New Downtempo and Chill Out Music Artists
Looking for new chill out and downbeat or downtempo music? There are some amazing new downbeat producers and DJ’s producing new downbeat music.
Here are some of my suggestions:
www.Ganga.dk - Denmark Chill Out Downbeat producer Ganga, hailing fromCopenhagen describes himself as a musical chameleon. The classically trained musician and producer entered the world of electronic music with his debut album entitled ‘I Dream About Trees’ which was released on Music For Dreams. It was an album inspired by trees, which he professes a general fondness for. The album created quite a stir in the downbeat/chillout/lounge genre, and numerous tracks from the album are compiled again and again on the biggest chillout compilations, Buddha Bar, Real Ibiza, Cafe Mambo, Hed Kanid Serve Chilled, No Stress to name but a few.
Budding young DJ, producer and songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand, jr kong began his life long musical pursuit at the age of five. From playing in school bands to church choirs to then scoring music for short movies; jr kong’s musical interests are wide and varied. His influences and production styles include, electronica, hip hop, rock and folk. And he if often blurring the lines between musical styles and conventions. A sound that might easily fit between DJ Shadow and some real geeky guy. Jr kong’s debut album is 12 Inch Biscuit Press, an electronic mix of urban styles with a distinct kiwi vibe.
“Oceanic Chill” is a new compilation CD of chill out, downbeat, dub, trip hop, ambient and all round mellow grooves featuring 23 fresh artists brought together as proof that the underground is alive, well, and very relaxed about the whole thing. A sumptuous selection is presented from artists all hailing from Pacific nations to create a rich aural repository lovingly compiled by DJ Romantech head of Data:bass, the Auckland, NZ based DJ/Producer collective. And from the sheer depth and capacity of sites such as myspace, the Oceanic release feeds the best elements accessible together into a potent brew of soothing rhythms and melodic beats. DJ Romantech is an Auckland, New Zealand Liquid Funk DJ.
CHILL OUT MUSIC
Chill out music takes it’s name from the slang term to relax and is applied as a term to cover many styles of mellow, slower paced music made by modern producers with beats and samples in the electronic music scene.
“Downtempo” or “Downbeat” music is described as a laidback form of electronic music similar to ambient music but with a beat or a groove.
Another related genre is Trip hop, though Downtempo usually uses a slower tempo than Trip-hop. The relaxing and often sensual or romantic feel of most downtempo music, along with the absence or minimal use of lyrics or vocals, it is a popular form of background music in ‘chill out rooms’ of dance parties, many alternative cafes, and is often marketed as being good music for lovemaking
The genres associated with chill-out are mostly Ambient, Trip-hop, Nu jazz, Ambient House, Ambient Trance, New Age and other sub-genres of Downtempo - a major branch of electronic music. Sometimes the Easy Listening sub-genre Lounge is considered to belong to the chill-out collection as well.
The term “Chill out music”, as well as the genre itself, originated in chill rooms that were set up by DJs around the club dance floors to give patrons a chance to get away from the hectic dance music vibe and mellow out with this style of chilled music. Chill out as a musical genre is synonymous with the more recently popularized terms such as “smooth electronica” and “soft techno” and is a loose genre of music blurring into several other very distinct styles of electronic and lo-fi music.
Artists include Air, Fila Brazillia, Portishead, Afterlife, Massive Attack, Chris Coco, Zero 7, Enigma, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation, Lemongrass, Tosca, Monte La Rue, Nightmares on Wax, The Dining Rooms, Bluetech, Sounds from the Ground, Jens Buchert, A Man Called Adam, Electric Skychurch, Mystical Sun, Single Cell Orchestra, Alex Cortiz, Boards of Canada, William Orbit, Groove Armada, Leftfield, Lenny Ibizarre, Timonkey, Banco de Gaia, and Lemon Jelly. Some of the labels with the most important recording rosters of downbeat and chill out artists and largest catalogs of releases and compilations are: Life Enhancing Audio, ESL Music, Instinct Records, Caf? del Mar, United Recordings, Water Music, Pork Recordings, Muti Music, Ninja Tune, Mole Listening Pearls, Six Degrees Records, Waveform, Compost Records, Interchill, Cyberset Music, Liquid Sound Design, and Ultimae