FLOATING POINTS – BIRTH4000

Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has shared a new single, ‘Birth4000’, which is out now via Ninja Tune.

‘Birth4000’ couldn’t be more different sonically to these pursuits in its crunchy, gnarled, all-out energy. Officially out now, the track has already had a lasting impact on the summer’s dancefloors having been played out by Four Tet at his Finsbury Park headline show as well as gracing Arcadia’s industrial spider when played by Shepherd and Caribou b2b at this year’s Glastonbury, also appearing in festival sets from Peggy Gou, Ben UFO, Call Super, Palms Trax and more, as well as being the highlight of Shepherd’s secret headline slot at this year’s NTS summer party.

The track’s artwork comes from Tokyo based artist Akiko Nakayama. Nakayama is a painter who depicts the beauty of conveying energy metamorphosis through media such as installation, videos, and performance. She brings painting to life by combining the energy of movement and the vibrance of colours, called “Alive Painting”.

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JEZZ WOODROFFE – WONDERS OF THE UNDERWATER WORLD

This is just the best is so many ways. It’s a beautiful electronic score to a 1981 underwater film. Music was made by Jezz Woodroffe, who worked with Black Sabbath and decided to go out on his won musically. He has an exceptions studio full of incredible cutting edge tech at the time, such as a CS-80, so music of the score sounds like Vangelis. The original LP is exceptionally rare and to make this repress extra special I decided to do a DIY sleeve where we have an empty seascape sleeve (designed by DJ Food using AI tech) and inside the LP sleeve is an A4 set of underwater stickers with fish, sharks, frogmen and a small sub, so you can make your own underwater seascape scene. Inspired by Action Transfers back in the 1970s. It’s brilliant even if I say so myself. Musically amazing, visually amazing too. A one-off pressing, if it does get repressed it won’t have the stickers.

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