Definitions for "Illbient"
This style often combines elements of Dub, Hip-Hop and Drum 'n' Bass, with dark & eerie atmospheres.
Illbient is a term coined by DJ Olive to describe the iconoclastic music being produced by a community of artists based in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in the early 1990s. The word "Illbient" is a portmanteau of the hip hop slang term "ill" (a positive expression: bad meaning good) and "ambient".