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modular aficionado out there, ambient music will most likely be on your radar, even if it’s an area you haven’t dabbled in. But what does ambient mean and how do you start creating it? Well, the answers to both questions are many and varied, so let’s start with the first. Ambient can be classed as dark, cyberpunk, meditative and much more but the common thread running throughout all subnoise, to be appreciated in the background while they work or sleep. Certain sub genres do feature lead instruments but even then they tend to be wandering and don’t adhere to the usual verse, chorus structures of non-ambient music. You’ll likely find these in the sub-sub-genre of style music. Much ambient music is bedded in the idea of a slowly evolving drone. Most categories use this as a foundation, sometimes with a natural element like rain or wind sounds, which help tie everything together and form a subtle background to the synth parts.
