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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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September 2008
Friday 12 September 2008
Earthdance 2008 at Black River Falls Robert Rich, Gherg On Earth	Black River Falls Black River Falls, WI, United States	Add shout
Saturday 13 September 2008
Delerium Elsiane, Morgan Page	The Showbox Seattle, United States	6 people attending 1 shout
Monday 15 September 2008
Delerium	The Great American Music Hall San Francisco, United States	4 people attending Add shout
Tuesday 16 September 2008
Delerium	House of Blues San Diego, United States	2 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Delerium Elsiane, Morgan Page	El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, United States	Add shout
Thursday 18 September 2008
Delerium	House of Blues Los Angeles, United States	2 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets

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Dark_dude wrote:
Tuesday evening

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

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Kozja wrote:
10 days ago

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:
11 days ago

DARK AMBIENT FTW

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Templar1199 wrote:
26 days ago

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

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ihavesoldout wrote:
last month

Like ambient but dark

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Shyshka6 wrote:
last month

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

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