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| | Backroads - Notes on Ambient Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Ambient music has a rhythmic or trance-like nature, with (generally) electronic keyboards and/or space music melodies or themes. |
 | | Today's ambient music, usually referred to as "New Ambient" or "Ambient Dub," means full of rhythms, for dance or trance, body movement or mind relaxation mode, and often sounds floaty or "groovy," with drop-out beats, tribal treats, ethno-primitive, textural and/or cyber-phonic music. |
 | | Ambient music grew into its own genre out of the "chill-out" rooms that became a part of the rave scene, a place to escape the pounding, throbbing techno beats (often in excess of 160-180beats per minute!), where DJ's mixed together nature sounds, New Age music tracks, and tape loops or other sound samples. |
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