Floating Points Cascade

• Floating Points – Key103
• Floating Points – Birth4000
• Floating Points – Del Oro

• 1. Vocoder [Club Mix]
• 2. Key103
• 3. Birth4000
• 4. Del Oro
• 5. Fast Forward
• 6. Ocotillo
• 7. Afflecks Palace
• 8. Tilt Shift
• 9. Ablaze

Cascade pushes Floating Points’ sound forward into new places. The eight songs here are allowed to smoulder and spark for up to eight minutes at a time, allowing for more expansive exploration of sounds and grooves than before.

A subtle homage to his hometown of Manchester ripples across Cascade. “Afflecks Palace” an enveloping glide of harp melodies overtaken by otherworldly bleeps and beeps, named after a Mancunian market described as an “emporium of eclecticism.” Elsewhere, there’s ‘Key 103’, named after “an underground Manchester radio station a young Sam Shepherd would listen to “religiously”.

Almost a decade on since Elaenia, his revered debut album, the composer has discovered ways to thread his experiments outside of club music seamlessly into his music designed for the dancefloor.