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Today's artist is the recording alias of Magnus Birgersson, an electronic musician, composer, and sound designer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Birgersson's music spans the genres of ambient, IDM, downtempo, and psy-trance, and he has also composed numerous video game soundtracks, the Swedish electronic music artist is better known by his stage name Solar Fields, As of 2019, he has released eighteen albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge as well as its sequel, Mirror's Edge Catalyst. His latest album, Origin#03, was released on 1 June 2019.......N-Joy
I expected much more interest in Magnus' work he deserves it, hence i post this Discogs comment here "Wow, I definitely missed the bus on this guy, but in the last couple months, I have become well familiar with his material, and I have to say, it is just epic. Lots of percussive ambient, but with enough atmospheric pads to really flesh out the tracks and give his music a spacey but also emotional quality. Seriously, track after track after track, Solar Fields is just a joy to listen to."
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Gothenburg-based Swedish composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields in the late 1990s. Birgersson was raised in a musical family and began playing piano and synthesizers in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he began combining synthesizers with computers. In addition to his ambient work, he has also been a guitar player in rock bands, a pianist in jazz funk bands, and keyboard player in drum and bass bands."
Under the moniker Solar Fields he composed 15 albums and appeared on over 60 various compilations. His first solo release was an ambient album named Reflective Frequencies, released on Ultimae in 2001. This was followed two years later by Blue Moon Station , which also included downtempo and trance, and was designed as a single fluid story.In late 2005, Solar Fields composed Leaving Home and Extended, the latter being a limited edition. His fifth album EarthShine, launched in 2007, featured more upbeat soundscapes blending morning trance, progressive, psychedelic, tribal and ambient music. This up-tempo album was warmly received by the progressive and psytrance scenes. This led to Electronic Arts and DICE commissioning Solar Fields for the in-game score for Mirror's Edge, a first-person action adventure video game released worldwide on November 14, 2008. The soundtrack was included in the VGC's "Top 20 Original Soundtracks in Gaming".
The following year, Solar Fields composed Movements. The album was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners. The album Movements was also used as the soundtrack for the indie game Capsized from the small Canadian studio Alientrap in 2011. It remains his most popular album to date. In 2010, he used the harmonies and melodies of Movements in a remix album titled Altered - Second Movements and started the Origin series, four albums which aim to present archives and unreleased songs. Until We Meet the Sky and Random Friday were composed in parallel. In 2013, he released the second album in the Origin series, Origin #02.
He released his demo song "Cluster" later that year. His song "Pulse", along with a remix of it by Airwave, was released on June 30, 2014 by Joof Recordings;
In 2014 Birgersson started his own label, Droneform Records, and released a series of digital compilations featuring updated, remixed, and remastered tracks from his catalog; the albums were titled Red, Green, and Blue. On September 30, 2015, it was confirmed by DICE and Birgersson that he was creating the in-game score of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, and that he had been working on said score for twelve months as of the aforementioned date. More releases on his own label now Ourdom (2018) followed by a third edition of Origens, Origin#03 (2019)
Magnus has collaborated with Vincent Villuis, a.k.a. AES Dana, on H.U.V.A. Network and T.S.R. in the company of Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg from Carbon Based Lifeforms.
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EarthShine is definitely that EarthShattering, revolutionary trance album you would barely find anything similar to. There is nothing like it, neither before, nor after was released. It's in the league of its own. It's been 10+ years after the release, but even still you can barely come up with a trance music like this. Regular trance is clubby, has that common, generic patterns of build-up->breakdown->climax->folding scheme. Earthshine is not clubby in that particular sense. It's musical, and that's what makes it particularly amazing. You don't listen to 'trance' music here when you listen to this album. You listen to Music, which stylistically falls some where around – and embraces – Trance, Ambient and any other possible technical terms. It's not about generic sonic structures peculiar to generic trance, Magnus has definitely laced his soul in here which resulted in musical Stories. Each track has character, original and expressive in its own way.
