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Downtempo (or DownTempo) is a laid-back electronic music style often intended more for listening and socializing than dancing, though some releases are unmistakably produced for the dance floor. Often the names lounge music or chill out are 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.
Downtempo/IDM Sub-Genres:
Acid jazz
Balearic Beat
Bitpop
Chiptune
Electro clash
Electropop
Minimal Electronica/Glitch
Nu jazz
Trip Hop (aka The Bristol Sound)
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