Solar Fields

Solar Fields
Solar Fields
Background information
Origin	Gothenburg, Sweden
Genres	IDM, ambient, psybient, downtempo, Progressive Psy Trance, Progressive Trance
Years active	2001 – present
Labels	Ultimae Records, Joof Recordings
Associated acts	H.U.V.A Network, T.S.R.
Website	http://www.solarfields.com/

Members	Magnus Birgersson

Solar Fields is the stage name of Swedish electronic music artist Magnus Birgersson. As of 2014, he has released fifteen albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge.^[1]

Biography

Gothenburg-based Swedish composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields in the late 1990s.

Magnus 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."

He currently collaborates 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.

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 5th 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 (EA) 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.

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.^[2]

On September 30, 2015, it was confirmed by DICE,^[3] as well as Solar Fields himself,^[4] that he is indeed 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.

Discography

Studio albums

Reflective Frequencies (2001)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"6.7"	4:23
2.	"Floating Channels"	7:46
3.	"Self Transforming Experience (First Movement)"	3:47
4.	"Blue Light..."	4:07
5.	"...Red Vortex"	4:46
6.	"Echoing Spectrum"	4:29
7.	"Inherit Velocity"	2:40
8.	"Zero Rotation"	7:07
9.	"Overlapping Particles"	5:27
10.	"Self Transforming Experience (Second Movement)"	7:05
11.	"Zone 12"	4:31
12.	"Nea 3"	2:47
13.	"Outlined Surfaces"	7:48
14.	"Breathing Neutron Empire"	6:03
Total length:		72:41

Blue Moon Station (2003)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Confusion Illusion"	7:00
2.	"Elevator Sunshine Girl"	6:02
3.	"Cosmic Dessert"	5:58
4.	"Magic Eye"	8:00
5.	"Infection 268-7"	8:32
6.	"Magnetic Air"	6:20
7.	"Majestic Feeling"	9:33
8.	"Blue Moon Station"	7:32
9.	"Planet Zoo"	7:00
10.	"Third Time (A-Version)"	6:24
11.	"Swimming with Stones"	6:57
Total length:		79:12

Extended (2005)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Air Song (8 AM Version)"	16:39
2.	"No Answer"	9:35
3.	"Station 5"	10:32
4.	"Winter Sun"	8:32
5.	"Combinations"	16:01
6.	"A Place to Think"	5:59
7.	"Detection (Far and Extended)"	12:37
Total length:		79:55

Leaving Home (2005)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Home"	4:41
2.	"Time Slide"	5:01
3.	"Insum"	8:24
4.	"Star Fruit"	1:06
5.	"Magnetosphere (Star Fruit Part 2)"	2:45
6.	"Stereo Hypnosis (Magnetosphere Part 2)"	4:08
7.	"Air Song"	12:21
8.	"Cocoon Moon"	10:37
9.	"Monogram"	15:45
10.	"Times Are Good"	7:42
11.	"Leaving Home"	7:27
Total length:		79:51

EarthShine (2007)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Summer"	8:29
2.	"Kick Back"	8:52
3.	"Black Arrow"	10:01
4.	"Brainbow"	11:20
5.	"Spectral Nation"	12:00
6.	"Adjustment"	9:48
7.	"February"	9:41
8.	"Cruise"	9:06
Total length:		79:13

Movements (2009)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sol"	7:44
2.	"Circles of Motion"	8:09
3.	"Discovering"	11:04
4.	"Sky Trees"	7:05
5.	"The Stones Are Not Too Busy"	9:21
6.	"Dust"	5:01
7.	"Das Bungalow"	5:33
8.	"Feelings"	7:12
9.	"Patterns"	4:08
10.	"The Road to Nothingness"	6:46
11.	"Breeze"	7:35
Total length:		79:33

Mirror's Edge (EA™ Games Soundtrack) (2009)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Introduction"	Magnus Birgersson	5:34
2.	"Edge & Flight"	Magnus Birgersson	6:56
3.	"Jacknife"	Magnus Birgersson	6:25
4.	"Heat"	Magnus Birgersson	7:01
5.	"Ropeburn"	Magnus Birgersson	7:15
6.	"New Eden"	Magnus Birgersson	7:52
7.	"Pirandello Kruger"	Magnus Birgersson	7:09
8.	"Boat"	Magnus Birgersson	7:30
9.	"Kate"	Magnus Birgersson	7:13
10.	"Shard"	Magnus Birgersson	7:17
11.	"Still Alive"	Lisa Miskovsky	4:34
12.	"Still Alive (Instrumental)"	Lisa Miskovsky	4:29
Total length:			79:11

Altered – Second Movements (2010)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Insolate"	9:15
2.	"eMotion of Circles"	7:23
3.	"Rediscover"	9:46
4.	"Closing the Sky"	6:34
5.	"Our Blue Stones"	6:23
6.	"Universal Dust"	6:25
7.	"Bngl.w"	7:20
8.	"Feel"	8:43
9.	"Changing Patterns"	4:11
10.	"Staring Into the Nothingness"	7:31
11.	"A Breeze Through Life"	5:42
Total length:		79:07

