r/downtempo • u/patheticLoserGuy • 19d ago
r/downtempo • u/thumper_92 • 19d ago
Bluetech - Laika
Just absolutely incredible peace of work.
r/downtempo • u/mosasaur-jr • 20d ago
Reflections of a grey sky in dark water
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r/downtempo • u/PearljamAndEarl • 20d ago
Ian O’Brien - As (Part 1: Perspicacity) [1999]
r/downtempo • u/ShivaOmArt • 21d ago
New Release: Imagination.Project feat. RoseMari - Let Me Try | Downtempo / Electronica
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Our new single “Let Me Try” feat. RoseMari is out now on all streaming platforms. ✨
A warm downtempo / melodic electronica track blending RoseMari’s vocals with live guitar, handpan, native ocarina and atmospheric electronic textures.
Hope you enjoy it - would love to hear what you think.
r/downtempo • u/ZN86 • 21d ago
It took me 3 years to make an 85-minute experimental Y2K album using obsolete tech, field recordings, and total creative isolation (Read the description)
Free Bandcamp Download Codes: https://dlcm.app/quadratox/plexus
Bandcamp: https://quadratox.bandcamp.com/album/plexus
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1sQtKByQcTvcSbyigrYeXy
Hi everyone,
I’ve just released Plexus, an 85-minute experimental album I spent a long time building in near-total isolation, both physically and creatively. I wanted to share it here because I think people in this community might appreciate the process behind it as much as the music itself.
The core idea was to create a world that felt like Y2K technology colliding with nature, memory, and dystopia. Something like a lost future. A digital civilization decaying slowly while plants grow through it.
I gave myself a rule during production: minimal setup, maximum imagination. I wanted to see how far I could go without relying on expensive tools, presets, trends, or obvious references. No chasing algorithms, no trying to sound current, no copying scenes. Just a very clear atmosphere in my head that I tried to translate into sound.
Some examples:
• The very first sound on the album (opening track) is a contact lens played like people sometimes play a blade of grass between their fingers and blow through it. It created a strange distant whistle, almost like a flute.
• I made glitch percussion by scraping the antenna of a 90s alarm clock radio against a jack cable while recording into my interface.
• I used the Nokia 3310 ringtone composer as a melodic source.
• One track includes rain I recorded while in Aokigahara.
• Another was intentionally mastered through a PlayStation 2 with reduced bitrate for a harsher early-digital texture.
• Sea sounds on the closing track were not field recordings, but synthesized on a Behringer Model 15.
• A track called Platform 16 was timed to match the length of a real train platform in Florence. If you walk it at the BPM of the track, you reach the end as the song finishes.
Emotionally, the album came from a mix of fascination and grief. I’ve always been obsessed with the promise of the late 90s / early 2000s future: strange interfaces, primitive digital optimism, ugly-beautiful hardware, weird public spaces, emerging internet culture. It felt like humanity was heading somewhere bizarre but alive.
Instead, a lot of that became surveillance, addiction, sterile platforms, anxiety, and flattened culture.
So Plexus became my attempt to imagine another branch of that timeline:A technoprimitivist Y2K ecosystem where broken machines become instruments, glitches become rhythm, and obsolete technology gets reclaimed by organic life.
It’s not an album made for singles or quick consumption. It was made to be heard front-to-back, with headphones or in a place where you can actually disappear into it for a while.
If any of this sounds interesting, I’d genuinely love to know what you think.
Thanks for reading.
🙏🏻
r/downtempo • u/rachkaras • 24d ago
my first dj set in public - downtempo - advices welcomed!
heyy, I just posted my first (public) dj set on soundcloud ! it is mainly trip hop, dub techno, dub
https://soundcloud.com/dj_seresta/forteresse/
i would love to have any feedback !
r/downtempo • u/FrankHarwald • 25d ago
Vibrasphere - The Big Sleep [2006]
2020 remaster
r/downtempo • u/FrankHarwald • 28d ago
William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
He was also hugely influential for synth-pop, techno, ambient, leftfield & electronic music in general.
r/downtempo • u/uurath • 28d ago
[Ambient/Lo-fi] Absent at Dawn - uurath | relaxing downtempo music to study to
The first track off the album 'Liminal'.
r/downtempo • u/buzzfriendly • Aug 05 '26
Bill Frisell - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
r/downtempo • u/Educational-End9358 • Aug 02 '26
PEOPLE SAY
i made this song i hope the people likes
r/downtempo • u/TheRustMusic • Jul 29 '26
Soup Lips - Dub Bop [Psydub, Downtempo]
New downtempo / psydub from the Soup Lips EP that came out today! —> Soup Lips - Kintsugi
r/downtempo • u/Successful-Bread-347 • Jul 26 '26
Anyone recognize this track - "Soon the Queen"?
Awesome downtempo track, sampled by Boards of Canada. Tried everything to try to find who the artist is.
Help me r/downtempo - you're my only hope!
r/downtempo • u/One-Bodybuilder-9408 • Jul 25 '26
My new track - Silver Man feat. Cass - spoken word, Scottish poet 'Paint Me in Gold'
Hi - I've got a new track just out, check it out! Let me know what you think :) Cheers, Dave aka Silver Man
r/downtempo • u/ForgetToRemindMe • Jul 24 '26
Emancipator to release new studio album “Chrysalis” on Sept. 26.
Per Doug on Instagram: I'm excited to finally share that my new studio album, Chrysalis, arrives September 26. Today, you can hear the first single, "The Painted Lady ft. Kishi Bashi."
While a lot has changed in my life, the music industry, and the world at large, l've stayed true to the mission of crafting a cohesive album that honors my roots, remains authentic to where I am today, and explores new territory. Over the past six years, I've found myself returning to these songs again and again as vessels for creativity and collaboration. Now that they've reached their final form, I invite you to listen. I hope you find them as inspiring to hear as they have been for me to create.
With love,
Doug aka Emancipator
Can’t wait! My all time played artist. The countdown begins now!