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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.
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Years active. 1991-2000. Labels. Asphodel, Home...
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Aug 18, 2014 · Artists, musicians and designers in New York City were creating together, and a new genre—eventually dubbed illbient—was born. August 18, 2014. By Laurent Fintoni. To most people, illbient is a footnote in ‘90s music history, another cold body in the great morgue of modern music categorization. To those that know, illbient was more than ...
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Sep 12, 2023 · Emerging in the 1990s from the underground scenes of New York, illbient is a genre that defies easy categorization. At its core, it’s a fusion, weaving together the atmospheric tones of ambient music with elements of hip-hop, dub, and experimental noise. The term “illbient” is derived from the “ill” and “ambient”.
Centered in New York City (Brooklyn in particular), illbient is a distinctly and consciously urban form of electronic music, aiming to express both the cultural variety and grimy decay of its surroundings. So dubbed by DJ Spooky (the style's defining artist), Illbient's eclectic, atmospheric pastiches are rooted foremost in ambient music, but ...
Illbient is a genre of electronic music and an art movement that originated among hip hop-influenced artists from Williamsburg, New York City around 1994. DJ Olive, and DJ Spooky, pioneers of the genre, have both claimed to have coined the term.
