Illbient

Illbient refers to a style of music that is indeed associated with the electronic music genre to moderate but can not be classified accurately and musically is seen as contrary to Ambient.

Illbient contains both elements of electronic music, as well as the rock, hip -hop and dub and some noise. Using Cuts and samples from these elements a kind of sound structures from different music fragments generated with electronic devices, which usually sounds unrhythmical and unmelodic.

Since Illbient largely considered a " untanzbar ", this kind of electronic music, the commercial success was largely denied. At the scene of the international music scene Illbient first appeared in the early 1990s. As a pioneer and also the most successful artists of the genre applies DJ Spooky (especially the album " Songs of a Dead Dreamer "). Other pioneering artists of this style of music are for example: Squarepusher, Mouse on Mars, Console, Byzar, as well as the founder of Word Sound label sketches Fernando Jr. (known as Spectre III and The Saint ).

In his appearance phase until the mid- 1990s Illbient by critics of various music magazines was mostly well received and referred to as the last great innovation of electronic music.