#ambient music

#ambient music

Landing somewhere between composer William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and DJ Screw's chopped'n'screwed production style, Desaceleradas slows the shaker-rattling, synth syncopations of cumbia rebajada into unrecognisable ambient territory. La Ronda y el Sonidero and Vinilos Trasnacionales contain hints of the signature cumbia shuffle and twanging synth melody, but Beatriz's added tape hiss, reverb and melodic warping transform the style into an eerie, ethereal soundworld of nightmare fairground music and yearning drones.

Once Was Ours Forever isn't much different, except in all the usual ways Made of the Same Stuff albums are: a bit more insular, more stripped-down, more confident and, inevitably, shorter.

"Listening to the track through headphones, I could feel my usually agitated pulse steady itself, mirroring the music's rhythm-calming me even as it sparked me to attention."