Downtempo
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Downtempo (or Downbeat) is a laid-back electronic music style. Often the name chill out music is used to refer to songs demonstrative of the genre, but those names also refer to other styles of music, and downtempo encompasses a wider variety of styles than those terms alone would indicate.
The downtempo genre draws heavily on dub, hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, drum 'n' bass, ambient, and pop and is often confused and/or mated with closely-related styles like IDM, trip hop, and acid jazz.
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Kruder & Dorfmeister from Austria and Thievery Corporation from the United States are amongst the most well-known bands of the genre. Both founded their own influential labels: G-stone and Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, respectively. Other important labels promoting downtempo music are Stereo Deluxe (Germany), Tru Thoughts (UK), Ninja Tune (UK), Klein Records (Austria), Switchstance Recordings (Germany) and Couch Records (Austria).
Other significant acts include: Bonobo, Zero 7, Fila Brazillia, Funki Porcini, Tosca, Kristallin, Pressure Drop, Gotan Project, Sofa Surfers, Amon Tobin, Glideascope, Saru, Röyksopp, and Peace Orchestra.
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| Electronica |
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| Big beat • Bitpop • Chip • Downtempo • Folktronica • Glitch • Indietronica • IDM • Leftfield • Nu jazz • Post-rock • Trip hop • Uptempo |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Dance | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic art music | Hard dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
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