Build The Cities

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Build The Cities

Single
Album

Release Information

Released by

Karma Fields

Album

Release Date

Duration

March 2, 2015

3:43

Featured Artists

Kerli

Production Information

Brand:

Release Genre

Uncaged

Electronic

Community Genre

Sub-genres

House

Electro House

BPM

Key

112

E minor

Catalog Number

MCS317

Streaming Services

Spotify

Sound Cloud

YouTube

Build The Cities is a song by Karma Fields, featuring vocals from Kerli, released on March 2, 2015 and featured on Monstercat 021 - Perspective, Monstercat - Best of House, Monstercat - Best of 2015 and Karma Fields' New Age | Dark Age LP.

A remix package of this song was released on May 27, 2015 and an extended vocal edit was released on March 2, 2016 as part of Karma Fields' New Age | Dark Age LP.

This song is no longer released with Monstercat due to Karma Fields wanting to distance himself from the label.

Background[]

The song's music video was first previewed live during a Monstercat Podcast as, per Billboard the day of the song's official release, "a clever bit of disruptive marketing". After the podcast appeared to fall victim to a cyber attack, viewers were shown a sneak peak of the "Build The Cities" video.^[1] A YouTube user, in the comments for the podcast YouTube upload that Thursday, described it as the following:

“	Basically, a console like thing appeared, inputting loads of weird commands. It then went to a thingy which gave a preview of "Build The Cities".	”
– "an pigeon"^[2]

The song and its music video were officially released via Monstercat's YouTube channel on March 2, 2015. Build The Cities (Reconstructions) followed on May 27, 2015.

On January 20, 2016, Karma Fields hinted on Twitter that the song would be the eighth track on New Age | Dark Age.^[3]

Lyrics[]

Build The Cities Lyrics

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Miles of fire

I'm losing ground

And in the flashes

My world comes crashing down

I'm left nowhere

No place to hide

Out in the open

Like ashes in the sky

I quit the illusion

I'm moving on

I let the flames light up the future

Making empires of sound

And she would chase what's coming after

You burnt the bridges

To build the cities

I let the flames light up the future

Making empires of sound

And she would chase what's coming after

You burnt the bridges

To build the cities

From: reddit

Trivia[]

The "Build The Cities" music video was created by visual artist Raven Kwok using custom Java systems and an Xbox Kinect. About the video, Kwok said: "Every time I run the system, it will produce a different visual outcome due to randomness of the initial parameters. So the music video itself is an organized yet unpredicted outcome."^[1]

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Medved, Matt (March 2, 2-15). "Exclusive Premiere: Monstercat Introduces New Artist Karma Fields Via Twitch Takeover". Billboard. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
↑ an pigeon (March 2015). "Who else watched this live on twitch and shat themselves?". YouTube. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
↑ Karma Fields (January 20, 2016). "Hint tweet". Twitter. @Karma_Fields. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[ v • t • e ] Karma Fields (Discography)

Songs
March 2, 2015	Build The Cities
September 21, 2015	Skyline
November 30, 2015	Stickup
February 17, 2016	Greatness
March 2, 2016	A Bright But Distant Future • Edge of the World • Faint Echoes • Fixed_ • For Me • Scandal • Skewed
October 28, 2016	Sweat

VIPs, Mixes, Acoustics, & Other
May 27, 2015	Build The Cities (Empire of Sound)
October 20, 2015	Skyline (Acoustic)
March 2, 2016	Build The Cities +
September 15, 2016	Build The Cities (Classical) • For You (Classical) • Scandal (Classical) • Skyline (Classical) • Stickup (Piano Deviation) (Classical)

Extended Plays
May 27, 2015	Build The Cities (Reconstructions)
November 30, 2015	Stickup EP

Long Plays
March 2, 2016	New Age \| Dark Age
September 15, 2016	New Age \| Dark Age (Deluxe Version)

Remixed Songs
April 30, 2015	Build The Cities (Project 46 Remix)
May 5, 2015	Build The Cities (Rootkit Remix)
May 12, 2015	Build The Cities (Grabbitz Remix)
May 27, 2015	Build The Cities (AC Slater Remix) • Build The Cities (Kastle Remix) • Build The Cities (Redial Remix)
November 30, 2015	Stickup (Modestep Remix)
October 28, 2016	Sweat (Bixel Boys Remix) • Sweat (Soulji Remix)

