Hauntology

Hauntology is a type of music, influenced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the vague sense of cold war dread present in public information films from the 1980s, along with an acknowledged debt in both sound and sleeve design from library music. The concept of what people in previous decades imagined the future would be like is a key element of the hauntology sound.

The influence of hauntology can be heard in some dubstep, particularly Burial, as well as trip-hop and ambient.