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soundscape

Last updated: Tue Oct 21 2025 04:04:17 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Soundscape is an atmospheric genre that creates immersive sonic environments through layered textures, ambient sounds, and minimalist composition. It emphasizes mood and space over traditional song structures, often incorporating field recordings, drones, and cinematic elements. The genre serves both meditative and narrative purposes, finding applications in film scores, relaxation settings, and experimental music contexts.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
70		1975	Bernard Parmegiani	De Natura Sonorum	drone electroacoustic france musique concrete soundscape	electroacoustic # 57 musique concrete # 87
6		1977	Various Artists	Autumntunes	8-bit chiptune electronica instrumental progressive rock chillout electronic electropop exotica futurepop soundscape soundtrack	exotica # 30
14		1977	Various Artists	Wintertunes	8-bit chiptune electronic electronica electropop exotica fusion futurepop glitch pop instrumental math rock neoclassical nu jazz progressive pop progressive rock romance soundscape soundtrack	exotica # 34
61		1981	Sven Grünberg	Hingus	ambient electronic estonia estonian ethereal europe european new age one man band one man project progressive electronic soundscape	one man project # 92 one man band # 93 estonian # 94 estonia # 97
87		1983	Robert Rich	Drones	ambient drone soundscape
23		1986	Nasa	Symphonies of the Planets	ambient noise soundscape
27		1987	Steve Roach	Trance Archeology	experimental electronic improvisation soundscape	experimental electronic # 52 improvisation # 63
55		1987	Robert Rich	Numena	ambient dark ambient soundscape
77		1992-04-06	Barry Adamson	Soul Murder	alternative rock soundscape
35		1995	Ataraxia	La Malédiction d'Ondine	ambience ambient contemporary classical dark ambient darkwave ethereal female vocalists neoclassical neofolk soundscape spiritual	ambience # 91
10		1995	The Grid	Leviathan	ambient soundscape
29		1997	Pan•American	Pan•American	ambient ambient dub bass deep ambient post-rock soundscape	ambient dub # 52 deep ambient # 80
57		1997	David Holmes	Lets Get Killed	dance electronic new york soundscape	new york # 6
33		1997	Humpback Whales	Songs Of The Humback Whale	soundscape
89		1997	Mine	Mine	country folk jazz pop soundscape world
86		1997-05-30	Fresh Moods	Fresh Moods	downbeat lounge new age soul soundscape	downbeat # 78
53		1997-07-01	Social Interiors	Traces Of Mercury	electronic soundscape
48		1998	Chris Watson	Outside the Circle of Fire	ambient field recordings soundscape	field recordings # 31
50		1998	Robert Rich	Below Zero	dark ambient ambient	deep ambient # 53
92		1998	Susumu Yokota	Magic Thread	japanese soundscape yoga	yoga # 90
1		1998	Bang On A Can	Brian Eno: Music For Airports (Live)	ambient
7		1998	Robert Rich	Seven Veils	ambient
85		1998-03-04	Bruno Sanfilippo	Solemnis	soundscape instrumental
9		2000-06-06	Jonn Serrie	Century Seasons	ambient chillout electronic soundscape space ambient
84		2000-06	Saafi Brothers	Midnight's Children	psydub soundscape	psydub # 91
32		2001-01	Ilpo Väisänen	Asuma	glitch soundscape
74		2002	Peter Phippen	Night Song	ambient ritual ambient soundscape	ritual ambient # 67
68		2002-06-18	Terra Ambient	The Darker Space	soundscape
45		2003	Ataraxia	Des Paroles Blanches	ambience ambient contemporary classical dark ambient darkwave deep ambient ethereal female vocalists italian folk italy neoclassical neofolk sacred soundscape soundtrack spiritual	italy # 37 deep ambient # 84 italian folk # 90 sacred # 91 ambience # 93
