{"product_id":"elaenia_10th_anniversary_edition_with_kuiper_ep","title":"Elaenia - 10th Anniversary Edition With Kuiper EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eElaenia — 10th Anniversary Edition With Kuiper EP is a limited double-LP reissue of Floating Points' celebrated 2015 debut album, released May 29, 2026 on Luaka Bop in a hand-numbered edition of 1,000 copies pressed on translucent \"waterfall\" vinyl in a gatefold jacket. The package builds on the standard 10th anniversary reissue that first appeared digitally and on single black vinyl on November 6, 2025 — the exact tenth anniversary date of the original release — pairing the fully remastered Elaenia (including the previously digital-only bonus track \"Precursor\") with the long out-of-print two-track Kuiper EP, originally issued on 12\" vinyl in July 2016 and rarely available since. Elaenia was the debut of London-based composer, producer, and DJ Sam Shepherd — now holding a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Manchester — and upon its original release was named Album of the Year by Resident Advisor and celebrated across virtually every outlet that covered it, establishing Floating Points as one of electronic music's most singular and intellectually rigorous voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original album, recorded over five years with an ensemble that included drummer Tom Skinner (The Smile), bassist Susumu Mukai, and vocalist Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne, remains among the most distinctive debut records of the 2010s: as Apple Music described it, \"a sparkling, unclassifiable blend of techno traditions, jazz abstractions, post-rock, and other cosmic persuasions,\" built on a patient structural logic that prioritizes atmosphere and slow-burning development over conventional song forms. The bonus track \"Precursor\" — heard now for the first time on vinyl — functions as a quiet epilogue to the album's seven original movements. The Kuiper EP that completes the limited edition set, comprising the seventeen-minute title track and the fifteen-minute \"For Marmish Part II\" (a companion to Elaenia's \"For Marmish\"), was written at the very beginning of the Elaenia project and represents, as Drowned in Sound described it at the time of its original release, \"the sound of those dreams taking flight — an odyssey of chiaroscuro, equal parts motorik horsepower and sublime bliss,\" making its inclusion here a natural completion of the Elaenia universe in a single collector's package.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ 2LP - Elaenia LP In Horizon Vinyl \u0026 Kuiper EP In Waterfall Vinyl","offer_id":53625748193594,"sku":"38482","price":48.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_3.44.05_PM.jpeg?v=1781812049","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/elaenia_10th_anniversary_edition_with_kuiper_ep","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}