This is what Profound trance sounds like. Trance with lush atmospheres, straight-out, sober and powerful. After more than 10 years after the release, these two are eternal classics of the genre for me – and I've had plenty to pick from. Needless to say that first listens upon revealing this album back in the days days nearly got me astonished and shocked. This is not an ordinary Trance album. It stands out. A true trance and true musical album.
.Solar Fields - EarthShine ( 535mb)
01 Summer 8:31
02 Kick Back 8:53
03 Black Arrow 10:02
04 Brainbow 11:22
05 Spectral Nation 12:02
06 Adjustment 9:49
07 February 9:42
08 Cruise 9:05
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This is another cornucopia of soundscapes and dreamworlds inside the minds eye. He maintains the chord progression archetypes that have given him his sound, while expounding in new and unique ways with how the tracks are layered and fuse. The detail and direction in every track is unparalleled. In Movements Solar Fields has one-upped himself; who'd have imagined he could blow Leaving Home out of the water like this?. Overall this album is another knockout
Solar Fields - Movements (flac 458mb)
01 Sol 7:44
02 Circles of Motion 8:09
03 Discovering 11:04
04 Sky Trees 7:05
05 The Stones are Not Too Busy 9:21
06 Dust 5:01
07 Das Bungalow 5:33
08 Feelings (Album Edit) 7:12
09 Patterns 4:08
10 The Road to Nothingness 6:46
11 Breeze 7:35
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The menu music titled "Introduction" on of the most sublime pieces of electronic music ever put to track. While its more or less an instrumental remix of the pop song "Still Alive" Lisa Miskovsky (which the soundtrack is more well known for), Solar Field's instrumental version exemplifies their prestigious sense in production, arranging, and synthesis. Hard to put into words but the moment that bass line drops, it all just makes sense and the whole piece revolving around that simple but indescribably tasteful melody makes every moment of this track pure bliss. The biggest portion of the album is of course the the music for each of the levels in the game. Rhythmically its uptempo DrumN'Bass-like music but with Solar Field's smooth psybient timbrel palette at play and it works magnificently in matching the pace of the game while also matching the clean futuristic metropolis aesthetic of the visual style. In game its effective background music, outside the game its just good background music. I personally like Kate and Shard the most out of these tracks. If the whole album was as exquisite as the Introduction track, this would be an easy 5/5. Still a very good soundtrack that well compliments an extremely creative and visually enriching game.
Solar Fields - Mirror's Edge (Original Videogame Score) (flac 507mb)
01 Introduction 5:34
02 Edge & Flight 6:55
03 Jacknife 6:25
04 Heat 7:01
05 Ropeburn 7:15
06 New Eden 7:52
07 Pirandello Kruger 7:08
08 Boat 7:30
09 Kate 7:13
10 Shard 7:16
11 Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive 4:34
12 Still Alive (Instrumental) 4:29
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Origin #1 is a superb collection of Magnus's music. It shows and evolution of his taste and talents, and his ability to always deliver textures and soundscapes that transport the listener. Automatic Sun is by far my favorite track from Origin #1. My only complaint is that it is too short... I have everyone of Solar Fields discs, and though some take some time to get to know, the more I listen to them the more I come to realize Magnus may just be a genius. Origing #1 took no time to get comfortable with. From the moment I heard Silent Walking, through Unite to the punctuation of that statement in Bigger Stream I was hooked. Almost There, Next Waiting, Embraced and Going In, to me, all serve as a preamble to Automatic Sun. The previous four tracks completely stand on their own merits, but when taken collectively with Automatic Sun as the conclusion to the sentence, it is nearly perfect in my mind. Reborn and OCT then finish the journey and it all ends up nicely at a point where if you start the music over again from the beginning, you can listen to Origin #1 for weeks on end.
