Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics.
Pioneering explorers of drone music in the past 30 years have included La Monte Young and John Cale's Theater of Eternal Music (aka The Dream Syndicate), Charlemagne Palestine, Eliane Radigue, Kraftwerk, mid-to-present Radiohead, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, Autopsia, Coil, Earth, Aphex Twin, Autechre's side-project Gescom, and Biosphere.
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