Illbient

Illbient is a genre of electronic music and an art movement that originated among hip hop-influenced experimental musicians from New York City in the early 1990s. The word "illbient" combines the hip hop slang term "ill" and "ambient"; DJ Olive and DJ Spooky, pioneers of the genre, have claimed to have coined the term.

emerged ~1992 ↗ see in graph

Sound of Illbient

Cheap Hotel

FKA twigs

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Neon Kitchen

Devon Hendryx

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THE GREAT BAKUNAWA (with Danny Brown)

Quadeca

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I'LL SEE YOU IN 40

Joji

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Phase Interlude

DJ Spooky

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Related Tokens

Acid Alternative Ambient Bass Breakbeat Dance Dark Downtempo Drum Dub Electronic Experimental Hip Hop House IDM Jazz Leftfield Metal Novo Rock Trip Turntablism dubstep electronica garage industrial other post-industrial techno

Sources & Attribution

Source	Entry Name	Confidence	Link	Notes
Last.fm	Illbient	Derived from data	—
Wikipedia	Illbient	Derived from data	↗

This wiki is an homage to these sources. Data may be incomplete — community improvements welcome.