Okay - take The Orb as a starting point. They're not illbient, it's just a familiar place to start. Now take away The Orb's ecstasy, but let them keep their blow, and then give them another darker drug. Then sit them in a darkened room, with dub reggae paying on one side, and ambient playing on the other. Leave them in there for a week. Then put them in a recording studio and tell them to make a record based on their experiences of the last week.
That record would probably be illbient.
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