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Obviously, it’s had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics.

Bill Laswell

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.
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Computer Electronic Music Opposites
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don’t move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
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Listening Long Moving
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there’s always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
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Atmosphere House Quality
People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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Careers Existence People
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don’t consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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People Play Valuable
Obviously, it’s had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics.
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Play Thinking Years
Sound comes out of a life experience.
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Life Experience Sound
I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that’s inherent.
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Destructive Environment Harder Rhythmic Sound
People are afraid of things they don’t understand.
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Afraid People Understand
There’s an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
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Different Enhance Environmental Sound Way
I put projects together. I put people together.
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People Project Together
What I’m dealing with is sound. I don’t pretend to be dealing with music. I’m just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
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Elements Sound Texture

Obviously, it’s had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics.

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Obviously, it’s had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics.

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