The Field

His ado­ra­tion for KOMPAKT co-owner Wolf­gang Voigt’s GAS and M:I:5 projects from the ’90’s and the shoegazer rock of Slow­dive and My Bloody Valen­tine brought for­ward a new fusion of ambi­ent and techno that nobody here can ever rec­ol­lect being accom­plished (post-Pop Ambi­ent anyone?).

The road was paved and con­tin­ued on with a remix of ANNIE that leapt onto the web — THE FIELD imme­di­ately became a cult favourite amongst the blog­ging com­mu­nity which con­tin­ues to be the case to this day. The turn­ing point for The Field could have been his remix of VICE RECORDS Scan­di­na­vian rock­ers, 120 DAYS. Found on well over 200 blogs and web zines, this exposed THE FIELD to a whole new realm of fans. With his 2^nd sin­gle for KOMPAKT “Sun & Ice” (which appears on “FROM HERE WE GO SUBLIME”) and a remix for JAMES FIGURINE (of POSTAL SERVICE fame) this poised him for the release of “From Here We Go Sub­lime”, his debut album which shat­tered everyone’s expec­ta­tions mak­ing it one of the most talked about albums of 2007…earning a mighty 9.0 rat­ing on Pitch­fork where they reviewed the album as that “Willner’s tri­umph on Sub­lime remains how he man­ages to iso­late and repeat his lit­tle moments, trans­mut­ing them through the basic dance music build­ing blocks of jux­ta­po­si­tion and rep­e­ti­tion into some­thing big­ger, wring­ing plea­sure out of the always poten­tially dull afore­men­tioned “sound sculpting”.…”…If Will­ner doesn’t hit at least some of your plea­sure cen­ters, well, for­get your ears– your nerve end­ings might actu­ally be dead.”