Editing Ambient music (section)

=== Dark ambient ===
{{Main|Dark ambient}}
{{See also|List of dark ambient artists}}
Brian Eno's original vision of ambient music as unobtrusive musical wallpaper, later fused with warm house rhythms and given playful qualities by the Orb in the 1990s, found its opposite in the style known as dark ambient. Populated by a wide assortment of personalities—ranging from older industrial and metal experimentalists ([[Scorn (band)|Scorn]]'s [[Mick Harris]], [[Current 93]]'s [[David Tibet]], [[Nurse with Wound]]'s [[Steven Stapleton]]) to electronic boffins ([[Kim Cascone]]/PGR, [[Psychick Warriors ov Gaia|Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia]]), [[Japanoise|Japanese noise]] artists ([[K.K. Null]], [[Merzbow]]), and latter-day indie rockers ([[Main (band)|Main]], [[Bark Psychosis]]). 

Dark ambient features toned-down or entirely missing beats with unsettling passages of keyboards, eerie samples, and treated guitar effects. Like most styles related in some way to electronic/dance music of the '90s, it's a very nebulous term; many artists enter or leave the style with each successive release.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dark Ambient: Significant Albums, Artists, and Songs|website=[[AllMusic]]|url=http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/dark-ambient-ma0000011972|access-date=8 July 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621021943/http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/dark-ambient-ma0000011972|archive-date=21 June 2014}}</ref> Related styles include [[ambient industrial]] (see below) and isolationist ambient.