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Pitchfork's the 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time
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"As ignorable as it is interesting." That's the classic definition of ambient music, stated by Brian Eno in 1978 on the sleeve notes to his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. And he should know, since he basically invented the genre three years earlier with his album Discreet Music.
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