Delegate: The Ambient Zone
Affiliation: Just Music’s imprint The Ambient Zone
Short Bio: We’re an independent record label based in London, UK. We represent the Best in Left of Centre Music.
We believe in working in partnership with our artists to offer the very best in cutting edge electronica, acoustic, ambient & down-tempo.
We release music by renowned artists, such as Jon Hopkins (multiple nominations for Grammy’s & Mercury Prize’s) and Marconi Union (whose song ‘Weightless’ has been streamed over 500m times). ‘Weightless’ has topped a scientific list of the most relaxing pieces of music of all time, scientific research suggesting that it can slow the heart rate, reduce blood pressure and decrease cortisone levels, a steroid hormone that is released in response to stress.
When the research was made public there was an instant and intense worldwide media reaction which continues to this day as the story continues its viral reach across the globe online, in print, on radio and TV.
The song was recently featured on the popular podcast Huberman Lab in an episode entitled ‘How to Use Music to Boost Motivation, Mood & Improve Learning’, where Andrew Huberman, the host and Tenured Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford School of Medicine, discusses how music can benefit one’s health and includes ’Weightless’ as part of his research for the episode. Huberman cites the now famous study that the song has shown evidence to decrease anxiety levels up to 65%, which is as effective in reducing anxiety as one of the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepines.
Activity: For this year’s World Sleep Day, we’re launching a free 24/7 livestream radio on YouTube featuring Marconi Union’s Weightless and their other ambient works, songs by Jon Hopkins and many, many more artists and songs in our catalogue.
The livestream is dedicated for people to listen to whilst they sleep and relax. The livestream’s additional function is to build a community and help each other sleep via the live chat function.
We’ll be scheduling quotes about the importance of sleep from a ChatBot on the livestream.
You can see a preview of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObONBZBZ8mU
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Location: London
Date of Activity: 15th March, 2024
Submitted by: Anton Magnusson
