A fantastic landscape of the Venetian Lagoon, the calming ocean waves with this sunset summer music, ideal for meditation bar with Zen Relaxation Music, New Age & Piano Ambient Chillout Buddha ...

I came upon ambient/chillout music when I drifted over from New Age. I still love New Age, nothing really does it for me like it, but I try not to listen to it so much that it gets ...

Discover five lesser known ambient music albums from the 1990s to take your mind off things. At the beginning of the year, the essential Music from Memory label issued Virtual Dreams: Ambient ...

Artists The story behind the 2015 dream pop gem that TikTok can’t get enough of Artists "Steve Lukather said: ‘I can’t stand it.’ He got 90% of the publishing rights, so he can’t have been that mad!": ...

While Brian Eno didn’t invent the idea of music that becomes part of the environment, he was able to synthesise some of the disparate ideas around the form, and in 1978 he gave that form a name with ...

Lawrence English is the director of Room40. Brian Eno’s Music For Airports celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. This record is widely regarded as formalising ambient music as we know it today.

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Some might argue that chillout isn’t so much a style of music as a state of mind. The concept originated in the late ’80s, as the rave scene took hold in Britain and acid house ruled clubs. With ...

One way to track the evolution of popular music is to examine its subgenres. Think of how “rock” begat “punk rock,” which begat “post-punk,” as a simple example. Electronic and ambient music include ...