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Released
  
March 2007

Length
  
65:45

Release date
  
26 March 2007

Label
  
Recorded
  
2004–06

Artist
  
Producer
  
The Field

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From Here We Go Sublime(2007)
  
Genres
  
Techno, Ambient music, Minimal techno

Similar
  
The Field albums, Minimal techno albums, Other albums

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From Here We Go Sublime is the debut studio album by Swedish electronic music producer The Field. The album, produced and recorded by Axel Willner, who goes by the name The Field, was released by Kompakt in March 2007.

Contents

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Production

From Here We Go Sublime consists primarily of tracks recorded by Willner as the Field between 2004 and 2006, though the album also includes tracks produced before this period, one of which was originally recorded under a different alias. Willner's production style is sample-based, employing cut-up and resequenced manipulations of snippets of other artists' music, including Kate Bush's "Under Ice" on "Over the Ice", Lionel Richie's "Hello" on "A Paw in My Face", Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" on "Everday", and The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You" on "From Here We Go Sublime".

Style and themes

Despite From Here We Go Sublime being released on the Kompakt label, known primarily for German techno, the album's sound has been described as "less techno than it is trance". Jess Harvell of Pitchfork Media also noted the style's similarity due to an "anthemic bigness to Willner's little sounds, a certain shameless bombastic quality to the way he deploys his loops and builds his arpeggio" and the "elementary drum tracks, often just a deflated machine thump flecked with hi-hat hiss".

The themes of the music on From Here We Go Sublime has been noted for its "unabashed emotionalism" with songs suggesting "bliss", "melancholy" and "loss". From Here We Go Sublime's song titles have been described as vague, and the songs themselves having no intelligible lyrics beyond sampled vocals which have been edited and chopped up. Willner dislikes lyrical content and chose to treat sampled vocals as instruments rather than as voices, as "it gives (the music) a special feeling."

Release and reception

From Here We Go Sublime was released on compact disc and vinyl record by Kompakt. The album was released to great critical acclaim from various publications, and, along with Burial's Untrue, was the best-received album of 2007 on the music critic aggregators site Metacritic. It was named the 29th best album of the decade by Resident Advisor. Willner was surprised by the positive reception to the album, stating that "since it is a bit different than (most) other techno, I thought that people wouldn't like it."

Track listing

  1. "Over the Ice" – 6:56
  2. "A Paw in My Face" – 5:24
  3. "Good Things End" – 6:08
  4. "The Little Heart Beats So Fast" – 5:25
  5. "Everday" – 6:59
  6. "Silent" – 7:35
  7. "The Deal" – 10:03
  8. "Sun & Ice" – 6:34
  9. "Mobilia" – 6:28
  10. "From Here We Go Sublime" – 4:09

Songs

1Over the Ice6:55
2A Paw in My Face5:24
3Good Things End6:08

References

From Here We Go Sublime Wikipedia


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