What is downtempo to you?

Here are a few of my thoughts.

For me downtempo can be broken down into various genres:

Trip-Hop,
Electronica,
Ambient,
Dub,
Chill Out, etc.

But it is a lot more than this. It can either be very electronic in nature or utilise all acoustic instruments.

It can utilise soft whispering female vocals, melodic rappers, obscure vocal samples, or be purely instrumental.

With influences from Classical, World and Reggae to Hip-Hop and Electro.

It tends to reside within a low range of BPM (beats per minute), 50-90 and tends to relax, and evoke feeling - causing the head to nod rather than your body to dance, and will often take you to another world.

Some people term it background, dinner party/coffee table music or even Muzak. But for those who appreciate music rather than washes of unconnected sounds - will appreciate what we all mean by DownTempo Heaven.

Peace.

-LoveDownTempo