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The thing with chillout music is that you're really not limited by much more than tempo and, to a lesser extent, sound selection because you obviously don't want to load up your track with a bunch of abrasive sounds. But, aside from that, you're free to do pretty much whatever you want. Downtempo music encompasses everything from minimal ambient stuff to melodic songs with vocals, synths, drums (including 4/floor if you wish), guitars, ethnic sounds, etc. That's probably not much help to someone staring at a computer screen wondering where to start, but you can pretty much start anywhere. I usually start with a melodic idea, since I am an unapologetic melody lover, but I've started other downtempo tracks with a drum loop or just a chord progression, or an arp pattern, etc.
It might help to find a couple of downtempo tracks that you like and model your song on the ideas that you like in those songs.
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, or make the spaces twice as big so you're effectively doing 70bpm :P