Solar Fields - Origin # 01 ( flac 431mb)
01 Silent Walking 6:39
02 Unite 9:23
03 Bigger Stream 6:15
04 Almost There 7:16
05 Next Waiting 7:40
06 Embraced 7:25
07 Going In 7:48
08 Automatic Sun 3:30
09 Reborn 9:09
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Today's artist is the recording alias of Magnus Birgersson, an electronic musician, composer, and sound designer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Birgersson's music spans the genres of ambient, IDM, downtempo, and psy-trance, and he has also composed numerous video game soundtracks, the Swedish electronic music artist is better known by his stage name Solar Fields, As of 2019, he has released eighteen albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge as well as its sequel, Mirror's Edge Catalyst. His latest album, Origin#03, was released on 1 June 2019.......N-Joy
I expected much more interest in Magnus' work he deserves it, hence i post this Discogs comment here "Wow, I definitely missed the bus on this guy, but in the last couple months, I have become well familiar with his material, and I have to say, it is just epic. Lots of percussive ambient, but with enough atmospheric pads to really flesh out the tracks and give his music a spacey but also emotional quality. Seriously, track after track after track, Solar Fields is just a joy to listen to."
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Gothenburg-based Swedish composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields in the late 1990s. Birgersson was raised in a musical family and began playing piano and synthesizers in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he began combining synthesizers with computers. In addition to his ambient work, he has also been a guitar player in rock bands, a pianist in jazz funk bands, and keyboard player in drum and bass bands."
Under the moniker Solar Fields he composed 15 albums and appeared on over 60 various compilations. His first solo release was an ambient album named Reflective Frequencies, released on Ultimae in 2001. This was followed two years later by Blue Moon Station , which also included downtempo and trance, and was designed as a single fluid story.In late 2005, Solar Fields composed Leaving Home and Extended, the latter being a limited edition. His fifth album EarthShine, launched in 2007, featured more upbeat soundscapes blending morning trance, progressive, psychedelic, tribal and ambient music. This up-tempo album was warmly received by the progressive and psytrance scenes. This led to Electronic Arts and DICE commissioning Solar Fields for the in-game score for Mirror's Edge, a first-person action adventure video game released worldwide on November 14, 2008. The soundtrack was included in the VGC's "Top 20 Original Soundtracks in Gaming".
The following year, Solar Fields composed Movements. The album was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners. The album Movements was also used as the soundtrack for the indie game Capsized from the small Canadian studio Alientrap in 2011. It remains his most popular album to date. In 2010, he used the harmonies and melodies of Movements in a remix album titled Altered - Second Movements and started the Origin series, four albums which aim to present archives and unreleased songs. Until We Meet the Sky and Random Friday were composed in parallel. In 2013, he released the second album in the Origin series, Origin #02.
He released his demo song "Cluster" later that year. His song "Pulse", along with a remix of it by Airwave, was released on June 30, 2014 by Joof Recordings;
In 2014 Birgersson started his own label, Droneform Records, and released a series of digital compilations featuring updated, remixed, and remastered tracks from his catalog; the albums were titled Red, Green, and Blue. On September 30, 2015, it was confirmed by DICE and Birgersson that he was creating the in-game score of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, and that he had been working on said score for twelve months as of the aforementioned date. More releases on his own label now Ourdom (2018) followed by a third edition of Origens, Origin#03 (2019)
Magnus has collaborated with Vincent Villuis, a.k.a. AES Dana, on H.U.V.A. Network and T.S.R. in the company of Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg from Carbon Based Lifeforms.
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EarthShine is definitely that EarthShattering, revolutionary trance album you would barely find anything similar to. There is nothing like it, neither before, nor after was released. It's in the league of its own. It's been 10+ years after the release, but even still you can barely come up with a trance music like this. Regular trance is clubby, has that common, generic patterns of build-up->breakdown->climax->folding scheme. Earthshine is not clubby in that particular sense. It's musical, and that's what makes it particularly amazing. You don't listen to 'trance' music here when you listen to this album. You listen to Music, which stylistically falls some where around – and embraces – Trance, Ambient and any other possible technical terms. It's not about generic sonic structures peculiar to generic trance, Magnus has definitely laced his soul in here which resulted in musical Stories. Each track has character, original and expressive in its own way.
This is what Profound trance sounds like. Trance with lush atmospheres, straight-out, sober and powerful. After more than 10 years after the release, these two are eternal classics of the genre for me – and I've had plenty to pick from. Needless to say that first listens upon revealing this album back in the days days nearly got me astonished and shocked. This is not an ordinary Trance album. It stands out. A true trance and true musical album.
