I got into ambient in the 90's. It was a sidestep off of the "new jazz" that was coming out and getting popular. There's a music radio show.....or I guess you'd call it a podcast now........called "Star Streams". I ran across it one weekend when I was trying to find something to listen to on the radio. It happened to be on the new jazz station in Dallas at the time. Fell in love with the music and been addicted to it since. I don't listen to much else anymore.
I saw an installation at the Legion of Honor building in San Francisco many years ago that was a collaboration between Eno, Robert Fripp and (I assume) a Neon artist. It consisted of ever shifting ambient Frippertronics with similarly ever changing neon art.