Komponent @ Culture Box 03.11.07

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Komponent & Culture Box presents:

main room:
The Field live (Kompakt/SE)
Quint live (Laptop band)
Daniel Kaarill (Zerrbild)

basement:
Havblik Audio live
Vinyl Terror Og Horror live installation+concert
Nexus live installation+concert (DE)
Carl Emil (Elektroniske Tirsdage)
Franz Flottenheimer (Elektroniske Tirsdage)



Culture Box / Kronprinsessegade 54a / Kbh.
Saturday / 03.11.07 / 22.00 - 06.00
Entrance: 70,-



”His little heart it beats so fast”

Some people in Cologne have a saying about ambient, they call it ”techno´s quiet little sister”. The Field´s real name is Axel Willner, and his music comes from tiny loops of pop history. It might actually be an older brother to the Cologne movement Pop Ambient - the sentimental brother who is never content with being in the background, the one with the heart on his sleeve. To clarify: The Field makes dance music. The edges are soft, the mood often romantic, the sounds moving up, up from the ground. As ”minimal” as a sunset, as ”banging” as a pillow.

My life with The Field begins before ”The Field”, with various pseudonyms and a website full of romantic photos. It begins with me rummaging through small music shops in Sweden, looking for handmade covers containing small, pretty drones, or that special song for cab´s in Stockholms summer nights, the one with the doo-wop sample in the middle. I remember, barely, nights with accordions, livesets in basements where small, fluffy clouds of music made pop kids dance, confused and happy.

There are releases on small indie labels, shining like pearls among the rest, and there is that internet famous remix of Norwegian singer Annie. Then there is Kompakt, and the perfection of techno as a pillow to hold on to on the dancefloor. There is the ”Things Keep Falling Down”-EP, with big, sprawling tracks. Then there’s ”Sun & Ice”, with one of the biggest hits, ”Over The Ice” - a song that make you scream, twist, even shout, when all you want is to float. There are monumental remixes of Swedish popsingers and more livesets, a memorable one at a Kompakt afterparty, with the morning sun shining in through huge windows. And now we finally have the album debut containing three tracks from the "Sun & Ice" 12" inch and 7 more exclusive tracks.

I have other memories, of beer and afternoons in sunlit rooms, listening to the quiet kind of techno tracks which to Axel are classics. I remember endlessly repeated praises of those specific songs. I remember this love crammed into his own songs, more as a kind of energy than a specific influence. I seem to remember a few more things, none of them as important as the fact that all of this has hardly begun.

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