What it is, what to hear first, and what sits next to it.
Ambient Techno is a slower, more relaxed form of Techno, incorporating the minimal elements often found in Ambient music. Tracks may remain still essentially beat-driven, as in the early works of Aphex Twin. The other end of the spectrum is a more atmospheric, layered approach, such as that shown by Biosphere and Gas. It is a 1990s offshoot of techno and ambient music that united the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the melodic and rhythmic elements of techno and electro. .