Dark ambient music is experimentation on ambient music and makes use of ambient sounds to create a gloomy and unsettling soundscape. This type of music is often rhythmless or uses little or no beats, and may include a few noise effects and atonal synthesized washes.
One of the first dark ambient albums to come out was Brian Eno’s Ambient 4: On Land, the darkest of his ambient works. Although the album is mostly electronic, it also includes some acoustic sounds that are difficult to identify. The album is essentially a hodgepodge of mysterious sound effects that make you feel as though you were standing on a barren alien landscape. Other artists who experimented with dark ambient music is Richard James (Aphex Twin), Robert Rich, and Steve Roach.
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