Origin #01 (2010)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Silent Walking (Origin 2004)"	6:39
2.	"Unite (Origin 2007)"	9:23
3.	"Bigger Stream (Origin 2005)"	6:15
4.	"Almost There (Origin 2002)"	7:15
5.	"Next Waiting (Origin 2006)"	7:40
6.	"Embraced (Origin 2004)"	5:25
7.	"Going In (Origin 2004)"	7:48
8.	"Automatic Sun (Origin Unknown)"	3:30
9.	"Reborn (Origin 2008)"	9:09
10.	"OCT (Origin 2004)"	15:50
Total length:		78:48

Until We Meet the Sky (2011)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Phase 1 - From The Next End"	9:17
2.	"Phase 2 - Broken Radio Echo"	3:56
3.	"Phase 3 - Singing Machine"	6:55
4.	"Phase 4 - After Midnight, They Speak"	3:40
5.	"Phase 5 - When the Worlds Collide"	6:33
6.	"Phase 6 - Dialogue With A River"	10:07
7.	"Phase 7 - Forgotten"	3:15
8.	"Phase 8 - Night Traffic City"	9:54
9.	"Phase 9 - Sombrero"	5:44
10.	"Phase 10 - Last Step in Vacuum"	9:13
11.	"Phase 11 - Until We Meet the Sky"	5:02
12.	"Phase 12 - Epilogue"	5:18
Total length:		78:47

Random Friday (2012)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Light Control"	4:57
2.	"Random Friday"	6:16
3.	"Cobalt 2.5"	7:32
4.	"In Motion"	8:15
5.	"Daydreaming"	10:42
6.	"Swoosh"	7:40
7.	"Landing Party"	9:37
8.	"Lift Off"	9:31
9.	"Perception"	10:35
10.	"Polarity"	2:56
Total length:		77:55

Origin #02 (2013)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Landform (Origin 2005)"	9:17
2.	"Mystic Science (Origin 2007)"	8:43
3.	"Active Sky (Origin 2003)"	6:56
4.	"Echo (Origin 2009)"	7:09
5.	"Unknown Presence (Origin 2008)"	5:50
6.	"Surface (Origin 2007)"	6:30
7.	"Lifebook (Origin 2003)"	8:12
8.	"The Missing (Origin 2006)"	9:36
9.	"Falling Shadows (Origin 2005)"	6:55
10.	"Asteroid (Time Machine Lullaby) [Origin Unknown]"	8:28
Total length:		77:34

Red (2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Jeezlh - Remastered"	9:14
2.	"Velvet Reptile - Remastered"	8:58
3.	"Confusion Illusion - Remastered"	7:28
4.	"Union Light - Remastered"	7:29
5.	"Combinations (On/Off Edit) - Remastered"	5:12
6.	"Fiat Lux - Remastered"	9:19
7.	"Electric Fluid (Early Mix) - Remastered"	6:51
8.	"Times Are Good (Sometimes Remix) - Remastered"	8:06
9.	"Compressed Universe (Edit) - Remastered"	6:51
10.	"OnFlow (Edit) - Remastered"	8:23
Total length:		77:51

Green (2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Level Out - Remastered"	8:55
2.	"Magic Eye (Remix) - Remastered"	10:02
3.	"Sol (Remix) - Remastered"	7:30
4.	"Spiritual Ocean - Remastered"	6:49
5.	"Levitate - Remastered"	11:23
6.	"Insum (Remix) - Remastered"	8:17
7.	"H.U.V.A. Network - Rain Geometry (Solar Fields Remix) - Remastered"	7:51
8.	"Respiratory Rate - Remastered"	7:26
9.	"The Sight Is White - Remastered"	7:26
10.	"Third Time (T Version) - Remastered"	8:16
Total length:		83:55

Blue (2014)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Life - Remastered"	6:38
2.	"Good Times - Remastered"	7:45
3.	"Air Song (Remix) - Remastered"	7:54
4.	"Passage - Remastered"	7:41
5.	"Water Silence - Remastered"	6:01
6.	"Blue Moon Station - Remastered"	7:53
7.	"Small Little Green Cubes - Remastered"	9:47
8.	"Something Crystal - Remastered"	8:41
9.	"Filteria - Cloud Kingdom (Solar Fields Remix) Remastered"	10:45
10.	"In Motion (Good Morning Edit) Remastered"	11:27
Total length:		84:25

Soundtrack

2016: Mirror's Edge Catalyst
2011: Superkär
2011: Capsized
2009: Mirror's Edge
2006: Vaniljtigern
2005: Universeum - To live in space
2005: Second chance
2004: Borderline

References

↑ "News from Magnus". Retrieved 2008-11-04.
↑ "Pulse". Retrieved June 30, 2014.
↑ http://www.mirrorsedge.com/news/solar-fields-returns-to-create-mirrors-edge-catalyst-soundtrack
↑ https://www.facebook.com/solarfields?fref=nf

External links

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