The Field + special guests

Strange Brew presents...

The Field (Kompakt / Studio Barnhus) LIVE - AV Show
+ special guests

**HYBRID SEATED / STANDING SHOW - 60 SEATS AVAILABLE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED**

Wednesday 18th November

7pm - 10pm
Ages: No age restrictions (under 18s accompanied by a 21+ adult)

Across the past six albums for Kompakt, Axel Willner has steadily refined and expanded the singular musical language of The Field, transforming the hypnotic repetition of minimal techno into something deeply melodic, atmospheric and emotionally charged. His acclaimed 2007 debut, From Here We Go Sublime, established the blueprint, weaving fragments of familiar melodies into endlessly cycling patterns that blurred the boundaries between ambient, techno and shoegaze. With Yesterday and Today (2009), Willner introduced live instrumentation and a more organic dimension to his sound, a development carried further on Looping State of Mind (2011), where warm, dub-inflected grooves and intricate layers of instrumentation gave his looping compositions a newfound physicality. Cupid’s Head (2013) marked a darker, more introspective turn, returning to a largely solo approach and sharpening the tension between repetition, texture and rhythm. On The Follower (2016), Willner explored a more rugged, driving sound, balancing mechanical precision with shadowy drones and subtle experimentation. Finally, Infinite Moment (2018) opened up a more expansive and contemplative landscape, exchanging some of the urgency of his earlier work for slower rhythms, luminous synthesizers and a pervasive sense of melancholy tempered by hope.

Eight years after Infinite Moment, Axel Willner re-emerges as The Field with Now You Exist, his seventh full- length release, a five-track release on Stockholm’s Studio Barnhus that signals both a return and a fresh beginning. Released in May 2026, the record revisits the looping structures and meditative expansiveness that first established his reputation, while allowing a looser, more organic sensibility to emerge. Across ‘In Our Dreams’ and ‘333 706’, slowly unfolding chords and accumulating harmonies create the familiar sensation of being carried along by a current whose direction is never entirely predictable. ‘Hey Baby’ introduces a more playful, understated groove, while ‘Another Day’ brings a tender vocal presence and a renewed melodic immediacy to his intricate sonic framework. The title track closes the record with a restrained yet deeply affecting sense of euphoria. Released through a label whose adventurous, emotionally open approach complements Willner’s renewed perspective, Now You Exist feels less like an attempt to recreate the past than a rediscovery of what made The Field’s music so compelling in the first place. The loops remain, the hypnotic repetitions endure, but the atmosphere is more vulnerable, more human and more willing to leave its edges unfinished. After years away from the project, Willner returns not with a grand declaration, but with a quietly affirmative statement of existence, connection and the possibility of beginning again.

Throughout this evolution, the essential elements of The Field’s music have remained remarkably consistent: fragments that become melodies, repetition that becomes movement, and seemingly minimal structures that gradually unfold into immersive, almost transcendent experiences. Together, these six albums form a distinctive body of work in which incremental changes yield profound emotional shifts, reaffirming Willner’s ability to make electronic music that feels at once meticulously constructed, endlessly hypnotic and unmistakably human.