Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders come from two very different worlds. Saunders is a legendary jazz musician and saxophone player, and Floating Points is best known for immersive electronic music ...

People learn in different ways, but sometimes the establishment fixates on explaining a concept in one way. If that’s not your way you might be out of luck. If you have trouble internalizing floating ...

It’s been about three years since Floating Points, the UK producer known to the government as Sam Shepherd, teamed up with the late Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra on the great album ...

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 term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...

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 ...

Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) is releasing a new album, Cascade, on September 13 via Ninja Tune. Now he has shared its newest single, “Ocotillo,” via a music video. Watch it below. The song is ...

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 ...

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 (aka Sam Shepherd) will be heading to North America for a few dates in August. While he’s here, he’ll hit up NYC for two shows, including Warm Up at MoMA PS1 on August 18 ...

The acclaimed new album Promises from jazz great Pharoah Sanders, electronic musician Floating Points, and the London Symphony Orchestra will be part of a new film that explores artist Julie Mehretu’s ...