illbient
Sign in to saveIllbient 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. The word "illbient" combines the hip hop slang term "ill" and "ambient"; DJ Olive and DJ Spooky, pioneers of the genre, have claimed to have coined the term.
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- Music genre.name
- Illbient
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Ambient music downtempo trip hop East Coast hip hop dub music jungle post-industrial avant-garde
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Early 1990s, New York City
- Music genre.other_topics
- Nu jazz IDM psybient hauntology dark ambient dubstep
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- 1994-01-01
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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. The word "illbient" combines the hip hop slang term "ill" and "ambient"; DJ Olive and DJ Spooky, pioneers of the genre, have claimed to have coined the term.
Though there are many individualistic variants of illbient, the music is characterized by dub- and industrial-influenced layering of beats and soundscapes, hip hop-influenced use of breaks and samples, and a progressive approach to beat programming that encompasses many forms of world music and electronic music.