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Transmitting Downtempo to Earth.

Showcasing the downtempo artists you've loved listening to...and can now download directly to your iTunes Podcasts playlist (or to your Windows Desktop, or to your iPod, or to your iRiver, or to your Walkman...Wherever you want to store your music, to listen to whenever you want to!)

If you're a recording artist, scroll down to the bottom of this page to find out how to submit your music to VoyagerRadio!

Bent Somewhat Bent But Now Recovered

I just learned that one of my favorite downtempo artists, Nail Tolliday, had recently been quite ill. Nail is one half of a band called Bent; the other half is Simon Mills. Together, these fellows have produced some of the most gorgeous-sounding music you can imagine; just ask Nicole Kidman, who recently expressed her desire to have Bent produce her own album. (Hey, Nicole has some great taste - look at some of the films she's participated in!)

Read about the personal (mis)fortunes of Bent at Bent-World.com.

This Blog's Feed Will Soon Be Changing

I will soon be changing this blog's feed, so stay tuned...I will make one last post here letting you know the location of the new feed so that you may subscribe to it, but if you would prefer me to email you a reminder, please send me your email address. Thanks for taking the time to do this - the new feed is likely to be more permanent. (Though nothing's absolutely permanent in this world, is it?)

Endtroducing...Obey DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow and Obey Giant's Shepard Fairey have teamed up to bring us a limited edition clothing and music box project, PUBLIC WORKS. The box set includes 5 tees, a new full-length mix CD by DJ Shadow, a copy of Shepard Fairey's book Post No Bills, stickers, buttons, and other goodies. PUBLIC WORKS is limited to 450 pieces, each signed and numbered.

Free Downtempo MP3 Downloads From Electronfarm Records

Chill Factor-5, one of the downtempo artists you'll be hearing in my next Tempo of the Down podcast (Session 05), is associated with the Electronfarm recording label, where you can find a variety of MP3 tracks available for free download (including one of the tracks I'll be including in Session 05).
During the process of putting together my Tempo of the Down podcasts, a theme always develops (or I strangle one out of the session). I don't always know the theme ahead of time; the current them of Session 05 appears to be something Pirates of the Caribbean or Halloween-inspired. Then again, it may change entirely before I'm through.

I'm going to do something I don't usually do: I'm going to provide you with a preview of the current session, not yet completed. (In fact, some of this music may not even end up in the final version.) That way you'll get a taste of the next session before it's released, and a window into my development process. Here's what I have so far:

Tempo of the Down: Session 05 [This is incomplete and is a work in progress.]

Beware, the sound quality is not as good as it will be in the final version!

Lamb:Remixed Now On Sale

Lamb fans: a new 2-CD compilation was released, Lamb:Remixed, described by the band as being "like a retrospective journey
through the life of Lamb". Buy it now at Lamb Store, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or through vendor of your preference.

Less Than Two Hours Left To Bid on Limited Boards of Canada Record

In two hours from the time of this post, the eBay auction for an extremely limited test-pressing of a blue Boards of Canada record will have ended. So place your bid now!

A BodyRockers Giveaway From Properly Chilled°

The downtempo music & culture site Properly Chilled° is currently hosting a BodyRockers CD and vinyl giveaway...


Recording artists & labels, please submit your tracks to us via email or using the form below...and please make certain your music file contains your track and artist info. so that we know who to credit!

(We also recommend including a website URL or album title, if you have these, so that we may direct our listeners to them.)

If you don't know how to add that type of stuff to your audio file, please include the info. using Your Comments below!

Track to Upload:

(Optional) Your Email Address:

(Optional) Your Comments:

Audio files tend to be large and take awhile to upload, so please be patient. In a few minutes or so, you'll see a message confirming your audio has been received.
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Send Us Your Music

Artists! Want to be heard on this station? Email your MP3 audio, one file at a time, to our Program Director or mail your CD promo(s) to the following address:

Harold J. Johnson
VoyagerRadio
547 Gayley Avenue #1
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Or use the new submissions upload form we've added to this page (currently located in the right sidebar; you'll need to scroll up a bit to find it). Make certain to let use know whether we may use the audio in our podcast, too!

Join the Discussion

Our discussion group can be a great place to hang out with other downtempo afficionados. Join the group today and you'll soon be sharing good times with new friends...(Hey, anything's possible!)

Also, subscribe to our Artists area's Atom feed! (Subscribing means simply copying the feed link to your news aggregator, so that you may automatically receive articles posted to this section of the site. Find out more about feeds, Atom/RSS, and aggregators at audioblogs.info, a blog providing information on those topics.)

Download the Podcast

We are officially podcasters now that we have revitalized and reintroduced our downtempo show Tempo of the Down, this time around as a podcast. Now showcasing independent downtempo we've been granted permission to offer for download, Tempo of the Down is our entry into the future of Internet radio.

Head over to our new Podcast area to download the latest session!