But the overall atmosphere is quite endearing, creating a sense of prowess and openness, which inevitably fitted perfectly with the game as the player used free-flowing parkour to traverse the vast brightly coloured cityscapes.īut enough about the game, the album also works on its own purely as an album to listen to while you're running, writing and so on. Each track creates two general moods, the calm and the action and will often shift between the two, sometimes surprisingly smoothly and seemlessly. The end product shows a varying contrast of atmospheric tension with heart-pounding action, ultimately making it an exciting, yet still ambient electronic album in its own right.īeing a soundtrack, each track represents a level in the game, most clocking in at just over seven minutes. He incorporates pounding to soft beat rhythms, sharp to subtle glitchy tones, and well placed melodies and bass-lines. Solar Fields proves that he can take his signature electronic ambient sound and give it a cinematic overhaul that works coherently throughout. He is currently working on his next Solar Fields album as well as some new and exciting collaborations.Review Summary: An exciting and smartly written package of electronic ambience and cinematic tension. ![]() In June 2016 Solar Fields Released the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Official soundtrack album which spans over 5 hours of music. On September 30, 2015, it was confirmed by DICE, as well as Solar Fields himself, that he was indeed creating the in-game score of Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst. The albums Red, Green, Blue were the first three releases on this label. In 2013 he released the second chapter in the Origin serie Origin # 02.Ģ014 Solar Fields started his own label called “Droneform records” where he now releases most of his music. and two orphic albums composed in parallel confirm his ability to switch and explore new musical genres. In 2010, as in the reminiscence of a dream, he subtly recalled the harmonies and melodies with an immersive remix album – Second Movements and started the Origin series, four albums which aim to present archives and unreleased songs. The album was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners and received excellent press. The following year Solar Fields composed to relate the changes in his artistic life. ![]() The soundtrack hit the VGC Top 20 Original Soundtracks in Gaming. This led to Electronic Arts (EA) and DICE commissioning the in-game score for Mirror’s Edge, a new first-person action adventure game released worldwide on 14th November 2008. This up-tempo opus was warmly welcomed by the progressive and psytrance scenes and playlisted by top Djs. His 5th album, launched in 2007, offered an excursion into upbeat soundscapes blending blasting morning Trance, progressive, original psychedelic, tribal and ambient realms sculpting his own style with outstanding mastery. These two albums received excellent comments from the media and industry professionals, opening new horizons for Magnus Birgersson and his true visionary work. Late 2005 Solar Fields composed and, the later being a limited edition. A very promising debut which set the pace for two years later, where the artist explored the high tech downtempo and trance energies and focused on the notion of a long fluid story in a futuristic environment. The first solo release, signed on Ultimae in 2001 presented an ambient music patchwork with a constant yet ever-changing structure, at times cold and mechanic, at others warm and soothing. Under moniker Solar Fields, he composed 17 albums and appeared on over 60 various compilations. in the company of Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg from Carbon Based Lifeforms. ![]() He currently collaborates with Vincent Villuis aka AES Dana on H.U.V.A. I have also been involved in all kind of different projects, from guitar player in rock bands to pianist in Jazz funk band, keyboard player in drum n bass band.” In the mid 80’s I started to hook up synthesizers to computers and I’ve been doing that since then. During this period I also got introduced to synthesizers. Been having music and instruments around me in the family from the very beginning. In an interview Magnus recalls: ”Music happened to me the day I was born. As a High-Tech sound designer and multi-instrumentalist, Magnus Birgersson developed Studio Jupiter, a living museum of machines in which he builds his unique sound universe, poles apart from current trends in the genre with Solar Fields he explores the wide possibilities of electronic music from depth to floating atmospheres, cultivating contrasts and subtlety with brio. In the late 90s, Göteborg based Swedish composer Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields, a project considered like one of the most productive and creative in the Scandinavian electronic music scene.
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