- A track made while waiting for a ride to a festival is the latest world-conquering Joy O anthem.
- Who needs EPs or albums when you can just drop a readymade club anthem every few months? Joy O's got it down to a science, and "flight fm" is his latest successful lab experiment. It's even more impressive than usual: he wrote it while waiting for a ride to a festival and debuted it there, much like Floating Points' epic 2014 track "Nuits Sonores."
This one, short and sweet, is built on one of those patented Joy O drum patterns, kind of UK garage but not completely—just skippy enough. The real focus is a mottled bass synth that dive-bombs over and over again, like a child making rocket ship launching and falling noises with a toy. He turns the filter envelope wildly with each new pass, making the synth sound uncannily alive, all while the the bass blankets the bottom end—classic Joy O business. There's not a climax, and the track ends suddenly, but it does what it needs to do: comes in, shakes the woofers and makes people go mad.