🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Tony Soprano Band's new album Downtempo 1.

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Live-improvised downtempo electronica from Melbourne's Tony Soprano Band.

‍Downtempo 1 sits at the intersection of live band interplay and downtempo electronic music.

Drawing from the language of breaks, sampling and loop-based composition, every sound on the record originates from live performance. Drums, bass, synthesizers and hardware elements were performed simultaneously, with no fixed arrangements or predetermined outcomes.

After spending time with downtempo and break-led records, Dune Castle Records’ Patrick Ryan reached out to long-time collaborator and bassist Daniel Rock with the idea of making something in that spirit - not through programming, but through live musicians responding to the form in real time.

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“I’d been listening to a lot of downtempo records and just thought - I want to be in the room when something like that is made,” says Ryan. “Not building it piece by piece, but letting it happen live, and figuring out what to do with it afterwards.”

Bringing together Lucky Pereira (drums), Robert Downey (samplers, drum machine) and Winton Findlay (synthesizers), the group recorded a series of extended improvisations, guided only by loose sonic direction and feel. What followed was a second stage of composition: Ryan edited these recordings into their final forms, selecting and reshaping sections before mixing the material into a cohesive sonic world.

The resulting tracks retain the looseness of their origin while revealing a quiet internal logic. Grooves emerge, dissolve and reconfigure; melodic fragments surface and recede. The music resists climax, instead favouring sustained atmosphere and feel.

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🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Tony Soprano Band's new album Downtempo 1.

‍

Live-improvised downtempo electronica from Melbourne's Tony Soprano Band.

‍Downtempo 1 sits at the intersection of live band interplay and downtempo electronic music.

Drawing from the language of breaks, sampling and loop-based composition, every sound on the record originates from live performance. Drums, bass, synthesizers and hardware elements were performed simultaneously, with no fixed arrangements or predetermined outcomes.

After spending time with downtempo and break-led records, Dune Castle Records’ Patrick Ryan reached out to long-time collaborator and bassist Daniel Rock with the idea of making something in that spirit - not through programming, but through live musicians responding to the form in real time.

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“I’d been listening to a lot of downtempo records and just thought - I want to be in the room when something like that is made,” says Ryan. “Not building it piece by piece, but letting it happen live, and figuring out what to do with it afterwards.”

Bringing together Lucky Pereira (drums), Robert Downey (samplers, drum machine) and Winton Findlay (synthesizers), the group recorded a series of extended improvisations, guided only by loose sonic direction and feel. What followed was a second stage of composition: Ryan edited these recordings into their final forms, selecting and reshaping sections before mixing the material into a cohesive sonic world.

The resulting tracks retain the looseness of their origin while revealing a quiet internal logic. Grooves emerge, dissolve and reconfigure; melodic fragments surface and recede. The music resists climax, instead favouring sustained atmosphere and feel.

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Tony Soprano Band - Downtempo 1 (Dune Castle Records)

🌍 PR / Radio campaign x Tony Soprano Band's new album Downtempo 1.

‍

Live-improvised downtempo electronica from Melbourne's Tony Soprano Band.

‍Downtempo 1 sits at the intersection of live band interplay and downtempo electronic music.

Drawing from the language of breaks, sampling and loop-based composition, every sound on the record originates from live performance. Drums, bass, synthesizers and hardware elements were performed simultaneously, with no fixed arrangements or predetermined outcomes.

After spending time with downtempo and break-led records, Dune Castle Records’ Patrick Ryan reached out to long-time collaborator and bassist Daniel Rock with the idea of making something in that spirit - not through programming, but through live musicians responding to the form in real time.

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“I’d been listening to a lot of downtempo records and just thought - I want to be in the room when something like that is made,” says Ryan. “Not building it piece by piece, but letting it happen live, and figuring out what to do with it afterwards.”

Bringing together Lucky Pereira (drums), Robert Downey (samplers, drum machine) and Winton Findlay (synthesizers), the group recorded a series of extended improvisations, guided only by loose sonic direction and feel. What followed was a second stage of composition: Ryan edited these recordings into their final forms, selecting and reshaping sections before mixing the material into a cohesive sonic world.

The resulting tracks retain the looseness of their origin while revealing a quiet internal logic. Grooves emerge, dissolve and reconfigure; melodic fragments surface and recede. The music resists climax, instead favouring sustained atmosphere and feel.

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