Artist	Song
Massive Attack	Unfinished Sympathy
from Blue Lines (1991)
Tricky	Overcome
from Maxinquaye (1995)
Moby	Hymn
from Everything Is Wrong (2006)
The Chemical Brothers	Alive Alone
from Exit Planet Dust (1995)
Portishead	Numb
from Dummy (1994)
Kruder & Dorfmeister	Definition
from G-Stoned - EP (1994)
Groove Collective	Everything Is Changing (Baby Mammoth Mix)
from Everything Is Changing - EP (1999)
Pepe Deluxe	Girl!
from Girl! - Single (2003)
Alpha	Lipstick from the Asylum
from Stargazing (Special Edition) (2004)
Coldcut	Autumn Leaves (Irresistable Force Mix Trip 2)
from Two A.D. (1995)
Ulrich Schnauss	Crazy for You
from Far Away Trains Passing By (2005)
DJ Krush	Kemuri (Untouchable Mix)
from Stepping Stones - The Self-Remixed Best (2007)
DJ Food	Dark Lady
from Snow Patrol Another Late Night Tale (2009)
Beat Pharmacy	Ghostship Feat. Spaceape
from Wikkid Times (2008)
Telefon Tel Aviv	I Made a Tree On the Wold
from Immolate Yourself (2009)
Deadbeat	Vampire Dub
from Vampire EP (2010)
Radiohead	Climbing Up the Walls (Fila Brazillia Mix)
from Karma Police (CD 2) - EP (2003)
Fever Ray	When I Grow Up
from Fever Ray (2009)
King Midas Sound	Waiting for You
from Waiting for You (2009)
Smith & Mighty	Walking
from Bass Is Maternal (2006)
Ursula 1000	Arrastao
from The Ultra Lounge (2011)
DJ Rupture	Musquito (Club Foot Remix)
from Special Gunpowder (2004)
Mike Slott	Sun Tan
from Lucky 9teen (2009)
Flying Lotus	Roberta Flack (feat. Dolly)
from Los Angeles (2008)
Jamie Vexd	In System Travel
from In System Travel - EP (2009)

Comment:

Downtempo comes out of club culture, but it’s about much more than just beats. Bands who base their sounds around singers and pop-schooled song structures dive into the downtempo pool all the time, and here’s where they get [i]wet[/i]. Alpha started out on the trip-hop tip, but they reached another level when they let loose the rueful romantic croon of “Lipstick from the Asylum.” While Fever Ray’s specialty may be Björk-meets-Depeche Mode synth-pop, the subtle slip-and-slide of “When I Grow Up” wound up being one of their biggest tracks. Hell, even Radiohead roams into a dubby twilight haze when Fila Brazillia brings some moody mixology to their [i]OK Computer[/i] track “Climbing Up the Walls.”

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