"The majority of people probably do not care what micro-RNAs are."
Samuel Thomas Shepherd[1] (born 1986), known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician.
Just an hour after leaving the lab, sitting next to a snowy car park outside a jazz club in Dalston, Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points) tells me how he is a dedicated PHD student in “the neuroscience of pain”. Unsurprisingly, he has little time for much else, except for (of course) casting his meticulous eye over densely worked electronic music that gushes.
Squelchy synth riffs and acidic melodies that are so warm and thick you can almost touch them, and last year his output was prolific. Putting out two of the year’s most revered discoveries – Vacuum Boogie and Love Me Like This – on his imprint Eglo (set up with Rinse FM DJ Alexander Nut) plus a number of other tunes found on other independents or spread across the blogosphere (K&G Beat, J&W Beat, Truly as well as remixes of Little Dragon, Sebastian Tellier), Shepherd’s productivity outstripped even some of the more prolific producers of 2009, making many more established producers look like part-timers, all the while being a part-timer himself.
