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    Ambient House and Ambient Pop shouldn't be listed. They are house/pop sub-genres.
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … Ambient Dub is fine?
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … It's definitely more ambient than dub. Dark Ambient, Tribal Ambient and Ritual Ambient should also be included. Psybient probably too.
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … Done!
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    • chemical
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      Editing … Um, actually, you're wrong, Magwaza. Ambient house is actually ambient. Ambient pop, however, is not. Ambient House was pioneered by Brian Eno and if you know your ambient history, he is pretty much one of the main people who got the genre on the map back in the day. Ambient house is actual ambient.
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      Editing … Also, can these genres be added: Drone, Illbient, Ethereal Wave, Ambient Techno, Trip Hop, Minimalism, and New Age? There's also 3 genres that really need adding to the site as a whole and to this inclusion: Ambient Breaks, Ambient Trance and Ambient Psy. Pweeze and thank you? <3
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      Editing … Also, Ambient House needs added back. :(
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    • IceTheRetroKid
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      Editing … Look if it has the word Ambient in the genre, just leave it!!!
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … Yep, Ambient House was my mistake, but I don't agree with everything you wrote. Minimalism doesn't have to be ambient, it's its own thing. Trip hop songs can be very ambient-heavy, but that's not enough too add the whole genre (same reason as Ambient pop). You might as well add post-rock because of bands like Sigur Rós https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xow2gnVTUjs. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. Most of these genres should have their own lists.
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      Editing … Trip hop has its roots in the ambient genre pretty firmly. Sure, it has some breakbeat nuances, but a lot of its influence is ambient in nature. The wikipedia article on the genre cites several ambient sub-genres as being its influence. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_hop ). As far as minimalism goes, you can look up a man named Steve Reich and a lot of his music will describe very accurately what "minimalism" is.
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      Editing … +1000 for including Trip Hop !! @Pape Badiane ... Also, wow @@Chemical Reaction I'm impressed how much you know about electronic music!
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      Editing … It's my favourite music in the world. Nothing makes me happier. <3
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … I'm not a specialist at all, but shouldn't trip hop have its own list? Wiki says "it has several qualities similar to ambient music" but it doesn't seem to be the same.
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … Yep that's my whole point Pape. It's silly to include every genre that has ambient elements. That would be like including folk metal in a "favortite folk songs" list.
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      Editing … Well technically Trip Hop should have its own list, but we won't be getting that one any time soon, so I'll rather just rank all my favorite Trip Hop songs now instead of waiting another six months until it eventually maybe wins in the weekly poll.
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      Editing … Magwaza, again, I really really don't want to get on your bad side, but I've been into electronic music quite heavily for 20 years now. I'm very fluent in the genre and know what is what. I really think that what I listed, Drone, Illbient, Ethereal Wave, Ambient Techno, Trip Hop, Minimalism, and New Age, need to be on the list. They all have roots firmly in ambient. I'm not sure why you're resisting this. I hope you realize that a good portion of genres won't make it on the site for a very long time and that root genres such as ambient really do need to have their sub-sub genres listed.\
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