Ambient industrial is a hybrid genre of ambient and industrial music; the term industrial being used in the original experimental sense, rather than in the sense of industrial metal or EBM. Ambient industrial makes use of Industrial principles such as use of anti-music, extra-musical elements and shock tactics, but wields these elements with more subtlety. Additionally, ambient industrial often has strong occultist tendencies, with a particular leaning toward Chaos Magick (the image of the Black Sun is one that comes up repeatedly in post-Industrial music), often giving the music a highly ritualistic flavor. Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. ... Field recording is the technique for capturing the audible illustration of an environment. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizers in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Industrial metal is a musical genre which draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... EBM can be an acronym for: electronic body music evidence-based medicine Everybody But Microsoft - A virtual group that acts as a competitor to Microsoft and its partners. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ... Chaos magic is a relatively new form of ceremonial magic, generally involving paradigm shifting and empty-handed rituals. ... Post-industrial is a term used mainly by a number of industrial music enthusiasts to refer to a grouping of music genres related to the original industrial music movement. ...

Ambient industrial is one of several directions that post-Industrial music took on after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle (the founders of Industrial as an art movement) in 1981 ended the Industrial period proper. Indeed, the last material that TG recorded, at least in the studio, Journey Through a Body and In the Shadow of the Sun, was ambient industrial work and pointed to the direction that several of TG's offshoots (most notably Coil and CTI) would take. Throbbing Gristle in 1978 (From left to right: Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson) Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975 in London) are a British experimental music and Industrial Music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ...

Among the many artists who work in this area are Coil, CTI, Lustmord, Hafler Trio, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, PGR, Thomas Koner, Controlled Bleeding, and Deutsch Nepal. It is important to note, however, that many of these artists are very eclectic in their output, with much of it falling outside of ambient industrial per se. A coil is a series of loops. ... Computer telephony integration, also referred to as CTI, is technology that allows interactions on a telephone and a computer to be integrated or co-ordinated. ... Lustmord is also a German and Swedish word that means, lust murder. Brian Lustmord Williams is a musician in the subgenre of dark ambient. ... The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art group that has released numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, trance, environmental sound-scape, musique concrete, electro-acoustic, and audio-montage as cinema for the ears from 1986 to present, each of which... Nocturnal Emissions is sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music and noise music. ... Zoviet france (also known as Soviet France, and also written as :zoviet*france:) is a fairly prolific industrial music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in Northern England. ... PGR could refer to: a television content rating level used in New Zealand - see TV Parental Guidelines Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne - state owned farm in Peoples Republic of Poland Progessive Rail, Inc. ... Controlled Bleeding were an experiment / industrial band formed in 1979 by Paul Lemos and Chris Moriarty, and later joined by Joe Papa. ...

A "typical" ambient industrial work (if there is a such thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms, bullroarers, distorted voices and/or anything else the artist might care to sample (often processed to the point where the original sample is no longer recognizable). Entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings (Arecibo Trans-Plutonian Transmissions), the babbling of newborn babies (Nocturnal Emissions Mouths of Babes), or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires (Alan Lamb's Primal Image). Drone can refer to: Male honeybees - see drone (bee) In music, a continuous note or chord - see drone (music) Shortened form of the music genre known as dronology An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), often used for target practice In the fictional Star Trek universe, a humanoid enslaved by the Borg...

See also

• Dark ambient