| Floating Points / Crush |
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| Album: | Crush | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Floating Points | Added: | Nov 2019 | |
| Label: | Ninja Tune | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-12-04 | Pull Date: | 2020-02-05 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Feb 2 | Jan 26 | Jan 19 | Jan 12 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 | Dec 15 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 19, 2022: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Lesalpx | 4. | Jan 30, 2020: | Run-Away-Radio Lesalpx | |
| 2. | Jan 21, 2022: | The Offbeat Generation Falaise | 5. | Jan 29, 2020: | soft boiled Last Bloom | |
| 3. | Jan 30, 2020: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants Lesalpx | 6. | Jan 25, 2020: | Music Casserole Sea-Watch |
| Album Review |
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| HYPRK Reviewed 2019-11-18 | ||
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Heady, avant-garde beats that perfectly bridge electronica and modern classical. The second studio album from British musician Sam Shepherd, a classically trained pianist from Chetham's School of Music who also holds a casual PhD in neuroscience and epigenetics from University College London. He recently returned from a tour with the xx, where he performed exclusively improvisational sets. The twelve tracks on this album are all intricately arranged and sonically dense while amazingly made with only a Buchla synthesizer and a Korg drum machine. For fans of Clark, GAS, Tim Hecker, Biosphere, Jon Hopkins, and Bonobo. FCC clean. All tracks instrumental. Try 1, 6, 9, 7, or 10 (*1.) (3:54) Smooth suspenseful strings projected onto a flickering electronic beat. Beautiful (2.) (5:53) Shy electronic blips over a chill drum n bass beat (3.) (3:12) Gyrating garage beat with buzzy distorted horns (4.) (2:23) Somber orchestral requiem with added electronic elements (5.) (1:54) Sparse and arrhythmic. Staticy with resonating tones. Reminds me of a lot of the stuff coming out of CCRMA (*6.) (4:41) Gyrating house beat. Slamming bass with skittery textures and epic swells in intensity (*7.) (5:08) Slow meandering intro builds into a tough rough drum n bass beat (8.) (4:45) Loose experimental drum and bass with floaty samples and electronic flashes (*9.) (3:00) Slow, freeform synthesizer. Minimal but beautiful and moving (*10.) (4:04) Gently drifting bottom-of-the-sea-core. Sparse and cinematic (11.) (2:35) Squirmy beat with synth plodding (12.) (2:27) Experimental, frantic, abrasive | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Falaise | 7. | Bias | |||
| 2. | Last Bloom | 8. | Environments | |||
| 3. | Anasickmodular | 9. | Birth | |||
| 4. | Requiem For Cs70 And Strings | 10. | Sea-Watch | |||
| 5. | Karakul | 11. | Apoptose, Pt. I | |||
| 6. | Lesalpx | 12. | Apoptose, Pt. Ii |