Floating Points

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

http://pitchfork.com/tv/35-pitchfork-music-festival-paris/1909-watch-floating-points-full-set-from-pitchfork-music-festival-paris-2016/

So his new thing is out today - Reflections Mojave Desert. 5 tracks over 27 minutes recorded in the mojave desert as a 5-piece band. Two long (7 and 10 minutes) psychedelic prog jazz grooves, and three ambient-y explorations of what happens if you fiddle with an organ in the desert and approach it as a post-doc field recording project.

Ordered it weeks ago from his site and it arrived yesterday. Silurian Blue the 7-minute track, got a bit of play on 6music a while ago, and is pretty indicative (of course; there are only four other tracks!).

Headphones, though, wow. This sounds like nothing else I've ever heard. Not like a live album, not like a studio record. It's pretty slight in many ways (and he really is just doing instrumental prog now), but I also wouldn't want it to be any longer.

Comes with a DVD of s short film of the band playing and Sam wandering around with a field recording mic in the desert, which I've not watched yet.

The 10-minute track, Kelso Dunes, reaches somewhere he's not quite been before, whilst also being a logical kin to Kuiper etc.

Headphones, though, wow. This sounds like nothing else I've ever heard. Not like a live album, not like a studio record. It's pretty slight in many ways (and he really is just doing instrumental prog now), but I also wouldn't want it to be any longer.

I'm having difficulty reconciling the two halves of this paragraph and tbh your description doesn't riveting tbh, he doesn't need to go any further in that direction.

I had this all queued up for my Friday morning commute but that's prime listening real estate so I'll give it a go on Sunday morning instead.

new album is the best thing he has done IMO. less brainy but all the better for it. one of my favourite things ive heard this year. lots of daft punk style synth work (i dont know the exact synth but they used it a lot on RAM), and some gorgeous guitar. not seen the film but its very replayable. also perfect for summer.

OK this meddle/dark side shit on "reflections" is AWESOME. what a champion.

New track out today, download and (weird) 12". Ratio. 19 minutes. Which is why it's weird on vinyl, cos it's split somehow? Anyway, it's long, it's proggy, but it's NOT krauty / jazzy like the Reflections or Kuiper; it's much more house-y again, like a fusion of the early singles with Elaenia. Very nice indeed off a couple of listens. He's very tasteful, isn't he?

And why not? Said song:

https://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints/ratio-full-mix

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.