For about the last 6 months I’ve been getting into what I call electronic music and ambient music. I don’t know all the sub-genres yet. Basically Amethystium, Tangerine Dream, etc, get lumped into ‘electronic’. Carbon based lifeforms, Eluvium, some Cochteau, Sigur Rós, Biosphere get called 'ambient', etc.
Anyway, it seems many of the songs make use of crackling noises and static sounding stuff. It makes me think something is wrong with my equipment until I get used to the song. Anyone else notice this?
Some do exaggerate it which makes a would-be cool album go to waste. Tim Hecker is such an example. On the other hand we have the Xerrox Part 2 album by Alva Noto who uses it perfectly in my opinion.
