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Ambient sets for clubs and listening events, Ambient Techno, Drone and Dark Ambient: music to sink into, often beatless and often quiet. These DJs and live acts play chill-out floors, concerts and rooms where people listen.
Ambient doesn't ask for attention, it fills a room. Pads that grow slowly, tones that hold for minutes, sounds you only notice the second time you listen. You can lie down to it, talk over it, think, or do nothing at all.
In club culture this music has a fixed place that's easy to miss: the second room. Many long nights have a chill-out floor where you come back to yourself after hours on the dancefloor [CHECK]. Then there are listening events, concerts on floor cushions and exhibitions where sound is part of the art.
There's more under this roof than ambient. Ambient Techno keeps a soft pulse and builds a bridge to the club. Drone stretches single tones almost endlessly. Dark Ambient and Noise are heavy and cold, more thunderstorm than sunshine. Field Recordings and Sound Art work with sounds from the real world, like wind, water or city noise.
Many artists in this field play live, with modular synths, laptops or instruments they built themselves.
Ele
Bern, Switzerland
Ele is one of the forerunners of the Bernese Drum & Bass massive. DJing since 2014, he played at monumental Swiss venues such as Dachstock (BE), Hive (ZH), Schüür (LU), and even abroad in the Netherlands at Liquicity Festival. Founder and head honcho of event label Sturzflug Audio, co-host of the long-running radio show RaBass 95.6 FM at Radio Bern RaBe, a driving force behind the new Lowend Collab Bern project, former resident at Reithalle's underground stronghold Cafete - Ele has been steadily and tirelessly pushing the scene forward. He has a fondness for experimental structures at times, occasionally playing autonomic 170, bass-heavy 140, and ethereal Ambient.
NOVALU
Leipzig, Germany
NOVALU (aka Anis Heit) is a Leipzig-based electronic music producer and media artist. Following multiple years of producing Electronic Bass Music and a variety of emotive Electronic beats, the NOVALU project ventures to manifest his audio-visual perspective.
DJ Kühlschrank
Leipzig, Germany
i assemble frequencies sounding like "boom bap beem, bada bim pap POW!"
NEUROTAKT
Nümbrecht, Germany
NEUROTAKT LIVE-ACT ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE Melodic Techno, Progressive, Dub-Techno und Acid verschmelzen mit analogen Hardware-Synthesizern zu einer energiegeladenen Live-Performance. Mit Hardware-Synthesizern, dynamischen Sequenzen und atmosphärischen Klangwelten entsteht eine einzigartige Performance zwischen Energie, Emotion und hypnotischem Groove. Ohne Laptop – pure Hardware, echte Live-Performance und der unverwechselbare NEUROTAKT Sound. Pure Hardware. Echte Live-Musik. TIME FOR TECHNO.
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