From Here We Go Sublime
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| Studio album by The Field | ||||
| Released | March 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2004–06 | |||
| Genre | Techno | |||
| Length | 65:45 | |||
| Label | Kompakt | |||
| Producer | Axel Willner | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 90/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The Boston Phoenix |  |
| Collective | 5/5 |
| The Irish Times | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 9.0/10 |
| PopMatters | 8/10 |
| Resident Advisor | 5/5 |
| Stylus Magazine | A |
| Uncut | |
From Here We Go Sublime is the debut studio album by Swedish electronic music producer The Field. The album, produced and recorded by Axel Willner, who goes by the name The Field, was released by Kompakt in March 2007.
From Here We Go Sublime consists primarily of tracks recorded by Willner as the Field between 2004 and 2006, though the album also includes tracks produced before this period, one of which was originally recorded under a different alias. Willner's production style is sample-based, employing cut-up and resequenced manipulations of snippets of other artists' music, including Kate Bush's "Under Ice" on "Over the Ice",Lionel Richie's "Hello" on "A Paw in My Face",Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" on "Everday", and The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You" on "From Here We Go Sublime".
Despite From Here We Go Sublime being released on the Kompakt label, known primarily for German techno, the album's sound has been described as "less techno than it is trance". Jess Harvell of Pitchfork Media also noted the style's similarity due to an "anthemic bigness to Willner's little sounds, a certain shameless bombastic quality to the way he deploys his loops and builds his arpeggio" and the "elementary drum tracks, often just a deflated machine thump flecked with hi-hat hiss".
The themes of the music on From Here We Go Sublime has been noted for its "unabashed emotionalism" with songs suggesting "bliss", "melancholy" and "loss".From Here We Go Sublime's song titles have been described as vague, and the songs themselves having no intelligible lyrics beyond sampled vocals which have been edited and chopped up. Willner dislikes lyrical content and chose to treat sampled vocals as instruments rather than as voices, as "it gives (the music) a special feeling."
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