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Solar Fields is the recording alias of
Magnus Birgersson, an electronic musician, composer, and sound designer from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Birgersson's music spans the genres of ambient, IDM, downtempo, and psy-trance, and he has also composed numerous video game soundtracks.
Birgersson signed to French trance/ambient label Ultimae Records in 2001 and released ambient album
Reflective Frequencies, his full-length debut, that year. The more upbeat
Blue Moon Station followed in 2003. Two
Solar Fields albums,
Extended and
Leaving Home, appeared in 2005.
EarthShine,
Solar Fields' first complete foray into uptempo psy-trance, arrived in 2007. The year 2009 brought two of
Solar Fields' most well-received works: solo full-length
Movements and
Birgersson's acclaimed soundtrack to action video game Mirror's Edge. Remix album
Altered: Second Movements appeared in 2010, as did Origin #01, the first album in a series of unreleased archival compositions. Full-length studio album Until We Meet the Sky, one of
Solar Fields' more challenging releases, appeared at the end of 2011.
Random Friday,
Solar Fields' return to progressive trance, arrived in 2012. Origin #02 was released in 2013. In 2014
Birgersson started his own label, Droneform Records, and released a series of digital compilations featuring updated, remixed, and remastered tracks from his catalog; the albums were titled Red, Green, and Blue. ~ Paul Simpson