Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The album’s final track, “Peroration Six,” is probably its most unwieldy: a low, industrial hum runs along the ...

Floating Points‘ Sam Shepherd isn’t one for hard left-turns in his loosely beat-tethered meditations on worldly music, but the London musician and producer does have a tendency to upend expectations.

Elaenia is the full-length debut of English DJ Sam Shepherd, known as Floating Points, who had released a few minor projects in the dance scene and who has reportedly spent five years crafting this ...

Throughout his career, much of the chatter surrounding Floating Points (a.k.a. Sam Shepherd) has had nothing to do with his music. Since 2009, the London producer has built up a reputation as a ...

UK producer Floating Points has released an epic and elegant video for his new track “Silhouettes,” a selection from his upcoming new album Elaenia. Judging by the extensive credits list over on ...

Last fall, Sam Shepherd released Elaenia, his excellent debut LP as Floating Points. Today, he's announced a North American tour. The trek—on which he'll be backed by a band—kicks off this April in ...

Common myth would have you believe that a person uses either the right side or the left side of the brain, and that alone determines whether the individual is creative or logical, as if the two are ...

A cluster of French club kids slow their chatter when Sam Shepherd’s orchestra takes the stage at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Two violins, a viola, cello, bass, flute, trombone and saxophone are ...

UK electronic music producer Sam Shepherd is about to release a new Floating Points album called Crush, the full-length follow-up to his 2015 debut Elaenia. We’ve already heard two tracks from the ...

The UK is still reeling from an unprecedented heatwave, and Floating Points’ Sam Shepherd is holed up in his London studio trying to stay cool amongst his gear. “It’s never been like this,” he tells ...