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Ambient Century

UK Edition Release
August 2003
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US Edition Release
September 2003
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UK Edition Release
November 2000
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US Edition Release
January 2001
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Published by
Bloomsbury
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Introductory Essay

Thirty entries including Donna Summer, Garage, Chicago House, Acid House, Detroit Techno, The Art of Noise, A Guy Called Gerald, Ecstasy Rave, The KLF, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Orbital, Enigma, The Orb, Mixmaster Morris, Aphex Twin, Pete Namlook, Bill Laswell, William Orbit, Scanner, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Goldie, Courtney Pine, Talvin Singh, Dub Reggae, Trance, The Chemical Brothers , Air and Moby.

Afterword

Twentieth Century Ambience - the Essential 100 Recordings

Three pages listing the best ambient recordings of the twentieth century, from Mahler's languorous Symphonic Movements to the slow hypnotic ambiences of French lounge-core kings Air.

Bibliography

Six pages of books and articles which everyone should read. Novels, musicology, polemic and sheer inspiration from Marcel Proust to Ian MacDonald.