[ v • t • e ] Kerli (Discography)

Vocals
March 2, 2015	Build The Cities

Vocals (Extended Plays)
May 27, 2015	Build The Cities (Reconstructions)

Vocals (Remixes)
April 30, 2015	Build The Cities (Project 46 Remix)
May 5, 2015	Build The Cities (Rootkit Remix)
May 12, 2015	Build The Cities (Grabbitz Remix)
May 27, 2015	Build The Cities (AC Slater Remix) • Build The Cities (Empire of Sound) • Build The Cities (Kastle Remix) • Build The Cities (Redial Remix)
March 2, 2016	Build The Cities +

[ v • t • e ] New Age / Dark Age LP (Karma Fields)

Tracks
A Bright but Distant Future • Build the Cities • Build the Cities + • Edge of the World • Faint Echoes • Fixed_ • For Me • Greatness • Scandal • Skewed • Skyline • Stickup

[ v • t • e ] Monstercat 021 - Perspective (Tracklist)

Tracks

After Dark • Answers • Aura • Bring the Madness • Build The Cities • Champions (WRLD Remix) • Children of the Night • Dads In Space • The Divide • Far Away • Find That Someone • Flashbacks • Fugitive • Get Crazy • The Girl • Growing Up • I Can't • Inferno • Insight • Make a Move • Minty • Mountains • Pressure • Rattlesnake • See It All • See You • Stronger • Universe • War (F.O.O.L & Didrick Remix) • Yours Truly
Aspect Album Mix • Vantage Album Mix

[ v • t • e ] Monstercat - Best of House (Tracklist)

Tracks
Believe Her • Build the Cities • Concrete Jungle • Do You Don't You • Drift Away • The Fire • The Girl • Home • Interstellar • Invisible • Nevada • Signs • Space Plus One • Synchronize • Where I'll Be Waiting

[ v • t • e ] Monstercat - Best of 2015 (Tracklist)

Tracks

4U • Adventures • Bring the Madness • Build the Cities • Chrysalis • Crave • Dads In Space • Deeper Love • Divided • Dots • Emoji • Far Away • Final Boss • The Fire • Float Away • Get On Up • The Girl • Heist • High Tide • Home • I Can't • Insight • Inside • Legends • Little Too Close • Minty • Mountains • Need You • Pressure • Rattlesnake • Rebirth • Roses • Stronger • This Time • Time • Titans • Victory • Watching • We Are the Lights • We Won't Be Alone

[ v • t • e ] Alphabetical List of Electro House Songs (Genre)

A

Achilles • ACID HAUS • Act III • Addicted • Adventure In The Pixel World • Adventure Time • Aeron Is Coming (Mongewz Remix) • Aeron Is Coming (Silence 'O' Phobia Remix) • Airwaves • Alive • All On Me • Already Gone • Always Running (Justin OH Remix) • Ampersand • Another Day (Alternate Mix) • Apollo (Electro Mix) • Apollo (The Brig Remix) • Arcade • Astrocat • Atlantic • Atmo • Atrium • Aura • AUTOMATIC

B

B.T.W. (The Whistle) • Back To You • Bad Pitched • Bassline Kickin • Bassline Kickin (Astronaut Remix) • Better Than Expected • Birthday Cake • Blast from the Past • Bleed • Bliss • Bloodlip • Blow ExXxplode • Blue • Boogie • Boombox • Born For This (CITYWLKR Remix) • Boundaries • Bounty Hunter • Boy and the Beast • Breaking Down (Alex Drayling Remix) • Breathe (Bad Computer) • Breathe (Curbi) • Broken Bones • BUBBLES • Build The Cities • Build The Cities + • Build The Cities (Empire of Sound) • Buzz Kill

C

Calling Us • Carry On • Cave Me In • Champions (Laszlo Remix) • Chaos Storm • Charge • Chasing Clouds • Cheat Codes • Cheat Codes VIP • Checkpoint • Children of the Night • Clocks • Cloud Hop • Club Leclerc (Racers Mix) • Cold Blood & Ice Cream Cones • Collide (Astronaut & Barely Alive Remix) • Collide (Insan3Lik3 Remix) • Collide (Stiletto Remix) • Come & Go • Come With Me • Contra • COOKIES • Crave • Crossroad

