This playlist features some of the most popular played tracks in the trip-hop/downtempo genre.

Best of PolyGroovers Downtempo

This play list includes some of the best vocal tracks the PolyGroovers released. The vast majority of the vocals are done by @telene (Telene Johnston) https://soundcloud.com/telene who is a an incredibly talented musician. DJ and a singer. Alas, PolyGroovers no longer has access to Telene's gorgeous voice, but we are incredibly grateful for the gems that she helped create.

Vocal Tracks by PolyGroovers & Guests

This two-part playlist is a result of several years of composing and making electronic music in my home studio. Some tracks are pretty short — just a tease, while others are full-length, lush, and pretty. No matter your taste in music I guarantee that it will take you on a journey.

After releasing three albums in the early 2000s, the band lost its singer who is now my ex-wife. While we keep in touch and are on good terms, she lives too far to continue singing for the band. So most of the new material is not vocal.

Starting with the downtempo you will hear a few emotional piano pieces. As I was composing this, at times I was going through a very rough COVID-isolation time — that's why "dark ambient" sometimes servers pure unadulterated anger and frustration.

You may discover you are the type of person who doesn't dare much about downtempo and ambient. No problem!

Try listening to Part II and groove along — it starts around 110 BPM add slowly gains energy finishing around 128 BPM.

_As always I appreciate all comments, and both praise and criticism as long as it's constructive._

Groove Your Soul then Stomp your Feet — All Original Music '2023

Beats for Journey to Alpha Centauri

Reality: Support Systems Failure

How would you feel in zero G gravity for the first time?

Zero G And I Feel Fine

This piano improv is raw, and very very far from perfect. Unlike all of my other tracks, which are meticulously composed, this piece is an unedited improv that conveys the grieving emotion of a breakup.

Heartbreak Blues (Live Improv)

This track borrows just the air-voice loop from the public domain samples, the rest is lovingly made from scratch. Synths used: Model 84, Model 82, Vital, Syleth1, Kick2 and Alesis Drum kit was used to layout the two separate layers of drums.

Embrace The Ocean

This is track played live on Native Instruments Maschine mk2, recorded into the Logic, refined there, and mastered in Logic as well.

Mechanical Sadness

A trippy and layered downtempo track with a heavy bass and slamming beat, the entire track is inspired by one of the public domain Scarface Breaks.

Downtrödden

Scarface Breaks

Good Life Is

A sketch of an atmospheric track, to soothe your cracks and bones.

Down By The Water

Atmospheric experimental audio collage.  

All of the voice samples I recorded in Amsterdam, mostly on the boat.

Water House

Moody, blendy, groovy goodness back from 2006.

This is Goodbye

This track started with a recorded acoustic bass loop for a brazilian Samba.  It then evolved into something else. 

Forgotten Samba

Sadness is probably the strongest emotion that can be felt throughout this track, sadness about being *without* someone else. Someone you've lost, perhaps forever.

Without (PolyVinyl)

Surreal In A Way (PolyVinyl, as featured on SomaFM)

Real Illusion (PolyVinyl)

Synteltic Cantata (PolyVinyl)

Seven Voices

Homeless Love

Simblissity

Mon Chaton

Coming Closer

Where The Love Begins

Out Or In

Better Alone

Rien Ne M'échappe (Nothing Escapes Me) Feat. Fabienne David

This is an hour-and-a-half mix of recent downtempo tracks by PolyGroovers (Konstantin Gredeskoul). It starts off at 72 BPM and ends around 110 BPM.

Downtempo — Mix of Original Tracks

House & Progressive mix (part 2) continues the onslaught of PolyGroover's original tracks but with more energy, funk, and the 303. 

Trippy, hypnotic, and harmonized this set draws you in.

Several tracks include collaborators: 

1. Its A Dream is produced in collaboration with Captn Tinrib
2. Don't Give Up Now — with Henry Havarro

House & Progressive — Mix of Original Tracks

A short taster of the track "Only You" I've been working over the Thanksgiving Weekend. I've got a bunch of new Software Synth, used Dave Smith Prophet to get one of the acid lines, and some royalty-free vocal samples.This is a deliberately a shorter version, meant for listening, not DJ-ing, so it's lacking the 60 second kick drum lead in (kill me now).

Raver Food

Only You

PolyGroovers — Only You (Radio Edit)

This track is one of the first released by (then) PolyVinyl, later renamed to PolyGroovers. It's been composed and mixed in the early 2002 version of Propellerheads Reason.

Unreleased

Margaritta

Super old track made in 2003 using probably Roland MC505 :)  The vocals by Telene Johnston (but back then I had no clue how to master the vocals lol)

Linoliumo

Sensual and moody this track is dreaming of something intangible.

Dreaming Down – Feat. Amber Rae

This track was made in approximately 12 hours from start to finish, by using various royalty free vocal samples supplied with Logic Pro 9. Bass, keys, drum programming, textures and production are all original.


One Two Listen

This track was played live on a piano, then overlaid with bass, jazz drums, synth and a vocal sample. The entire track is a continuous recording, done five times over — each time to add a new instrument. The only editing applied was mild EQ and mastering.

Lost Not Found

Rainy Sunday (Live Improv)

Space Chakra

Something In The Sound

PolyGroovers got started by a young couple in 2001, Konstantin Gredeskoul & Telene Johnston, who got married shortly thereafter. Konstantin was the brains behind compositions, lyrics, and song arrangements, while Telene contributed her beautiful voice on many of the vocal tracks.

As time went on, Konstantin and Telene parted ways. Konstantin remained as the solo creative force behind it, but took a long break after releasing their second album "Tips and Tricks". 

PolyGroovers are known for bringing groovy downtempo, filled with lush harmonies and unexpected polyrhythms, shaken by the funky bass lines and progressively intricate melodies.

PolyGroovers released a total of two albums, "Moods for Taking Out" (2006) and "Trips and Ticks" (2009), that are available on iTunes, Spotify, CDBaby, and many other online outlets. 

Some of the new materal is available for free here on SoundCloud.

PolyGroovers would like to thank those who supported, inspired, taught, and made this project possible. The list of influencers is nowhere near complete, but it includes Pyramind San Francisco, Blue Bear Music SF, FnF (Friends & Family), Ethan Miller (DJ Ethan), Decadent Oasis, Tracy Wadley (DJs as stickybeats), Cloudfactory, Jeff Cross (Apple), Tony Rose (Technostate), Captain Tinrib (Jon Bell, UK), Fil Jach (DJ Kem), Rhythm Society, Space Cowboys, Burning Man.

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