Neptune Towers is a dark ambient

Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...

 side-project formed in 1993 by Fenriz

Fenriz

Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...

 of Darkthrone

Darkthrone

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Background

Neptune Towers' stated goal is "To enable the listeners to keep both feet off the ground." Fenriz credits Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze

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 of Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

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 as a big inspiration. In an interview, Fenriz said he was influenced by Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

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 which can be heard in the use of elaborate sequencers

Music sequencer

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 in Transmissions from Empire Algol. It is characterized by a very slow-paced minimalistic atmosphere.

Discography

• Caravans To Empire Algol
  Caravans to Empire Algol
  Caravans To Empire Algol is the first album by the ambient project Neptune Towers. It was released on December 12, 1994 by Moonfog. Fenriz considers this to be the first of the two chapters of the "Empire Algol" saga, the second being the next Neptune Towers album, "Transmissions From Empire...
  
   (1994)
• Transmissions From Empire Algol
  Transmissions from Empire Algol
  Transmissions from Empire Algol is the second album by the ambient project Neptune Towers, a follow up to 1994's Caravans to Empire Algol expanding on the same conception and similar sound. It was released in 1995 by Moonfog Records.- Track listing :...
  
  (1995)
• Space Lab - unreleased (1996)