Imaginary North
Kilometre Club
Kilometre Club is the moniker of Toronto's Daniel Field (he/him), who creates high concept and ambitious electronic and ambient music. He is a prolific composer, elementary school teacher, and father of three who plays many instruments with a focus on guitars and synthesizers.
Contact: imaginarynorth@gmail.com
Discography Highlights
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Biography
Toronto’s Daniel Field (he/him, b. September 6, 1984) first used the moniker Kilometre Club in 2012, creating mellow folk-inspired electronica with limited instruments. A short EP and one live performance followed, and then the project went silent, with Daniel focusing instead on writing folky indie music, his family of three young children, and his full time job as an elementary school teacher.
Daniel has been making music and recording since he was 12 years old, writing hundreds of songs, recording using just about any method possible - usually with limited fidelity and without attention to detail - playing sporadic shows solo and with friends and family.
In mid-2020, Daniel entered the dual rabbit holes of synthesizers and guitar pedals. After a period of limited creativity due to just a few of the world’s events, he began a vast and ambitious project to create a song for every subway station on Toronto’s TTC, with tracks timed and themed to the distances between each, released under the reincarnated Kilometre Club name. With press from local and national organizations, Daniel used the momentum to further explore electronic sounds and textures.
Kilometre Club’s early music was mostly electronica on the experimental side, culminating in the bizarre and absurd ‘Symphony for Funeral Kazoo’, which featured synthesized voices reading nonsense or public domain content over cacophonies of synths, guitars, kazoos, and more.
Ambient music has been a genre that has found a home in Daniel’s life for many years, playing the background to many report cards written, assignments marked, and silence filled. Soon, Kilometre Club evolved to become an almost exclusively ambient project. As the eight album TTC project completed in September 2021, very few of Daniel’s songs would use percussion.
With increased focus on textures and tones, Kilometre Club’s ambient music began gaining traction on streaming services, especially Spotify. The majority of Kilometre Club’s music has been released independently, though he has released music on Mare Nostrum Label, Valley View Records, Slow Echo, Goodnight Nobody Records, Intraset, Polar Seas Recordings, Healing Sound Propagandist, and more.
Kilometre Club’s sound often features layers of synthesizers, guitar swells and loops, ethereal textures that often evoke nostalgia, and on some tracks, field recordings of nature, cities, or household items.
With over 500 tracks released since September 2020, Kilometre Club has been extremely prolific in exploring a variety of themes, sounds and concepts. A full discography can be found on streaming services as well as his Bandcamp page.
In May 2022, Daniel launched the ambient label Imaginary North, focusing on high concept compilations and releases from Toronto and beyond. With almost monthly releases, it culminated in the June 2023 release of Today Until Tomorrow, a 24-hour-long album of longform ambient and experimental music calling attention to climate change.
Kilometre Club is continuing to make music, collaborating with local and international musicians, beginning to put together live performances of his music, and finding new ways to share his sounds to the world.
Kilometre Club Discography
Albums:
Symphony for Funeral Kazoo (2021)
Ambient Music (2021)
Dronathan Taylor Thomas (2021)
up until sunrise (2021)
Calm Horizon: One Hour Yoga Meditation Massage Healing In Nature (2021)
Lost Signal (2021)
A Lasting Light: Ambient Hanukkah (2021) [Sound Meditation]
Then (2022)
Futures (2022) [Imaginary North]
Minus Time (2022)
Memory Canvas (2022) [Valley View Records]
Pasts (2023) [Valley View Records]
How To Unravel (2023) [We Are Busy Bodies]
Cloud Paths (2023) [Valley View Records] (w/ Bahrambient, Retland)
Nightwalker (2024)
Uoiea (2024) [Healing Sound Propagandist]
An Alphabet Of Distance (2024) [Imaginary North]
At Dusk Hour The Crickets (2024) [Polar Seas Recordings]
Let Us Compare Geographies (2024) [élan vital]
Earnest Tub (2024) [Imaginary North]
Mixtapes/Remix Albums:
Spooky Season (2020)
