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Downtempo genre — history, bands and artists
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Downtempo concerts in Mexico
Upcoming Downtempo concerts: one card per artist, the rest of their dates on the artist page
Geography of Downtempo
Where the artists of the genre come from and where it is on the radio
Landmark albums of Downtempo
Studio albums that listeners most often call this genre
1991Blue LinesMassive Attack
1997PortisheadPortishead
2005Demon DaysGorillaz
2003
Dial ‘M’ for MonkeyBonobo
1996
Endtroducing.....DJ Shadow
2001
Melody A.M.Röyksopp
New in Downtempo
Albums and singles of the genre released in the last four months
2026Songs For SinnersMoses Boyd
2026DELUXE ’70, V7haircuts for men
Downtempo by year
How many studio albums of the genre came out each year
Downtempo by country and decade
Bands and artists of the genre from different countries and eras, the best albums of each decade
Artists of Downtempo
The most listened artists of the genre and its subgenres: the bigger the name, the more listeners
- AES Dana
- Air
Beth Orton- Bluetech
- Boards of Canada
- Bonobo
- Chet Faker
- Coldcut
- Craig Armstrong
Darren Hayes
Dido- DJ Cam
- DJ Shadow
- Emilíana Torrini
- Eric Hilton
- Everything but the Girl
- Faithless
- Fat Freddy’s Drop
- Fila Brazillia
- Gorillaz
- Gotan Project
Gotye- Gramatik
Gustavo Cerati- Hooverphonic
- Jazzanova
Kosheen
Kruder & Dorfmeister- Kygo
- Lamb
- Lana Del Rey
- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Loreen- Massive Attack
- Morcheeba
- Mr. Scruff
- Mylo
- Nightmares on Wax
- Nitin Sawhney
- Olive
- Portishead
- Quantic
- Rhye
- RY X
- Sevdaliza
- Smoke City
- Space
- St Germain
- Télépopmusik
- The Cinematic Orchestra
The Herbaliser- Thievery Corporation
- Tosca
- Touch and Go
Triangle Sun- Tricky
- Tycho
Ulrich Schnauss- UNKLE
- Zero 7
Overview
Genre relations
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Parent genre
Downtempo is a subgenre, i.e. a narrower direction of these styles
Derived genres
Genres that evolved from Downtempo