy (2018 film)
Mandy is a 2018 action psychological horror film directed by Panos Cosmatos, produced by Elijah Wood and co-written by Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn based on a story Cosmatos conceived.
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Massage
Massage is the rubbing or kneading of the body's soft tissues.
Max Richter
Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist.
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Múm
Múm (stylized in lowercase) is an Icelandic indietronica band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.
MDMA
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly or mandy (crystal form), is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties.
Meditation
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Merzbow
is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by, best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise.
Mick Harris
Michael John Harris (born 4 October 1967) is an English musician from Birmingham.
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Midori Takada
Midori Takada (高田みどり) (born December 21, 1951) is a Japanese composer and percussionist.
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Minimal music
Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.
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Mixmaster Morris
Mixmaster Morris (born Morris Gould; 30 December 1965) is an English electronica DJ and underground musician who has also recorded as The Irresistible Force.
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Moon (2009 film)
Moon is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones.
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Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch.
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Motorik
Motorik is the 4/4 beat often used by, and heavily associated with, krautrock bands.
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.
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Music and sleep
Sleep problems are found to be correlated with poor well-being and low quality of life.
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Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys
Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys is a 1968 album by Tony Scott.
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Music for Zen Meditation
Music for Zen Meditation is a 1964 album by jazz clarinetist Tony Scott.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music therapy
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." It is also a vocation, involving a deep commitment to music and the desire to use it as a medium to help others.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Musical form
In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.
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Musical Starstreams
Musical Starstreams (also known as Starstreams) is a terrestrial and internet radio program that first aired in the San Francisco bay area in December 1981.
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Musical tone
Traditionally in Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic sound.
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Musique concrète
Musique concrète: " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language. Ambient music and Musique concrète are electronic music genres.
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Muzak
Muzak is an American brand of background music played in retail stores and other public establishments. Ambient music and Muzak are easy listening music.
Natural sounds
Natural sounds are any sounds produced by non-human organisms as well as those generated by natural, non-biological sources within their normal soundscapes.
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Nature
Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole.
New-age music
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. Ambient music and New-age music are 1960s in music.
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Noise music
Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. Ambient music and noise music are electronic music genres.
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Noise pollution
Noise pollution, or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise or sound with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of which are harmful to a degree.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Nurse with Wound
Nurse with Wound (abbreviated NWW) is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton.
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Ocean of Sound
Ocean of Sound is a 1996 compilation album compiled and produced by English musician and author David Toop.
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Omnibus Press
Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
Daniel Lopatin (born July 25, 1982), best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter.
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Onkyokei
The Onkyo music movement or (translation: "reverberation of sound"Cox, Christoph and Warner, Daniel, eds. (2004). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, p.413..) is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s.
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Optimism
Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable.
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Ott (record producer)
Ott (born 1968) is a British record producer and musician who has worked with Sinéad O'Connor, Embrace, the Orb, and Brian Eno, and has achieved recognition since 2002 for his own psychedelic dub tracks and his collaborations with Simon Posford (Hallucinogen / Shpongle).
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
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Pearls Before Swine (band)
Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, which is now part of Melbourne, Florida.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Phill Niblock
Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Planetarium
A planetarium (planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
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Popol Vuh (band)
Popol Vuh were a German musical collective founded by keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1969 together with Frank Fiedler (sound design, fine cut), Holger Trülzsch (percussion), and Bettina Fricke (tablas and production).
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Post-rock
Post-rock is a music genre characterized by the exploration of textures and timbres as well as non-rock styles, sometimes placing less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs than on atmosphere, for musically evocative purposes.
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Postminimalism
Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 569.
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Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 historical romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright, in his feature directorial debut, and based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.
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Psychedelic experience
A psychedelic experience (known colloquially as a trip) is a temporary altered state of consciousness induced by the consumption of a psychedelic substance (most commonly LSD, mescaline, psilocybin mushrooms, or DMT).
