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Beneath (or above) a  world full of melodic music with lyrics about love, hate, sex, violence, happiness, sadness, occasionaly a dog, a bar, a farm, and any combination of the above, there lies a world with no lyrics, no melody, and occasionally, no music.

This is the world of dark ambient.

It consists of some of the most terrifying and surreal soundscapes you’ll ever come across, and it’s more often than not [delivered quite violently] with harsh noises, unexpected sounds, and horrible emotions. Needless to say, the people interested in this genre of music are few and far between. The same applies to the artists. Theres an unfortunately small number of producers and record labels that create this subconciously intense noise.

Desiderii Marginis, with 9 full length releases and 10 compilation appearences  to date, is one of the most seasoned and deserving artists of recognition. Johan Levin, a swedish archaeologist at the meuseum of Ostergotland, started Desiderii Marginis as a solo project as early as 1993 as a means to release music that wasn’t acceptable to release under his main band (at that time), The Wounded Meadow.

Desiderii Marginis is deep, dark, and more than capable of changing your entire outlook on life, atleast while your listening to his albums. He has quite a few drone like sound scapes and some of the most powerful and emotion altering noises in the industry. His prodution is flawless and his personal expression is clearly articulated through his music.

Incase you’ve come across this article in search of dark ambient artists, I’ve put together a list which I’ll updating regularly, which you can find here.

Promoe is basically fucking awesome. You’ve probably heard him while listening to Looptroop as early as ‘92, and never even noticed. According to my iPod I’ve listened to Promoe about 680 times in the last year with an almost non existant skip count. I’d say that’s pretty good.

If you have any interest in a hard blend of Raggae and Hip-hop from a crazy swedish white boy with a lot to say about life, politics, and the swedish street art scene, then start spending a lot of time listening to Promoe. Easily one of the best MC’s out there right now.

Why? Why do people insist on tagging artists with the artists name, or other artists name?

For example, Nine Inch Nails, is tagged as Nine Inch Nails. No, really? Are we sure this is NIN? Might we forget that Nine Inch Nails is in fact, Nine Inch Nails, if we don’t tag it as such?

Heres an example of tagging artists with other artists names. Boards of Canada, Error Unknown, and Thalassa are all tagged Aphex Twin. Guess what. None of those artists are Aphex Twin.

Can we at least all make the extra effort to put “music like” in front of the artist your comparing it too? For example, Squarepusher could be tagged “music like aphex twin“. Its literally only 10 extra characters. It seems like a small price to pay to not look like a retarded bastard who’s cluttering Last.fm with stupid tags.

Arguably, there are some cases where it may have a point. In the instance of artists like Aphex Twin and Syndrone who have recorded under multiple names. But for the sake of organization and cleanliness, can we just not? You know that Polygon Window is Aphex Twin, so is it really necessary to tag it as Aphex Twin?

That is all.