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Video: The Field Elaborates On His Looping State of Mind

Looping and the sublime, subtle joys of repetition in electronic music will never go away but, in the meantime, we'll have to deal with a lot more electrocore/wobblecore bullshit from producers like you-know-who-ex. The Field's Axel Willner, however...

Looping and the sublime, subtle joys of repetition in electronic music will never go away but, in the meantime, we’ll have to deal with a lot more electrocore/wobblecore bullshit from producers like you-know-who-ex. The Field’s Axel Willner, however, maintains as one of electronic music’s finest keepers of the faith: “[Repetition[ demands some things from the listener; you can make up whatever you want in the loops,” he says. Here, courtesy of French website the Drone, Willner talks more about the things you hear that might not be in the music, life without bass drops, and a fading laptop-as-performance culture. A worthy five minutes.

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