Rainbow Arabia Remixes The Field (Stereogum Premiere)

When it comes to understanding techno-philic artists like the Field aka Axel Willner, process is, if not paramount, a fascinating and at least illuminating entry point. Are we listening to de novo digital sounds laboriously created by hand, live performance/pre-existing samples, or in the Field's case, microsamples? On his debut album, 2007's From Here We Go Sublime Axel often pulled apart his sampled songs' DNA, stripping their genetic structures to component, indivisible sub-atomic particles a...

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