The Field (techno, ambient, dance, indie, trance)

Rainard Jalen · 03-01-2008, 02:33 PM

The Field released an album last year called From Here We Go Sublime. It was quite the darling among internet music critics. I listened to it a few times myself, and couldn't find anything particularly great about it. I found it a pretty nondescript record, really. What did others think? And what do people think generally of The Field's work?

jackhammer · 03-01-2008, 02:47 PM

Never heard of it! So it's not really worth checking out?

Rainard Jalen · 03-01-2008, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Never heard of it! So it's not really worth checking out?

Well, enough people seemed to think it was a Godsend. So it's probably worth checking out at least and hearing once. I mean, it's not crap. It's a decent sort of record. I just don't, with my level of knowledge, understand why it's any better than anything else of the same sort.

jackhammer · 03-01-2008, 02:54 PM

I cant decide if it's annoying or brilliant. I will come back later with a more detailed analysis. I cannot see many on here getting into them though. Maybe Cardboard?

Expletive Deleted · 03-01-2008, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

anything else of the same sort.

Like what?

I loved it, but then I was a pretty big fan of his previous EPs before From Here... was released. I also love Gas, Ulrich Schnauss, and that style of ambient music, so that + Techno is pretty much heaven for me.

It was a tad overrated by critics, but then sites like Pitchfork don't really cover EDM all that well, so when they find a better than average record they always hype the **** out of it.

jackhammer · 03-01-2008, 08:50 PM

Thats what he was saying. He admits his knowlege of the genre is limited. Same as I. What I heard was hypnotic, however after 20 minutes I had had enough!

tkpb938 · 05-26-2008, 10:01 AM

Wow.... From Here We Go Sublime is really really great. Especially after hearing a bunch of this annoying "mickey-mouse voice" techno that my friend listens to. God I hate that shit

jackhammer · 05-26-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

Like what?

I loved it, but then I was a pretty big fan of his previous EPs before From Here... was released. I also love Gas, Ulrich Schnauss, and that style of ambient music, so that + Techno is pretty much heaven for me.

I love Schnauss too. Have you heard Stafraenn Hakon's album Gummi. Excellent stuff and similar to Schnauss.

Rainard Jalen · 06-25-2008, 10:27 AM

Schnauss is way better than The Field. I still don't understand why FHWGS was so acclaimed and nobody has been able to explain it.

Expletive Deleted · 06-25-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

Schnauss is way better than The Field. I still don't understand why FHWGS was so acclaimed and nobody has been able to explain it.

The Field mixes easily accessibly Kompakt-style Techno with not-quite-Trance-y ambient music, and given the way dance music has made a bit of a comeback in indie circles, it isn't really surprising that The Field would get so much love. Besides, Schnauss is pretty critically acclaimed himself.

I heard Stafraenn Hakon's album a while back, but I guess I didn't think that much of it because I never really listened to him again.

EDIT: Also I should point out that Trance has been making a comeback in general recently. All this "rave revival" stuff recalling the early 90s Franfkurt scene and labels like Kompakt, Dial, etc. jumping on the Neo-Trance bandwagon it also kind of explains why The Field, Gui Boratto, etc. got really popular recently.

03-01-2008, 02:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	The Field The Field released an album last year called From Here We Go Sublime. It was quite the darling among internet music critics. I listened to it a few times myself, and couldn't find anything particularly great about it. I found it a pretty nondescript record, really. What did others think? And what do people think generally of The Field's work?

03-01-2008, 02:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Never heard of it! So it's not really worth checking out? __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-01-2008, 02:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I cant decide if it's annoying or brilliant. I will come back later with a more detailed analysis. I cannot see many on here getting into them though. Maybe Cardboard? __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-01-2008, 08:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Thats what he was saying. He admits his knowlege of the genre is limited. Same as I. What I heard was hypnotic, however after 20 minutes I had had enough! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

05-26-2008, 10:01 AM	#7 (permalink)
tkpb938 Lvl 70 Troll Hunter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sunny Phoenix Posts: 482	Wow.... From Here We Go Sublime is really really great. Especially after hearing a bunch of this annoying "mickey-mouse voice" techno that my friend listens to. God I hate that shit

06-25-2008, 10:27 AM	#9 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	Schnauss is way better than The Field. I still don't understand why FHWGS was so acclaimed and nobody has been able to explain it.