UK jazz-fusion-meets-downtempo producer Floating Points is releasing his first full length this year. It’s called Elaenia and comes out November 6 via Luaka Bop in the US and Pluto in the UK. Over the ...

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Floating Points has shared a new single titled "Birth4000." The track is out via Ninja Tune and has featured in DJ sets from Four Tet, Peggy Gou, and Ben UFO among others over the summer. Check it out ...

One of The FADER’s favorite albums of 2021 (and this writer’s favorite, hands down) was Promises, a cosmic collaboration between visionary producer-composer Sam Shepherd (Floating Points), free jazz ...

One of my favorite musical memories from this year is the moment that almost the entire Stereogum staff, all slaphappy and exhausted, got together to dance like goofballs to an extremely late-night ...

Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced a new album, Cascade, and shared its lead single, “Key103.” Cascade is due out on September 13 via Ninja Tune. “Key103” is released with visuals from ...

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Back in March, the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, who releases music as Floating Points, put out a new track called "Vocoder," which he followed up a couple weeks later with "Grammar." Now, a few ...

The best musical mavericks never sit still for long. They mutate and morph into new shapes, refusing to be boxed in. Floating Points - aka Sam Shepherd - has so many guises that it's not easy to pin ...