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...slow, syrupy and hallucinogenic. This is fantastic chill-out music and it's gorgeous. Amazingly, it was created solely from samples collected from the Internet by a 19-year-old named Alec Koone. It's more interesting and flat-out better than most of the "Witch House" it's associated with, one of the labels that's cropped up to define this recent musical trend. I'm not big on labels, but in an effort to describe this music, it can be viewed as a sub-class of "chillwave." One could argue that it has its roots in "trip-hop" (slowed-down hip-hop, more sensual and atmospheric) which it certainly resembles although it's less beat driven with more emphasis on tonalilty and ambiance. It's often characterized by distant, ghostly vocals, spoken or sung, with incoherent words. But it's not really fair to label Balam Acab and lump it in with this so-called genre because it really stands as its own thing. "Sea Birds (Moon)" - dubby, full of echos and trippy aural caverns and a mysterious, pulsing rhythm. Distant, ethereal, heavily reverbed vocals sound like they're floating down a dark tunnel. Very hypnotic and a little spooky. "Regret Making Mistakes" - Opens with a strange, backwoods atmosphere featuring a sampled banjo, quiet and slow, and the rocking of a porch swing before a humming, monolithic synth pulse emerges. Contains qualities similar to the first track but with gently swirling notes, heavenly peaks and a brighter atmosphere. "Big Boy" - lush and hypnotic. The high-pitch
