Description
Ambient music using sweeping and gradual synthesisers with ‘cosmic’ qualities
- Utilises sequencers and cosmic synthesisers played gradually to create a sweeping effect reminiscent of Drone music.
- Features ascending and descending rhythms that are subtly enhanced with nearly imperceptible patterns, resulting in a distant and resonating psychedelic sound
- Artwork and track titles often incorporate space and science fiction themes
- Often overlaps with New age
History
Emerged in the early 1970s from the more ambient side of the Berlin School of Progressive Electronic (e.g.: Tangerine Dream). Major New Age overlap and influence in the genre’s later development