Style recipe for Suno v5

Drone

Drone music from the 2000s: sustained tone, bowed strings, analog oscillator, hypnotic and spacious in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Drone music builds whole pieces out of held tones, with harmony that barely moves. Sustained sound runs through Indian classical music with its tanpura, Japanese gagaku and Byzantine chant, and in 1949 the artist Yves Klein wrote a Monotone Symphony of one 20-minute chord followed by 20 minutes of silence. The modern genre starts with composer La Monte Young, who grew up fascinated by wind and by the 60-cycle hum of transformers on telephone poles. His Trio for Strings of 1958, which he called the first work made entirely of long tones and silences, led to the Theatre of Eternal Music he founded in 1962, whose members included Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad and John Cale. The group released nothing in its lifetime, yet its concerts reached Stockhausen and Pauline Oliveros. Cale carried the idea into The Velvet Underground, and in 1975 Lou Reed cited Young in the notes to Metal Machine Music. Krautrock bands such as Can and Tangerine Dream took it further. Earth, drawing on the Melvins, founded drone metal, Sunn O))) began as a tribute to Earth, and Tim Hecker and Godspeed You! Black Emperor keep drones at the center of their records.

The recipe

Drone music, 2000s, hypnotic, spacious…

Every descriptor here adds up to 33 tags and 587 characters from the 2000s, clocking in at 40–60 BPM.

Artists in this style

• Fontaines D.C.
• Ladytron
• The Black Angels
• Death in Vegas
• Tim Hecker
• Ben Frost
• Dälek
• Hedningarna
• Rrose
• Éliane Radigue
• Lawrence English
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Kammarheit
• Deathprod

Substyles

• Drone Doom2000s · 40–55 BPM
• Drone Metal2000s · 40–60 BPM
• Drone Ambient2000s · 40–60 BPM
• Isolationist Drone1990s · 30–60 BPM
• Ambient Guitar Drone2010s · 50–70 BPM
• Space Drone2000s · 30–65 BPM
• Ambient Drone2010s · 40–60 BPM
• Guitar Drone2010s · 40–60 BPM
• Harmonic Drone1970s · 40–55 BPM
• Minimal Drone1990s · 40–55 BPM
• Noise Drone2000s · 40–60 BPM
• Ambient Sludge2010s · 50–70 BPM