Spooky Season 2 (2021)
That's Quite Enough, Kilometre Club: Odds and Ends From an Obnoxiously Prolific 2021 (2021)
Then Again... (2022)
Presents: Futures Reworks (2022) [Imaginary North]
Spooky Season 3 (2022)
Shack / Cabin / Shed / Barn (2022)
The Golem Variations (2023)
TTC Series:
TTC Line 1, Part 1 (2020)
TTC Line 1, Part 2 (2020)
TTC Line 1, Part 3 (2021)
TTC Line 1, Part 4 (2021)
TTC Line 2, Part 1(2021)
TTC Line 2, Part 2 (2021)
TTC Line 3 (2021)
TTC Line 4 (2021)
Singles/EPs:
The Flood (2021)
Let Us Paint A Better World (2021)
Apollo (2021) (with Sleepsleeprepeat)
After All, It Is Well (2021) (with The Goodnight Project)
Meltwater Cave (2021) (with Unknown Observer)
Flow (2022) (with Bahrambient)
Continental Drift (2022) (with Raphah)
Song for Lungwort (lobaria pulmonaria, a large epiphytic lichen) (2022)
Song for Milkweed (asclepias, a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants) (2022)
Archipelago (2022) [Mare Nostrum]
last summer (2022)
Breeze (2022) [Valley View Records]
Song for Honeysuckle (lonicera periclymenum, a species of flowering plant) (2022)
lake dream (2023) [slow echo]
Dream Gopher (2023)
Springtime Bloom (2023) (with Center of Attention)
City of Angles (2023)
Outside Choices (2023) [Imaginary North] (with Astrolope)
Open Skies (2023)
Windsurfer (2023) [Ambi_Sonik]
Open Skies - Center Of Attention Rework (2024)
Wrested (2024) [Echoes In The Valley] (with Human Is Alive)
Cool Wave (2024) [Echoes In The Valley]
Compilation Appearances:
Widest Whispers (2022) [Afterglow - Sound Meditation]
Scarborough Bluffs (2022) [Imaginary North Transmission 001]
A Field of Violets / ways (with andarctica) (2022) [Living Drone Edition 3 - fveld]
Let's Wait For The Sky To Smile (2022) [Imaginary North Transmission 002]
The Space Between The Cracks (2022) [Dive In: Chapter 4 - Mare Nostrum]
As Eyes First Open (Kilometre Club Rework) (2022) [Imaginary North Transmission 003 - Original Track by Absence]
Eyes Closed Eyes (2022) [Daydream: Vox Verto - Intraset]
Cabin 8 / Sentimental (2022) [Ambient Guitar Chronicles - Imaginary North]
Amalthea (2022) [Space: Jupiter - Intraset]
Daydreamer National Park (2023) [Imaginary North Transmission 004]
Cape Columbia (2023) [Echoes In The Valley, Vol.7]
Shakespeare's Moons (2023) [Space: Mercury - Intraset]
Closed Space (2023) [Dive In: Chapter 5 - Mare Nostrum]
Light Years Away (Raphah Rework) (2023) [Imaginary North Transmission 005]
Tomorrow / Walt's Waltz (in 4/4) / Adult Recreational Hockey Participation Trophy (2023) [Today Until Tomorrow - Imaginary North]
Geography Major / Illusion d'optique (with Arbee) (2023) [Imaginary North Transmission 006)
foundry (2023) [a space to breathe and wander - slow echo]
Aqueous Antarctica (Kilometre Club Rework) (2024) [Imaginary North Transmission 007 - Original Track by Center of Attention]
Soaring/Souring (2024) [Crossfades - Imaginary North] (with Bailrigg)
The Starring Role In Undercover Mermaid (2024) [Other Rooms - Imaginary North]
In Real Life? (2024) [Imaginary North Transmission 008]
Spaces In Flux (2024) [Dive In: Chapter 7 - Mare Nostrum]
The Longest Time (2024) [The Longest Time - Imaginary North]
milk used to come from cows, you know (2024) [Odds & Ends - Odd Neighbour]
Weighter (2024) [Ambient V - Atlantea]
The Mountains Far Far Away (2024) [Imaginary North Transmission 009 - Imaginary North] (with Alysse Rich)
Other:
Bahrambient - Enchanted Forest Rework (2022) [Exoplanet]
shn shn - Taking Time Rework (2022) [taking time rework]
Fractals (with Retland) (2023) [Relativity - Valley View Records]
Bahrambient - Erosion Rework (2023) [Tectonics - Valley View Records]
Quiet Winter - Refresh (Rework) (2023) [Peppermint Tea - Imaginary North]
Condensation (with Retland) (2023) [Dream Theory - Ambient Soundscapes]
Tewksbury - Banda Mountain Rework (2023) [Banda Mountain Remixes - Hush Hush Records]
Ghost In The Loop - Echoes From Afar (2023) [Cold Space Symmetry - Mare Nostrum]
Arbee & Norvik - Footprints Rework (2023) [Prints - Imaginary North]
City of Dawn - Brew Haven Rework (2024) [Brew Haven - Imaginary North]
Marie - Remaining (2024) [Remaining Fragments: A Rework Album - Imaginary North]
Willebrant - Grove Rework (2024) [Grove Rework]
Sun Rain - Pages Rework (2024) [Pages Rework]
Arbee - Tangerine, suite (2024) [Coalescence - Imaginary North]
Le Code & KapTep - Photosynthesis (2024) [Urban Garden - Mare Nostrum]
E J R M - Horizons Rework (2024) [I Do, I See It In The Sky - Imaginary North]