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- Date Released: March 26, 2007
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental, Techno
- Label: Kompakt
Pop detritus, looped and made new all over again.
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Whereas so much contemporary electronic music makes do largely with synthesizers, drum machines and software, Kompakt's roots lie firmly in sampling. Sweden's Axel Willner, aka the Field, takes the idea of stretching pre-recorded sounds to extremes: "A Paw in My Face," for instance, loops a smidgen or two of acoustic and electric guitar from Lionel Richie's "Hello" into a slow, ecstatic exhalation. Only at the song's end does it uncurl enough to reveal its source (and even then, only if you really, really know the song). All the tracks on the album proceed via the same conceit: find a juicy morsel hidden in a pop song's elbow crook, then loop and smear it until it takes on the dimensions of a mother-of-pearl Montana sunset. Backwards guitars trace arcing shapes in "Silent"; shuddering repetitions prod unabashed yearning on the unabashedly trancy "Everyday" and "The Deal" (the latter which almost certainly samples the Cocteau Twins, an idea as obvious as it is genius, and vice versa). "Over the Ice," meanwhile, is a perfect marriage of sound and image: the Field may be a one-trick pony, but here it wins the Triple Crown, and then some.
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| 01. |  |
Over The Ice
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6:56 |  |
| 02. | |
A Paw In My Face
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5:24 | |
| 03. | |
Good Things End
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6:08 | |
| 04. | |
The Little Heart Beats So Fast
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5:25 | |
| 05. | |
Everyday
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6:59 | |
| 06. | |
Silent
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7:35 | |
| 07. | |
The Deal
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10:03 | |
| 08. | |
Sun & Ice
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6:34 | |
| 09. | |
Mobilia
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6:28 | |
| 10. | |
From Here We Go Sublime
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4:09 | |
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