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Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. Dark ambient is a diverse genre, related to industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and black metal, yet generally free from derivatives and connections to other genres or styles.

Dark ambient evolved partially based on several of Brian Eno’s early collaborations that had a distinctly dark or discordant edge, notably “An Index of Metals” (from Evening Star (1975)), a collaboration with Robert Fripp that incorporated harsh guitar feedback, the ambient pieces on the second half of David Bowie’s Low(1977), and Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1980), a collaboration with Jon Hassell.

Ambient industrial projects like Coil, Lilith, Lustmord, Zoviet France, and Nocturnal Emissions evolved out of industrial music during the 1980s, and were some of the earliest artists to create consistently Dark Ambient music. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, an ethereal wave trend emerged within the dark wave movement, that tended toward moody atmospheric pieces rather than jangly minor-key rock. ethereal wave was mainly associated with the Projekt record label, with bands like Black Tape for a Blue Girl doing music that ranged into moody ambient soundscapes.

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October 2008
Today (Sunday 12 October 2008)
NorCal Noisefest at The Space Theatre Big City Orchestra, Voice of Eye, A Fashionable Disease, Nux Vomica, IDX1274, Vankmen, Instagon, Delayed Sleep	The Space Theatre Sacramento, United States	1 person attending Add shout
Fall Into Darkness: Day 3 at Berbati's Pan Sunn O))), Grails, Trees, SubArachnoid Space	Berbati's Pan Portland, United States	22 people attending 11 shouts
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Sunn O))) Thou	Knitting Factory New York, United States	71 people attending 28 shouts
Thursday 16 October 2008
Sunn O))) Thou	First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, United States	61 people attending 33 shouts
Saturday 18 October 2008
Dive at School Of Rock Dive	School Of Rock New York, United States	1 person attending Add shout
Saturday 25 October 2008
Eccentrik Festival V at TBA Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Jill Tracy, Vernian Process, The Brides, Nicki Jaine, The Hellblinki Sextet, The Ghosts Project, Nathaniel Johnstone (of Abney Park)	TBA Raleigh, NC, United States	3 people attending Add shout

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squarepusher29 wrote:
Friday evening

visit http://musicamaximamagnetica.blogspot.com/

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stromliniemusik wrote:
last week

new stromlinie ambient live tracks available : http://www.lastfm.de/music/Stromlinie/ambient+live+settings

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Lexicon1971 wrote:
last month

Wow..this place rocks.

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johnny_glasgow wrote:
last month

But suitably covered in a philosophical mayonaise.

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johnny_glasgow wrote:
last month

The Large Hedron Collider ate my bag of chips. Dark, crispy chips, full of latent evil.

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ekesner wrote:
last month

Guitar based dark ambient. http://www.last.fm/music/True+Colour+of+Blood

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pharmafabrik wrote:
last month

FREE download of the remix album Signia with artists Eraldo Bernocchi, PCM, Surgeon, KK Null and others. Cheers from Pharmafabrik Recordings.

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coolcat77 wrote:
last month

Burzum is kinda black ambient

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JontyGoober wrote:
last month

The perfect accompaniment to a night time walk through woodland

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mattaaba wrote:
August 2008

perfect for late in the night

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Dark_dude wrote:
August 2008

Dark Ambient kicks ass, I'd expect more comments from such a great genre =\

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Kozja wrote:
August 2008

http://ap.mpe.lv or http://muzika.draugiem.lv/music/musician.php?mid=45564 or http://www.myspace.com/ggapzinasparaziti

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KnuckzTVE wrote:
August 2008

DARK AMBIENT FTW

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Templar1199 wrote:
August 2008

I love lying in bed and listen to Dark Abient songs, before I fall asleep

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ihavesoldout wrote:
July 2008

Like ambient but dark

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Shyshka6 wrote:
July 2008

http://www.myspace.com/21gramms21

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