Floating Points Offered Advice on Finishing Tracks for a Novation Tutorial Documentary

If you’re a producer, you’ve no doubt encountered the conundrum of knowing when a track is finished and ready to share with the world. The electronic music instrument company Novation has put together a neat little documentary in which they posited this head scratcher to an array of well-known producers, including the UK musician Sam Shepard, aka Floating Points.

“The point that I’m willing to share it,” Shepard says in Finish Something “is the point at which it’s finished.” The producer is joined by Astronautica, Om Unit, Throwing Snow, and others who impart advice on bringing a track to completion in both concrete (“listen to the track in your car after you’ve exported it”) and abstract terms (“having an idea of what the vinyl should look like”). Watch it and Floating Points’s video for his track “Nespole” below.

If you suffer the opposite problem, be sure to check out Novation’s other documentary Start Something, which was released last year and features, among other artists, the London musician Goldie.