The Field discusses how he makes music

THERE’S an urban myth that Coldplay’s ‘The Scientist’ played in reverse sounds exactly like ‘Silent’ by cult electronica act The Field. 

I’ve actually put this to the test, courtesy of a backwards edit of the Chris Martin dirge on YouTube. But while the tracks undoubtedly share a melodic melancholy, it was hard to be definitive. That’s because it’s all a figment of the internet’s collective imagination, says Axel Willner, the Berlin-based Stockholm stoic who records and performs as The Field.

“It is so funny what the internet believes,” he says in a clipped Nordic-German accent. “People can be funny. They think I’m sampling stuff on songs where I’m not actually sampling at all.”