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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0880319029820 Label: Kompakt Germany Manufacturer: Kompakt Germany MPN: 57 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Kompakt Germany Release Date: April 05, 2007 Studio: Kompakt Germany Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Electronic music usually profits from simplicity, a point the Field's Axel Willner understood well when he made From Here We Go Sublime. Hailing from Sweden, Willner's record has a weightless allure built out of droning spaces and populated with puffy cloud melodies that float and hover. It's not exactly minimalist, because the layers are too complex and full of forward motion. But the assured way they repeat and loop into a dance-friendly texture would make both Brian Eno and Underworld proud. FHWGS has no interest in the usual peaks and valleys of trance, and yet its consistent anthemic oomph makes it a distant relative of that oft-derided genre. Willner's patience and his emphasis on muted beats enable him to get maximum impact with only slight tweaks. "Over the Ice" sets the table with soft tones and scattered, wordless voices before dropping a hyper cross-rhythm, while glitch-y sidebars frame the exceedingly kind melody that drives "A Paw in My Voice." Even when the BPM notch gets kicked up on a relative burner like "Everyday," it fits right in with the record's benevolent disposition. It's brilliant stuff, a less-is-more epic that wafts onto the dance floor like a gust of summer wind. --Matthew Cooke Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Headphone Commute ReviewSlapping the terms like "trance", "minimal", and "techno", may quickly dismiss this album's true essence. But these labels shine some truth on what the music has to offer. The album undeniably employs 4/4 rhythm, which, I suppose, classifies it as techno; its minuscule musical progression begs for the minimal adjective; and its repetitive and hypnotic structure, no doubt puts people into trance. But that's just on the surface. Beyond the deeper layers, Axel Willner, who goes by the name The Field, ... Read More Rating:  - Headphone Commute ReviewSlapping the terms like "trance", "minimal", and "techno", may quickly dismiss this album's true essence. But these labels shine some truth on what the music has to offer. The album undeniably employs 4/4 rhythm, which, I suppose, classifies it as techno; its minuscule musical progression begs for the minimal adjective; and its repetitive and hypnotic structure, no doubt puts people into trance. But that's just on the surface. Beyond the deeper layers, Axel Willner, who goes by the name The Field, ... Read More Rating:  - Tepid electronic music that's okay for indie scenesters to likeI was leery when I saw that Pitchfork Media, that bastion of scenester fashionability staffed by stiff-jointed, tone-deaf English majors, gave this album a 9.0. Turns out my misapprehension was well-founded. "From Here We Go Sublime" is a surprisingly lukewarm, redundant release from the frequently above-par Kompakt label. The main disappointment is that there is no sense of build-up or progression to be found on this disc: tracks start in media res, already plateauing, and remain more ... Read More Rating: - From here we become fans...This is essential music. Just when I thought that electronica had run its course; just when I thought that electronic musicians around the world had exhaused all the "bleeps", "bloops", bass lines, and cold beats that computers could muster, Axel from Sweeden comes out with this. The music seems simple - insanely so. But that's the beauty of it; it's not bloated. Rating: - Get itThe question here is simple - if you are looking at reviews it is because you want to know whether you should buy it or not. The answer is easy as well: Get it. It's worth it |