.Solar Fields - EarthShine ( 535mb)
01 Summer 8:31
02 Kick Back 8:53
03 Black Arrow 10:02
04 Brainbow 11:22
05 Spectral Nation 12:02
06 Adjustment 9:49
07 February 9:42
08 Cruise 9:05
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This is another cornucopia of soundscapes and dreamworlds inside the minds eye. He maintains the chord progression archetypes that have given him his sound, while expounding in new and unique ways with how the tracks are layered and fuse. The detail and direction in every track is unparalleled. In Movements Solar Fields has one-upped himself; who'd have imagined he could blow Leaving Home out of the water like this?. Overall this album is another knockout
Solar Fields - Movements (flac 458mb)
01 Sol 7:44
02 Circles of Motion 8:09
03 Discovering 11:04
04 Sky Trees 7:05
05 The Stones are Not Too Busy 9:21
06 Dust 5:01
07 Das Bungalow 5:33
08 Feelings (Album Edit) 7:12
09 Patterns 4:08
10 The Road to Nothingness 6:46
11 Breeze 7:35
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The menu music titled "Introduction" on of the most sublime pieces of electronic music ever put to track. While its more or less an instrumental remix of the pop song "Still Alive" Lisa Miskovsky (which the soundtrack is more well known for), Solar Field's instrumental version exemplifies their prestigious sense in production, arranging, and synthesis. Hard to put into words but the moment that bass line drops, it all just makes sense and the whole piece revolving around that simple but indescribably tasteful melody makes every moment of this track pure bliss. The biggest portion of the album is of course the the music for each of the levels in the game. Rhythmically its uptempo DrumN'Bass-like music but with Solar Field's smooth psybient timbrel palette at play and it works magnificently in matching the pace of the game while also matching the clean futuristic metropolis aesthetic of the visual style. In game its effective background music, outside the game its just good background music. I personally like Kate and Shard the most out of these tracks. If the whole album was as exquisite as the Introduction track, this would be an easy 5/5. Still a very good soundtrack that well compliments an extremely creative and visually enriching game.
Solar Fields - Mirror's Edge (Original Videogame Score) (flac 507mb)
01 Introduction 5:34
02 Edge & Flight 6:55
03 Jacknife 6:25
04 Heat 7:01
05 Ropeburn 7:15
06 New Eden 7:52
07 Pirandello Kruger 7:08
08 Boat 7:30
09 Kate 7:13
10 Shard 7:16
11 Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive 4:34
12 Still Alive (Instrumental) 4:29
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Origin #1 is a superb collection of Magnus's music. It shows and evolution of his taste and talents, and his ability to always deliver textures and soundscapes that transport the listener. Automatic Sun is by far my favorite track from Origin #1. My only complaint is that it is too short... I have everyone of Solar Fields discs, and though some take some time to get to know, the more I listen to them the more I come to realize Magnus may just be a genius. Origing #1 took no time to get comfortable with. From the moment I heard Silent Walking, through Unite to the punctuation of that statement in Bigger Stream I was hooked. Almost There, Next Waiting, Embraced and Going In, to me, all serve as a preamble to Automatic Sun. The previous four tracks completely stand on their own merits, but when taken collectively with Automatic Sun as the conclusion to the sentence, it is nearly perfect in my mind. Reborn and OCT then finish the journey and it all ends up nicely at a point where if you start the music over again from the beginning, you can listen to Origin #1 for weeks on end.
Solar Fields - Origin # 01 ( flac 431mb)
01 Silent Walking 6:39
02 Unite 9:23
03 Bigger Stream 6:15
04 Almost There 7:16
05 Next Waiting 7:40
06 Embraced 7:25
07 Going In 7:48
08 Automatic Sun 3:30
09 Reborn 9:09
10 OCT 15:50
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3 comments:
Thank you for this and last Sundaze.
I was indeed motivated to give Solar Fields a shot thanks to the comments regarding your surprise with the interest in Magnus' work as well as the comment from Discogs. Earthshine is pure pleasure. I am looking forward to the rest of the offerings.
Thanks for the push. I needed it.
You know latin too Rho?!
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