Illbient

Illbient is an experimental music genre that fuses ambient soundscapes with elements of hip-hop, dub, and industrial, often incorporating atmospheric layers of sound to create a dark, moody, and urban-inflected auditory experience. Characterized by its subterranean basslines, the music frequently utilizes disjointed breakbeats and a collage of samples, ranging from spoken word to environmental noises, to craft an immersive, otherworldly soundscape. This form of downtempo music tends to emphasize a trippy, psychedelic quality, evoking the sensation of drifting through a decaying cityscape or an abstract, electronic dreamscape. The genre, represented by artists like Scorn and Spectre, harbors an avant-garde attitude, aiming to disorient and envelop listeners in a dense fog of sonic texture that blurs the lines between genre boundaries.

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Machines I - V
Album - 21 Tracks - Released October 4, 2024
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  1. October 4, 2024
  2. October 4
  3. September 26
  4. September 9
  5. September 5
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    Paths
    1 tracks
  10. February 5
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  12. January 26
  13. December 13, 2023
  14. October 13
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  16. August 18
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  28. January 12
  29. December 3, 2022
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    Alyona
    1 tracks
  30. December 3
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    Nadir
    1 tracks
  31. December 3
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    Witold
    1 tracks
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    K.
    6 tracks
  34. October 24
  35. October 13
  36. October 7
  37. May 27
  38. March 25
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  40. December 10, 2021
  1. October 4, 2024
  2. September 26
  3. September 9
  4. October 13, 2023
  5. August 18
  6. July 14
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    K.
    6 tracks
  9. October 13
  10. October 7
  11. May 27
  12. March 25
  13. January 21
  14. December 10, 2021
  15. November 26
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  17. August 27
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    Fire
    14 tracks
  18. June 18
  19. June 4
  20. April 16
  1. October 4, 2024
  2. September 5
  3. August 22
  4. August 22
  5. May 3
  6. February 19
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    Paths
    1 tracks
  7. February 5
  8. February 2
  9. January 26
  10. December 13, 2023
  11. October 2
  12. June 25
  13. June 23
  14. May 19
  15. May 10
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  17. March 28
  18. March 8
  19. March 3
  20. January 27