Since 2005, THE FIELD aka Axel Willner has been carving these minimal techno and microhouse landscapes for the prominent Cologne-based Kompakt label. The Swedish artist certainly matched the label’s mould, rekindling something of Wolfgang Voigt’s late 90s project Gas by marrying heavily reverberating 4/4 techno rhythms, the sort that evoke the lost thud of a distant club, with the vast expanse and translucent territories of ambient music. It’s fair to say that through the years, THE FIELD has provided some of the best work Kompakt has ever released, starting with “Things Keep Falling Down”, his debut EP. To many, it will be his introspective and moody rendition of the Korgis hit “Everybody’s got to learn sometime” that will have attracted their attention.
THE FIELD as an entity sprung up around 2003. Despite having been signed in late 2004 and having released two EP’s in 2005 and 2006, phenomenal success only came a year later with the LP “From Here We Go Sublime”; its accolades were numerous, amongst them a place inside the Top 200 records of the decade by Pitchfork and high rankings by the NME and the BBC. After its follow-up “Yesterday & Today” (2009), the man is back this year with more loops and more emotions with the aptly titled “Looping State Of Mind”.
THE FIELD as an entity sprung up around 2003. Despite having been signed in late 2004 and having released two EP’s in 2005 and 2006, phenomenal success only came a year later with the LP “From Here We Go Sublime”; its accolades were numerous, amongst them a place inside the Top 200 records of the decade by Pitchfork and high rankings by the NME and the BBC. After its follow-up “Yesterday & Today” (2009), the man is back this year with more loops and more emotions with the aptly titled “Looping State Of Mind”.