Re: downtempo (not on radio)


Moonlight (roesch@augsburg.edu)
Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:20:24 -0600



>> > Not to piss anyone off here but I disagree. For
>> me this genre does not
>> > suffer at all from over exposure at all in any
>> form of media or medium.

I read (maybe here on aj) that one problem with the "genre" known as
"downtempo" is its title: it sounds depressing, plodding, slow, unmoving.
Thus, stores that have a "downtempo" section sell less of that stuff.

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