is a musical category founded in the late 1980s that is used to describe
Acid House featuring
Ambient Music elements and atmospheres. Tracks in the ambient house genre typically feature
Four-on-the-floor beats,
Synth Pads , and vocal samples integrated in an atmospheric style."Ambient House", ''
All Music Guide '' (Retrieved
October 4 ,
2006 ). Ambient house tracks generally lack a
Diatonic center and feature much
Atonality along with synthesized chords.
The ambient house movement began in the late 1980s largely due to the demand for post-, 2003. Out of Paterson and Cauty's sessions at Trancentral studio, came Cauty and
Bill Drummond 's
KLF album ''
Chill Out '' (which featured no credit to Paterson). As possibly the first ambient house album, ''
The Grove Dictionary Of Music '' describes it as "a 1980s pop culture version of
Musique Concrète ". After splitting from The Orb, Cauty finished work on his own album ''
Space '', and Paterson's Orb went on to create the single "
Little Fluffy Clouds " – both important works of ambient house. In 1991, The Orb released the album ''
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld '', featuring both of their previous singles. Combining
Moog Synthesizer s with religious
Chorales and audio clips of the
Apollo 11 rocket launch, The Orb popularized the "spacy" sound of ambient house.
While The KLF retired in 1992, The Orb released their most successful ambient house single "
Blue Room ", which peaked at #8 on the
UK Singles Chart . At forty minutes, it was the longest single to reach the UK charts. An edited form of it appeared on The Orb album ''
U.F.Orb '' later that year. ''U.F.Orb'' brought in
Dub influences as well into ambient house. In the years after the release of their live album, ''
Live 93 '', The Orb largely abandoned the ambient house sound in favor of more "metallic" music.
Ambient house was taken up in large part by artists such as
Juno Reactor ,
Pete Namlook , and
Tetsu Inoue .