3		2003-02-07	Male Or Female	Invented Scenes	ambient ambient industrial ambient noise breakbeat dark ambient downtempo ebm industrial industrial rock new beat soundscape	new beat # 66 ambient industrial # 77 ambient noise # 79
71		2003-06-25	Carbon Based Lifeforms	Hydroponic Garden	ambient	ambient # 34
69		2003-07-30	Colleen	'everyone alive wants answers'	ambient soundscape
65		2003-11-17	Charalambides	Unknown Spin	ambient folk soundscape
21		2004	Oöphoi	Mare Tranquillitatis	drone ambient ambient deep ambient	drone ambient # 87 deep ambient # 91
17		2004	Various Artists	::FALLING:: an earth monkey compilation	ambient drone electronic electronica glitch idm instrumental soundscape
20		2004-04-14	Ataraxia	Saphir	darkwave neoclassical neofolk	neomedieval # 73 deep ambient # 76 italian folk # 85 sacred # 86 ambience # 88
8		2004-05-25	Robert Rich	Calling Down the Sky	ambient
41		2005	Aesma Daeva	Dark Decryption	soundscape
26		2005-03-21	Brian Eno	More Music for Films	ambient
58		2005-07-26	Doc & Lena Selyanina	Distant Transmissions	ambient soundscape
73		2006	Modus	The Colour of Love	new age ambient electronic trip-hop world fusion chillout	breaks # 2 spiritual # 38 psybient # 42 indian # 46 ethnic # 63 india # 66 downbeat # 77 oriental # 88 world fusion # 89 ethno # 94 psychill # 97
37		2006	Andy Kirk	I Used To Dance, Now I Romance
18		2006-02-15	Manassas	live at the cavendish	ambient dark ambient downtempo electronic electronica experimental rock glitch idm instrumental lo-fi soundscape
81		2006-12-16	Celestial Aeon Project	Aeon 3	ambient instrumental soundscape	new romantic # 33
39		2007	Bram Stadhouders	Tonelist	electronic soundscape
96		2007	Jefre Cantu-Ledesma	Shining Skull Breath	ambient drone glitch minimalism noise soundscape
83		2007-02-13	Moskitoo	Drape	electronic japanese soundscape
25		2007-03-07	Sora Shima	Distancing EP	drone post-rock soundscape
38		2007-04-01	Gel-Sol	Unifactor	soundscape
44		2007-05-30	The Beautiful Schizophonic	Musicamorosa	ambient electronic french soundscape
52		2007-06-01	Machinefabriek	Dass	ambient electronic instrumental soundscape
19		2007-12-07	Miika Kuisma	Sententia	ambience deep ambient soundscape space ambient	deep ambient # 75 ambience # 87
11		2008	William Fowler Collins	Western Violence & Brief Sensuality	lattice soundscape	lattice # 66
28		2008	Parachute	Heaku Bervisz	ambient drone ambient dark ambient electronic soundscape	drone ambient # 80
15		2008	Deepspace	Another Empty Galaxy	ambient soundscape
100		2008	Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard	The Dark Knight - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	instrumental soundscape soundtrack
36		2008-01-06	Aidan Baker	Fragile Movements In Slow Motion	drone minimalism soundscape
75		2008-04-14	Christopher Bissonnette	In Between Words	ambient
31		2008-07-09	Arcticology	Music for Daydreamers	ambient electronic soundscape
5		2008-08-26	The Sight Below	No Place For Us EP	ambient techno america american seattle soundscape	america # 33
99		2009	Riverside	Eye of the Soundscape	dark ambient industrial rock soundscape	dark ambient # 2
90		2009	Helios	Unreleased Vol. 1	ambient chillout electronic post-rock soundscape
64		2009-01-30	Chubby Wolf	L'histoire	soundscape
95		2009-01	Emeralds	What Happened	ambient drone	drone # 19
51		2009-02	36	Hypersona	ambient
4		2009-05-12	J.S. Epperson	Deltadream - Binaural Sleep Beats	ambient drone meditation new age soundscape
93		2009-05-25	Worriedaboutsatan	Arrivals	ambient dub ambient techno deep techno dub techno illbient noise post-rock soundscape	ambient techno # 52 dub techno # 61 deep techno # 86 ambient dub # 89 illbient # 92
