“what is music but organized noises?“

— Edgard Varèse

I think that the first piece of music I heard that could be described as ambient (although was probably actually ambient house) was The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds.  This track received considerable radio play after its release in the 1990s and was much loved among university students. 

After that, I was subsequently introduced by various people to Chill Out by The KLF, Tony Scott’s Music for Zen Meditation and numerous other pieces of ambient music.

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