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 ...

Thought ambient music had been drowned in a sea of new age nonsense and chill out? Think again! Artists such as Sun O))) and the Orb are giving the genre new hope For a good five or six decades, you ...

Set to be introduced for the first time at this year's edition, the Essen-based festival's new ambient and experimental stage will be more than a "chillout zone" ...

What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer. While the genre of ‘ambient’ is fairly well established, the exact rules of what makes something ambient aren’t rigidly ...

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 ...

In just four years, the Toronto label has rewritten the rules of ambient success in the world of streaming music Ambient music has exploded on streaming services, as listeners turn to abstract ...

Hours-long tones of lingering drones. Chords shifting nearly imperceptibly over time. The lilt of a dream-like soundscape, from dusk till the first hint of morning light. This is what one might ...

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.

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 ...