62		2009-07-27	The Echelon Effect	Reunion	ambient instrumental post-rock soundscape
16		2009-07	Arcticology	Eternal Now	ambient electronic soundscape
98		2010-07-08	Marconi Union	A Lost Connection	ambient soundscape
54		2010-07-30	Field Rotation	Why Things Are Different	ambient electronic instrumental soundscape
2		2010-10	Yui Onodera & Celer	Generic City	ambient field recordings instrumental soundscape world
63		2011-01-31	Field Rotation	Acoustic Tales	ambient electronic instrumental soundscape
43		2011-02-25	Aidan Baker	Within The Final Circle	ambient drone soundscape
91		2011-05-09	Field Rotation	And tomorrow I will sleep	ambient electronic instrumental soundscape
12		2011-07-11	Machine Code	Environments	ambience ambient cyberpunk industrial soundscape	ambience # 86
88		2011-11-11	Jeremy Soule	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Original Game Soundtrack	soundtrack	orchestral # 22 orchestra # 78
97		2012-06-25	Subatomic Dreams	elements	ambient dark ambient drone soundscape electronic electronica instrumental chillout
78		2012-08-03	Ricky Eat Acid	ambien music	ambient one man band one man project soundscape	one man band # 96 one man project # 97
30		2012-08-14	Australasia	Sin4tr4	soundscape
82		2012-09-05	Navarone	A Darker Shade of White	alternative alternative rock blues brass classic rock dutch grunge industrial netherlands pop rock rock soul soundscape	dutch # 23 brass # 83 netherlands # 90
34		2012-11-07	Brian Eno	Lux	ambient
94		2012-12-21	Theophany	Time's End: Majora's Mask Remixed	ambient instrumental soundscape
13		2013-01-23	S1gns Of L1fe	Language of the Ancients	ambient drone electronic soundscape synthesizer	synthesizer # 63
72		2014-10-21	Endless Melancholy	Fragile	alternative ambient chillout composer contemporary classical contemporary instrumental contemporary piano electroacoustic electronic ethereal instrumental minimalism neoclassical new age orchestral piano piano ambient post-rock postclassical solo piano soundscape soundtrack ukraine ukrainian	piano ambient # 23 ukrainian # 23 composer # 32 electroacoustic # 58 ukraine # 67 postclassical # 71 solo piano # 74 contemporary piano # 81 contemporary instrumental # 87
76		2015-03-30	Marsen Jules	The Empire of Silence	ambient germany neoclassical soundscape	germany # 46
46		2015-11-09	Markus Guentner	Theia	ambient ambient electronic electronic soundscape	ambient electronic # 70
22		2015-12-04	Astor Piazzolla	Tango Sensations	soundscape tango
40		2016-02-05	Ketil Bjørnstad	Suite For Sampler.Selected Signs, II		piano jazz # 8
67		2016-02-24	Hotel Neon	Remnants	ambient drone field recordings iceland meditation noise soundscape	field recordings # 50 iceland # 55
66		2017-10-25	Simon Stålenhag	The Electric State	ambient electronic soundscape soundtrack
49		2018-07-15	Celestial Aeon Project	Enchanted Forest	ambience ambient soundscape	ambience # 95
42		2021-02-07	Loathe	The Things They Believe
56		2021-12-17	ASC	No Stars Without Darkness	ambient soundscape
80		2022	Zoviet France	Decriminalisation Of Country Music	soundscape
60		2023	Various Artists	[Komfort.Labor] Presents ~Scape	soundscape
24			R'Yatis	R'YATIS - In'Rayatis	ambient chillout electronic electronica india meditation new age soundscape soundtrack synthesizer trance	india # 36 synthesizer # 70
47			Infrasound System	Space Theories	ambient chillout deep ambient soundscape soundtrack	deep ambient # 87
79			The Jepettos	What You Said - Single	folk soundscape
59			Christopher Seufert	Cape Cod Soundscapes, Vol. 11: Sounds of the Cape Cod National Seashore

Related genres

• ambient
• electronic
• drone
• dark ambient
• instrumental
• noise
• electronica
• chillout
• soundtrack
• new age