[Justin Uthadude]

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?

 

[ANinjaBurrito]

One song from The Murcury Project, Marianas, the last 3 minutes is a weird complete static loop, that when I first heard it I thought that I had blew out my amp or something. >.>

 

[tasteful]

Perhaps the idea of something being broken or lo-fi. Not your actual equipment. 

 

[moriez]

It creates atmosphere, ''ambience'' 

 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.
 
Calling all ambient artists to go easy on the hiss!

 

[CastanonY]

Quote:

It creates atmosphere, ''ambience'' 

This is what it makes this music genre different from others. 

 

[virometal]

Yeah, it stems deep from the electronic Krautrockers like Faust who experimented with sine wave soundscapes; pretty seminal in the development of electronic music.