SAMPLEDFielded is the Backwoodz artist who might have engineered your favorite rapper's album
A trained musician turned bedroom producer, an R&B singer built on vulnerability, and a fixture in museum spaces from the Guggenheim to Art Basel.
Backwoodz calls Fielded an unsolvable Rubik's cube of pop archetypes and underground sensibilities, which sounds like label copy until you look at the résumé. The Brooklyn-based singer and producer is a trained musician who became an experimental bedroom producer, a poignant R&B vocalist, and an engineer who may well have worked on a rap record you own.
The voice
The label's phrasing — a powerful voice that thrives off vulnerability — is accurate. Fielded sings big, but the material is built around exposure rather than display. Underneath the genre-agnostic production, the subject is the oldest one there is: love and loss.
Beyond the club circuit
Fielded has performed at The Bass Museum in Miami, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Guggenheim and the New Museum, plus Frieze Art Fair and Art Basel in collaboration with sound artist Naama Tsabar. That art-world track record is unusual on a rap label and explains why their work sits comfortably next to something as far out as ØKSE.
In the catalog
Fielded's Plus One was produced by Child Actor, and their voice anchors key moments elsewhere in the catalog — including billy woods' "Western Education is Forbidden" and Armand Hammer's "Halloween Fell On A Weekend," both produced by Jeff Markey.
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