Out of Light – cometh Darkness, dark ambient music and the impulse towards deconstruction



© 2000 Daniel du Prie



1. "These recordings may be seen as a notation of our deadminded society, but not as a reaction against it, we will all become ambient dead heads, if not..." (Archon Satani, In Shelter, liner note, 1994)



If not, then ellipsis. The conditional clause of fact, followed by an open-ended ellipsis, where not only the conjunction between a conditional present and an effected future (then...), but the whole of future time itself is omitted – is a good way to immerse oneself in a description towards a functional definition of a difficult form of a "popular" underground music (I write popular because it is, in critical terms, usually excluded from the domain of "high" culture, or "serious" music, being more aligned with other popular underground genres, eg, industrial, death metal), that would seem to defy the very notion of popularity a priori: I......

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Title: Ambient Music And The Impulse Towards Deconstruction
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