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As the term says, experimental is a genre characterised by an attitude of sound experimentation. It includes diverse styles and aesthetics such as noise, glitch, isolationism, clicks and cuts, and minimalism.

The pioneers of experimental electronic music where composers that during the second half of the last century started looking for new musical forms, such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Oskar Sala, Steve Reich, and Xenakis.
This heritage of experimentalism was taken by the krautrock scene in the late 60’s by artists like Conrad Schnitzler, Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Faust. They all influenced to the forthcoming generation of sound experimenters in the 80’s and 90’s. Other important artists in sound experimentation during the 60s and 70s were psychedelic rock and progressive rock artists such as Cream, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Yes, to name a few, who used to spend long sessions of sound investigation and experimentation throughout their productions.

In the 90’s, post rock represented the rock music style most oriented to sound experimentation, especially in the use of analog effects and distorssion and feedback, which was first used by early psychedelic rock guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Beff Beck, Jimmy Page and Syd Barrett.