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  "name": "Dark Ambient (cavernous ritual drone)",
  "family": "electronic",
  "lineage": "Consolidated 1988-1996 through Lustmord's Heresy, Raison d'Etre and the Cold Meat Industry and Soleilmoon labels in Los Angeles, Sweden and the Netherlands — beatless subterranean drone built from processed field recordings of caves, crypts and industrial spaces, detuned low synth beds, bowed metal and gong resonance, distant treated choir, extreme long reverb and near-subsonic bass, with no pulse, melody or vocal line.",
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    "archetype": "arch_german_diy_converted",
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      "medium": "medium_dat_pro_late80s_90s"
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    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
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