Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Music for Airports named a genre in its own sleeve notes and remains in literal use as music, playing in airports and countless rooms. Eno made the definition practical rather than theoretical: music designed to alter a space from its edges. Its distance from the dancefloor later gave rave culture a model for the chill-out room.

Tape loops of different lengths, drifting against each other, written for a terminal and delivered as something closer to grace. It named the category and then set a standard the category has mostly failed to reach.