Floating Points steps into The Supermarket

Over the past year, the UK music media and the blogosphere has gone gaga for the oozy-woozy post-dubstep tracks which 23 year-old Brit producer Sam Shepherd has issued under his Floating Points monicker when not working on his Ph.D thesis concerning the neuroscience of pain.
I'll restrain myself from any cheap gags about Shepherd starting up the Eglo label with Rinse FM DJ Alexander Nut as part of his research requirements and simply state that I haven't yet been knocked out by any Floating Points Vangelis-like releases any more than his gently thudding remixes but his Floating Points Ensemble shows definite promise.
Yes, like every other Brit producer with effusive accolades and some cello playing pals, the classically-trained Shepherd has more grandiose orchestral aspirations. Fortunately he also managed to squeeze in some classes in jazz composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and it's starting to pay dividends as can be heard in the three songs he performed with the 13-piece group featuring singer Fatima at BBC's Maida Vale Studios last August which can be found here.
If you try to blot out Gilles Peterson's fawning banter towards the end of the clip, you'll notice that he's got playing in the background Moe Koffman's mighty mellow Days Gone By (Egyptology) – off the cut-out bin classic Museum Pieces (Janus) album of 1978 – with some swank keyboard fills from Don Thompson and tasteful guitar runs courtesy Ed Bickert. Nice.

Days Gone By by Moe Koffman
  

Those wondering what exactly Shepherd might spin in a Floating Points DJ set at the Supermarket this evening might find some clues in his My Plastic People podcast which Shepherd assembled for XLR8R earlier this year.
Evidently the Ph.D studies and part-time beatmaking don't leave much time for crate-digging but the jazz, fusion and soul numbers selected as a personal tribute to London's famed East End nightspot, Plastic People, make for a pleasant mix. 

My Plastic People
01 Flora Purim "Encounters" (Milestone)
02 Deniece Williams "Slip Away" (Columbia)
03 Esther Philips "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" (KUDU)
04 Windy City "(So You Think) Somethin's Missin'" (Chi Sound)
05 James Brown "Mind Power" (Polydor)
06 Gil Scott-Heron "Lady Day and John Coltrane" (Flying Dutchman)
07 Brian Auger & Oblivion Express "Whenever You're Ready" (RCA)
08 Willie Bobo "Sixty-Two Fifty" (Columbia)
09 Chick Corea & Return to Forever "Captain Marvel" (Polydor)
10 Kuniyuki "Precious Hall (Dub)" (Natural Resource)
11 Larry Heard "Missing You" (Track Mode)
12 Herbert "Suddenly" (Studio !K7)
13 Darkstar "Aidy's Girl Is a Computer (Kyle Hall Oats B So Deep Remix)" (Hyperdub)
14 Floating Points "Shark Chase" (Eglo)
15 Pharoah Sanders "Greeting To Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)" (Impulse)