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- Floating Points
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- LesAlpx / Coorabell
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS517S
- Release Date
- July 12, 2019
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Sam Shepherd hasn’t exactly been slacking off of late - touring, putting together a Late Night Tales instalment and running the Melodies International label sounds like more than enough for one person to be getting on with. However, apart from a cover of Kenny Wheeler’s ‘The Suite Time Suite Part 1 - Opening’ on the LNT volume, we’ve not had any new music from Sam Shepherd’s Floating Points project for a couple of years now. Great news, then, that the silence has been broken by new single ‘LesAlpx’.
‘LesAlpx’ is one of the most streamlined things to be released under the Floating Points banner for some time (a track that clocks in at under 5 minutes is short by Shepherd’s standards). He wastes no time here, getting straight to the groove after a few seconds of scene-setting bass. The garage skip of the beat harks back to Floating Points’ early days of - the most similar thing to ‘LesAlpx’ in the FP discography is most likely 2011’s ‘ARP3’.
Mind you, there’s an almost dystopian air to ‘LesAlpx’ that is an intriguing diversion for Shepherd. For a producer who’s so often dealt in the lush harmonies and clement tones of soul-jazz, these burbling synths and needling lead-lines are a lot more Blade Runner than we’d have expected. It works, though, turning a typically chunky bassline from euphoric to dark.
Punchy and arresting, ‘LesAlpx’ is a great return from Floating Points.
Digital Tracklist
12” Vinyl Tracklist:
A1. LesAlpx (Extended)
B1. Coorabell
Floating Points
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- Artist
- Floating Points
- ReleaseProduct
- Grammar
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS613W
- Release Date
- April 5, 2022
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- Floating Points
- ReleaseProduct
- Vocoder
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS609
- Release Date
- March 9, 2022
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- Artist
- Floating Points
- ReleaseProduct
- Bias
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS538
- Release Date
- April 8, 2020
- 12”
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- Floating Points
- ReleaseProduct
- Crush
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZEN259
- Release Date
- October 18, 2019
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- Floating Points
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- Late Night Tales: Floating Points
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- Late Night Tales
- Catalogue Number
- ALN52
- Release Date
- March 29, 2019
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- Floating Points
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- Kuiper
- Label
- Pluto
- Catalogue Number
- FP02D
- Release Date
- August 22, 2018
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- Floating Points
- ReleaseProduct
- Ratio (Deconstructed Mixes)
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- Pluto
- Catalogue Number
- FPL03D
- Release Date
- October 19, 2017
- 12”
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- Floating Points
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- Ratio
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- Pluto
- Catalogue Number
- FPL03D
- Release Date
- October 19, 2017
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Ninja Tune
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- PVA
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- BLUSH
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL286
- Release Date
- October 14, 2022
- LP (special)
- CD
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- TSHA
- ReleaseProduct
- Capricorn Sun
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL284N
- Release Date
- October 7, 2022
- LP (special)
- CD
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- Little Dragon
- ReleaseProduct
- Opening The Door
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS626
- Release Date
- September 16, 2022
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- VTSS
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- Circulus Vitiosus
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS617
- Release Date
- September 16, 2022
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- PVA
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- Bad Dad
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL286BWA
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- August 17, 2022
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- Little Dragon
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- Frisco
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS626FW
- Release Date
- August 10, 2022
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- AZD SURF
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- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS625
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- August 3, 2022
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- Water
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- Ninja Tune
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- ZENDNL284WW
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- July 28, 2022
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House
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- Various Artists
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- 3AM Spares
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- Efficient Space
- Catalogue Number
- ES009
- Release Date
- November 9, 2018
- LP
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- Four Tet
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- Mango Feedback
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- Text Records
- Catalogue Number
- TEXTDDD22
- Release Date
- August 11, 2022
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- Pinty
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- Tomorrow’s Where I’m At
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- Winged Feet/Greco Records
- Catalogue Number
- WF002
- Release Date
- September 24, 2021
- EP
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- Jitwam
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- Stranger Danger
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- Roya
- Catalogue Number
- ROYA014DE
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- July 13, 2022
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- Mano De Fuego
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- UR Presenta Mano De Fuego
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- Underground Resistance
- Catalogue Number
- UR-095
- Release Date
- April 22, 2022
- EP