Downtempo
A playlist of sorts. Or a vibe. A group of artists I enjoy hearing together. Musical categories such as Trip Hop and Rhythm and Blues apply, but others do, too. There’s a good beat and you can dance to it, but it’s slower than disco or EDM. Sometimes elegant, sometimes soulful, but almost always a great baseline.
Begin with Compilations
Buddha-Bar series
Café del Mar series
Hed Kandi Winter Chill series (late 90s, early 2000s CDs)
Hotel Tara
Rendezvous Lounge
Ultra.Chilled series
Mix in music from these artists thoroughly and enjoy:
- Air
- Eryka Badu
- Bent
- Bliss
- Brand New Heavies
- B-Tribe
- Caia
- Colby Caillat
- Cirrus
- Cirrus Minor
- Cut Chemist
- Deep Forest
- The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
- Enigma
- Flunk
- Govinda
- Groove Armada
- Herbie Hancock
- Imogen Heap
- Kiln
- Kishi Bashi
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Lamb
- Bill Laswell
- Massive Attack
- Maxwell
- Mazzy Star
- Morcheeba
- Patrick O’Hearn
- Beth Orton
- Parov Stellar
- Portishead
- DJ Shadow
- Submotion Orchestra
- Supreme Beings of Leisure
- Susan Tedeschi
- Thievery Corporation
- Amon Tobin
- Tosca
- Unkle
- Why Mona
- Yohimbe Brothers
- Zero 7