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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1988
Bill Laswell
Crooklyn Dub Consortium
Crooklyn Dub Outernational
Dronia
Dubadelic
Mentol Nomad
Scorn
Scotty Hard
Sensational
Simm
Slotek
Spectre
Sub Dub
The Bug
The Third Eye Foundation
The Weakener
Wordsound I-Powa
kIRk
The Bug
1988
Bill Laswell
Dronia
Scorn
The Third Eye Foundation
Sensational
Scotty Hard
Spectre
Sub Dub
Simm
Crooklyn Dub Consortium
Dubadelic
Mentol Nomad
Slotek
kIRk
The Weakener
Wordsound I-Powa
Crooklyn Dub Outernational