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.

The Calm

Dronia

Single - Released October 11, 2024