Floating Points

omg this is so fusiony

last three tracks on this are incredible

or four rather. great album

^^^^^^^

have you guys heard the singles he's released over the past year or so?

any time you have a lex/Tim f/scick mouthy/murgatroid/ Ronan/ Matt dc/ Dominique/ stirmonster/ brad nelson consensus you know it's gonna be wonderful

first weekend of November is such a perfect time for this to emerge too

have you guys heard the singles he's released over the past year or so?

yeah! i like "nuits sonores" and "montparnasse," but i've never really loved this guy as much as kinda just respected what he did. i love that for the full length he totally luxuriated into fusion and space, which is really weird bc 1) i usually am not into that lp approach in dance music 2) i especially wasn't expecting to love it here but it's so... gorgeous?

Yeah i sort of see the big singles and the album as fulfilling different functions - like while it's fun and awesome when one of his earlier tracks like "sais" temporarily launches off into intergalactic jazz travel, it's differently awesome how the album just sits in that zone.

nuits sonores is very good & brad otm

The collab album with Mahmoud Guinia is excellent

Not heard anything else yet but looking forward to - at the moment the instant-gratification part of my brane is telling me I'd like more tracks like Peroration Six, or for the ambient-y ones in the midsection to have a house beat dropped over them, and hopefully the earlier singles will satiate this desire. (I have a strong hunch that in the fullness of time I'll be glad of the juxtaposition of the ambient-y, Tangerine-Dream stuff with the jazziness.)

Main other thoughts at the moment = he plays with dynamics really nicely; there's a really beautiful swell of sound in the opening track, and this seems triangulated to hit all my sweet-spots at once; Tom Skinner drums on it, he's mates with Four Tet etc, and he keeps talking about Laughing Stock. What's not to like?

i haven't heard this but then i realised i had left soundcloud playing so i was listening to a dj mix simultaneously happens to me all the time. i get frequent "wow! this producer is really pushing the boundaries of dance music" moments only to realise, no, it's just yet another dull as ditchwater tech house track. i will check out the new floating points album simultaneously playing along the next time i'm wading through dance promos for a potentially more interesting experience.

hahaha - two wildly different tracks playing at once, it's the undiscovered country!

gonna give this record a proper listen today - i have some cleaning to do. #life

This album is absolutely incredible on headphones, there's so much detail lurking in there even among the minimal arpeggiated Snooze For Love one.

What this reminds me of more than anything is a Hatchback album, that sense of something beautiful unfolding very slowly and just luxuriating in it throughout. I like it a lot more than his more dancefloor oriented singles because his slightly wonky approach to rhythm works much better in this context.

Also "mates with Four Tet" is completely meaningless at this point because he is mates with pretty much everyone including Terror Danjah and Skrillex.

Like I think initially approaching this as Balearic is probably the single best way to listen to it, as far as managing expectations goes.

Think I must be alone in liking his earlier, housier stuff! I much prefer the Shadows e.p. to this new one (although the last track *is* incredible)

album really reminds me of this (song and album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwmT8b39aQY

hell yeah

it's making me think of this a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFM3WFt0LVQ

hell yeah x2

hmm i was not going to check this out but if it sounds like "north beach" ... wonder if kirk degiorgio is into it ...

i do like this album but it's still not blowing me away in comparison to "nuits sonores", "wires" etc

"Silhouettes" is the big keeper here; the rest makes a very good Sunday morning soundtrack, and sometimes that's all I need.

Listened to King Bromeliad/Montparnasse and Nuits Sonores this morning. Very nice indeed.

only heard bits of this but just made me think of old 4hero

"Nuits Sonores" is gorgeous and lush. Very happy to have finally heard this guy. The album's obviously very different to the singles, but I'm very glad that both aspects of what he's doing exist.

I'd like to like this album but it's pretty dull really.

ARP3 is his real classic.

only heard bits of this but just made me think of old 4hero

still haven't heard this but maybe i need to!!!

he's doing the essential mix this weekend

tlg plz listen to it

really digging elaenia -- parts of it definitely drop out of my consciousness/fade into the background if I'm not paying deliberate attention, but not in a bad way. Love the way so much of the album just gradually and smoothly evolves along.

I think the fusion guy it actually reminds me of most is jan hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7b1l6zGKY

so this is the shit, huh?

definitive soundtrack to my long late evening dog walks for the last 4 weeks.

Holy shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWukZiutO6Q

This is so incredible

just discovering this stuff -- elaenia is pretty amazing!

that's a very impressive live performance too!

new EP Kuiper
https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/kuiper

starts out like it might be a variation on the last album's sound, but this one is more krautrock/post-rock. (Or radiohead rock.)

FUCKING LUSH

This is exactly what I was hoping there'd be more of on the album last year, after Peroration 6 was the first thing I heard. Super pleased.

Last five minutes goes a bit Dave Gilmour but I can totally forgive that for the 13 minutes of jazz techno kraut that precedes it.

Getting quite a Where You Go I Go Too vibe from Kuiper.

anyone know if he plays w live band on current tour?

yeah, played with a band at the festival I saw him at last weekend

nice, hope to see him live this week

New EP's quite nice, think I like it more than the album.

Agree w/Ned, and it feels more like a mini-album than an EP to me. B-side is great too, would absolutely not mind more in this vein

I hate it :(

hardly any tracks on elaenia have a steady beat. the sounds also have a lot more movement that makes most of the album sound a bit more organic and "wavy." i forget if sam was already using modular synths on that album, but i want to say it at least sounds like he is

the outro on the last two hikaru utada tracks get modular and have a bit more movement, but it's much tamer

also, what's with the 12-minute song? i assume a radio version of that would cut sam's "noodling"

Weird, I was just idly wondering if he would make a return to dance music after the Pharoah Sanders album

https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/vocoder

This is a tune

i miss that Vacuum Boogie sound.

yes, this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uM6sP7Kdk

Nice

i like this one way more than the first single.

another banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLpR6Fsc6Q

FYI, he has a collaboration on the new Shabaka album that was a standout for me.

new album outrageously good afaict

thanks for bumping, i can't keep up with shit outside of here :)

There is a lot to unpack and I am not the person to do it. I am naturally drawn towards the warmer and more contemplative tracks (Fast Forward - Ocotillo - Tilt Shift). I also really liked the acidic groove of Del Oro. At the same time, there is some dryness and asperity in the sound that is not really to my liking, especially the constant high-pitch synths. Lot of interesting dynamics though, starting with Vocoder and the motorik Birth4000.

Glad the pendulum has swung back to making some bangers

It's nearly all bangers too. damn

Love the hype tempos, Ocatillo into Afflecks Palace, wow

Hoooooly fuck, Cascade.