Funny I just pulled this out the other day and still enjoy it. Feel like it’ll be a good spin as the weather turns and the days get shorter over the coming months.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
the languorous romantic quality of it reminds me of being a kid and first hearing Prelude To the Afternoon of a Faun
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 September 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
i went back to it the other day and it's still as sublime as ever
― ufo, Thursday, 30 September 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
so it turned out he produced half of the new hikaru utada album???
― ufo, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmnh3omeE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctD_1SKqtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FL7ahAmdp8
here's the tracks he co-produced they all rule
― ufo, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 09:24 (two years ago) link
i'm wondering what the connection is. the first two tracks sound nothing like floating points, though they do seem a bit like "modern" takes on old soul/funk stuff he plays in his sets, especially with the horns in them. the last track has a tiny hint of FP in it
― Punster McPunisher, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
sonically it all very much sounds like his production, the latter two really aren't too far removed from his work on elaenia at all. the first is a little further away but still seems like a fairly natural expansion on that sound.
― ufo, Thursday, 20 January 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
I hate it :(
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 January 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
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"
― Punster McPunisher, Thursday, 20 January 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
This is a tune
― Indexed, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
i miss that Vacuum Boogie sound.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
yes, this is great
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 10 March 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uM6sP7Kdk
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
Nice
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
i like this one way more than the first single.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
another banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLpR6Fsc6Q
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 12:52 (six months ago) link
FYI, he has a collaboration on the new Shabaka album that was a standout for me.
― Indexed, Monday, 15 April 2024 19:33 (two weeks ago) link