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Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness. Ambient music and psychedelic music are 1960s in music.
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Psychedelic trance
Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.
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Psychick Warriors ov Gaia
Psychick Warriors ov Gaia was a group of Dutch techno music record producers from the town of Tilburg, also known as PWOG, Thee Disciples ov Gaia and Sluagh Ghairm.
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Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the branch of psychophysics involving the scientific study of sound perception and audiology—how the human auditory system perceives various sounds.
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Pygmalion (album)
Pygmalion is the third studio album by English rock band Slowdive, released on 6 February 1995 by Creation Records.
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Radio telescope
A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
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Ramón Sender (composer)
Ramón Sender Barayón (born October 29, 1934) is a composer, visual artist and writer.
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Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.
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Reductionism (music)
Reductionism is a form of improvised music that developed towards the end of the 20th century, centered in Berlin, London, Tokyo, and Vienna.
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Relaxation technique
A relaxation technique (also known as relaxation training) is any method, process, procedure, or activity that helps a person to relax; attain a state of increased calmness; or otherwise reduce levels of pain, anxiety, stress or anger.
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Repetition (music)
Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated.
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Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor (also known as RA) is an online music magazine and community platform established in 2001 and dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
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Reverberation
Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Ride (band)
Ride are an English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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San Francisco Tape Music Center
The San Francisco Tape Music Center, or SFTMC, was founded in the summer of 1962 by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by local composers working with tape recorders and other novel compositional technologies, which functioned both as an electronic music studio and concert venue.
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Scorn (band)
Scorn is an English electronic music project.
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.
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Seefeel
Seefeel is a British electronic and post-rock band formed in the early 1990s by Mark Clifford (guitar, programming), Daren Seymour (bass), Justin Fletcher (drums, programming), and Sarah Peacock (vocals, guitar).
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (abbreviated as SAW II) is the second studio album by the British electronic music artist and producer Richard D. James, under his pseudonym Aphex Twin.
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Shoegaze
Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with "dream pop") is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. Ambient music and shoegaze are British styles of music.
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Sleep
Sleep is a state of reduced mental and physical activity in which consciousness is altered and certain sensory activity is inhibited.
Slowdive
Slowdive (stylized in lowercase) are an English rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989.
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Solaris (1972 film)
Solaris (Солярис, tr. Solyaris) is a 1972 Soviet science fiction film based on Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel of the same title.
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Solaris (2002 film)
Solaris is a 2002 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau, and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone.
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Soothing Sounds for Baby
Soothing Sounds for Baby (1962) is a three-volume set of ambient electronic music by American composer, musician, and inventor Raymond Scott.
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Sound map
Sound maps are digital geographical maps that put emphasis on the sonic representation of a specific location.
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Soundscape
A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context.
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Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.
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Spa (Sirius XM)
Spa, formerly Spa 73, is a new-age, ambient and instrumental music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 68 (previously 73), XM Satellite Radio channel 68 (previously 72, where it replaced Audio Visions, which was XM 77) and on DISH Network channel 6068.
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Space age pop
Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. Ambient music and Space age pop are easy listening music.
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Space music
Space music, also called spacemusic or space ambient, is a subgenre of ambient music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving". Ambient music and space music are electronic music genres and radio formats.
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Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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Star's End
Star's End is a weekly, five-hour-long new-age music radio show broadcast by 88.5 WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, in Philadelphia.
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Stars of the Lid
Stars of the Lid is an American ambient music project that formerly consisted of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie.
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Stephen Hill (broadcaster)
Stephen Hill is an American producer, creator and host of the long-running Hearts of Space radio program, which features "contemporary space music" from a variety of musicians and genres.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
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Steven Stapleton
Steven Peter Stapleton (born 3 February 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse with Wound.
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Stress management
Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning.
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String section
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.
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Stylus Magazine
Stylus Magazine was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns.
