You don’t often come across new sounds. And it’s even rarer to find a completely new genre of music. This one, which I suppose is a modern variant on “chill-out” music, is apparently called “barber beats.”

The cognoscenti of such things inform me that it’s a combination of something called “vaporwave” with elements of “slushwave” – not that that’s made anything clearer.

There’s another term – “plunderphonics” – which seems to more accurately describe what it is: which is, as I understand it (which isn’t much), some kind of remixing process.

I know this because on the not-very-informative Bandcamp site of the mysterious artist concerned – The World We Live In – there’s a brief note saying: “Everything is plundered unless stated otherwise.”

And I don’t see any other statements from him/them, who would seem to be Japanese, judging by the characters on the album cover and its oh-so-Japanese title – Shame And Forgiveness – though they list their home as Switzerland.

What I do know is that I love its smooth, immersive sound. It’s the aural equivalent of a warm bath. I could just float through the day on that bassline.

And I know (thanks only to the commenters) that the first track, Devika (Goddess), is originally by jazzman Lonnie Liston Smith, whose original sounds like this: