These New Field Remixes Are a Perfectly Sublime Way to Start the Week

The Field's original "Cupid's Head" is a solid enough six minutes of choral loops-as-atmosphere—but cut through with a bit realer of a techno beat than you'd associate with "atmosphere" or even the ambient-techno subgenre. It's like a wall of wavering colors moving at you at just past peak hours velocity, and by the time the wall's on you it's far too late to realize that it's actually made of solid stone and not the vapor it seemed from a distance. Just as it becomes altogether too heavy or dense, the track is over.

As is a whole lot of the Field's loopy catalogy, "Cupid's Head" is an ideal remix candidate, and Kompakt got a collection of artists on board that's not to be fucked with: Tim Hecker, Vatican Shadow, John Tejada, and the ambient-techno high priest himself, Gas. The result is a whole album, mostly focused on the aforementioned song but with a couple of surprises. You can sort through the tracks below according to your own tastes, but the straight-up Gas remix is as good a starting point as any while the Vatican and Tejada treatments are both cool as hell for their different genre lenses.