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Susumu Yokota
Susumu Yokota (横田 進 Yokota Susumu, or ススム・ヨコタ Susumu Yokota; born 22 April 1960 – 27 March 2015) was a Japanese composer.
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Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an American musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s, with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials.
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Sweet Trip
Sweet Trip was an American electronic/experimental rock act formed in 1993 in the Bay Area of California by musicians Valerie Cooper and Roberto Burgos.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
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Tape loop
In music, tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder.
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Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).
Temple of Transparent Balls
Temple of Transparent Balls is the second album by Ed Handley, Andy Turner and Ken Downie, the first under the name The Black Dog, and was released on double vinyl, cassette and CD in 1993.
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Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.
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Texture (music)
In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.
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The Black Dog (band)
The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Caretaker (musician)
The Caretaker was a long-running project by English ambient musician, James Leyland Kirby (born 9 May 1974).
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The Future Sound of London
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans.
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The KLF
The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band who originated in Liverpool and London in the late 1980s.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Orb
The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty.
The Passion of the Christ
The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mel Gibson.
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The Postal Service
The Postal Service is an American indie pop group from Seattle, Washington, consisting of singer Ben Gibbard, producer Jimmy Tamborello, and Jenny Lewis on background vocals.
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The Quietus
The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.
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The Revenant (2015 film)
The Revenant is a 2015 American Western action drama film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
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The Social Network
The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
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The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.
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The Wire (magazine)
The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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THX 1138
THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut.
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Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron.
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Tokyo Weekender
Tokyo Weekender is an English-language magazine published in Japan.
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Tony Scott (musician)
Tony Scott (born Anthony Joseph Sciacca June 17, 1921 – March 28, 2007) was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger with an interest in folk music around the world.
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Traffic (2000 film)
Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan.
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Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe. Ambient music and Trance music are British styles of music.
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Transglobal Underground
Transglobal Underground (sometimes written as Trans-Global Underground) is an English electro-world music group, specializing in a fusion of western, Asian and African music styles (sometimes labelled world fusion and ethno techno).
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Trip hop
Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the late 1980s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Ambient music and Trip hop are electronic music genres.
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Ultima Thule Ambient Music
Ultima Thule Ambient Music is a long-running, specialist ambient music radio show which has been broadcast on Australian community radio since 1989.
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Vaporwave
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, and became well-known in 2015. Ambient music and Vaporwave are electronic music genres.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
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Voyager Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
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William Basinski
William James Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Woob
Woob is the stage name of Paul Frankland, an English composer, musician and filmmaker who started recording in the early 1990s.
World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
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WXPN
WXPN (88.5 FM) is a non-commercial, public radio station licensed to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that broadcasts an adult album alternative (AAA) radio format, along with many other format shows.
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Yle
Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.
Yoga
Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
4′33″
4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage.
76:14
76:14 is the second studio album by Global Communication, an English electronic music duo consisting of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard.
See also
Easy listening music
- Ambient music
- Background music
- Barococo
- Beautiful music
- Cascading strings
- Chill-out music
- Easy listening
- Elevator music
- Letizia Gambi
- Light music
- Lounge music
- Muzak
- Piano bar
- Rowe Customusic
- Seeburg 1000
- Sentimental ballad
- Space age pop
- Studio orchestra
- The Longines Symphonette
References
Also known as Ambient (genre), Ambient (music), Ambient dub, Ambient electronica, Ambient groove, Ambient industrial, Ambient pop, Ambiental music, Atmospheric music, History of ambient music, Isolationist Ambient, Isolationist ambient music, List of ambient-music shows, Organic ambient music, Post-Ambient, Post-Ambient Music, Post-Minimal Ambient, Post-Minimalist Ambient, Post-Minimalist Ambient Music, Post-minimal ambient music, Postambient, Postambient music, Postminimal ambient, Postminimal ambient music, Postminimalist ambient music, Proto-ambient, Psybient, psychill.
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