For the better part of my youth I used to think Dark ambient is boring, bullshity brainfart and not music at all. 

Synchs, samples, moans, groans, chains and all of it in slow motion, and yes, the worst of all: my mum likes it. 

It has been around since the 80’s, all the artsy, overly self-absorbed potheads listened to it and it goes on my every last nerve since 1992. 

To say I hated it is a complete understatement. 

But as years went by something changed in my perception. 
It all started as I was painting and needed some music for concentration, I rummaged through my mum’s old records and find couple of albums that looked interesting. 

I picked by album covers that looked specially artsy and to this day I have no idea to what I picked out that day. 

As the sounds started in the complex relations, like a theme for creepy slasher movie, I painted and painted and forgot about the time, all of the sudden this weird mix of ambient, industrial, and doom started sitting right with me. 

It gave me inspiration or better yet, gave me ambient in my head for letting my imagination loose. 

By the way, that painting was for exam and I failed, my work was deemed fantastic but too morbid and I knew right then and there I was on the right track. 

Maybe it is the absence of harmony that makes it great work music, it does not demand attention and it is unassuming background for creating and consuming art. It creates new world for those who listen or just irritating noise for ones who just hear it. 

Or maybe I just needed some years and wisdom behind me on my road before I could actually enjoy it and understand it.