BEST NEW MUSIC: Floating Points - Ratio [20 minute long ambient deep house epic]

This is almost 20 minutes long!?!?!?!? (audio/video)

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20 minutes. This new track from Floating Points is nearly 20 minutes long. Just think about that for second. Think of the things that you normally do with 20 minutes: watch an episode of The Simpsons, do dishes, fold laundry while watching The Simpsons; THAT'S how long this track is (for the record, I usually churn out a blog post in roughly the same amount of time). Yet despite it's epic and quite honestly, daunting length, I'd still rank this at least as high as "Nuits Sonores", another track that you could hardly call short considering that one clocked in at just under 12 minutes.

But rather than continuing to talk about it's borderline obscene length, I'd rather get into how Floating Points has somehow managed to create another deep house masterpiece with this new track, "Ratio". Much like "Nuits Sonores", "Ratio" seems to move in moods and movements rather than sticking to any traditional house music formula. Broken down simply, "Ratio" is a largely dark, moody ambient piece with moments of drums thrown in to keep things moving. And move it does because when the drums kick in, this song really has a pretty solid groove to keep you interested. But interspersed between the sections where drums are present, are long, thoughtful, atmospheric moments that drift between menacing, sad, angry, and sometimes even touching. What I feel is so brilliant about this track is it manages to do all that, and do it so naturally that you don't even notice it without paying really close attention to it. To be honest, there's so much detail in this track that trying to break it all down is pretty much close to impossible and I'll just close this out by recommending you listen to it for yourself.

Or you could cheat and listen to the radio edit. But what fun would that be?

"Ratio" is out now on vinyl and can purchased here.