D

Dads In Space • Dat Voices • Dead Man Walking • Deadline • Deck The Halls (Time To Die) • Delayed Friend Request • Descender (2015) • Destroy Me • Digital Friends • Dimensions • The Difference Between Us And The Aliens • Disarray • Disco Dancer • Disconnected • Double Vision • Downhearted (Chimeric Remix) • Dracarys • Dream Odyssey • Dreamin • Dreaming • Drive Away • Drone • THE DROP (Dyro Remix) • THE DROP (Stonebank Remix) • Dying Star (2013) • Dynamite • Dystopia 2077

E
Easter Egg (2014) • Eat Me • Eclipse • Eden • Edge of the World • Electric • Electrify • Enigma • The Entity • EPIC • Error Code • The Escape • Escape Artist • Escape Artist (Club Mix) • Evening Paris Highway • Excellent Choice • Exoskelephone • Eye of the Storm

F
Far Away • Feel Ur Luv • Feronia • FIGHT • Final Boss • The Fire • Fire Away • The First Attempt (Basil O'Glue Remix) • Fixed_ • Flamewar • Fly • FLY • Fly Me Home (G-Tek Remix) • Flying Nimbus • Follow You (Virtual Riot Remix) • The Follower • For Me • For This Moment (Fon.Leman Remix) • For You • Free • Frequency Fusion • FTW • Fugitive

G
Galactic Voyage • GALACTICAL • Garage17 • Godzilla Watch (The Madison Remix) • Good Feeling • Good For Me • Gravity (Laszlo) • Gravity (Stereotronique) • Green Storm • Grind

H

Harpoon • Have It All • Heartbeat • Heartbeat (Cash Cash Remix) • Heartbeat (PIXL Remix) • Heartbeat (Popeska Remix) • Heartbeat (Rogue Remix) • Heartbit • Heartbit (Tommie Sunshine & Usica Remix) • Heat Wave • Here We Go Go Go • Hero (Stonebank Remix) • Hidden Level • Hit the Ground • Home (Laszlo) • Hopeless • Hot Pursuit • HOT SHOT • House • How We Win • How We Win (JELO Remix) • Hysteria

I
Iceladen • Imaginary Friend (Quarrel Remix) • In A Box • Inferno • Inside • Insomnia (Niuby Remix) • Internet Boy • Internet Love; 2010 (Intermission) • Interstellar • It Came From Planet Earth • Itvara

J
JINGLE BELLS • JOURNEY • Jukebox Nightmares • Jurassic • Just Dance • Justify

K
Keep On Rocking • Knight • Knuckles and Broken Goggles

L
Land Of The Living • The Law • Let Go • Lies and Deceptions • Lies and Deceptions (Bad Computer Remix) • Life & Death • Lights • Lost Call • Lotus

M
Made It for Me • Melodymania • Melodymania (Vocal VIP) • Memory Bank • Messiah • Mirage (Jaytech Remix) • Money, Destiny • Moonlight Runners • MOSHI • Mothership • Move Back • Moving On • The Munsta • My Love (Part I)

N
Need You • Nerve • New Game • Next Big Thing • No Holding On • Northern Lights • Nova • Nurburgring

O
Old Skool (Alex Mind Remix) • Old Skool (Fractal Remix) • Old Skool (Nitro Fun Remix) • Omni • The One (Asdek Remix) • One For All, All For One • One Man Moon Band • One Way (Deep In Calm Remix) • Orbit • OSCar • The Other Day • Out of the Dark

P
Paradigm (Bad Computer) • Paradigm (Case & Point) • Paradise • Party Freaks • The Passing • Peacock • People Say • Perception (Simon Sheppard Remix) • PEW PEW • Piece Of Cake • Pinball • PIXEL • PLAY (INITIATE Remix) • PLAY (James Landino Remix) • Porkchop Express • POWER • Prism • Pump It! • Pussycat • Pyramid Of Lights (The Madison Remix)

Q
Quantum

R
RAD • Rain • Rain (DFlent Remix) • Rat Twist • Reactions • Redshift • Reindeer Everywhere • Remedy • Renegade • Renzokuken • Rescue Me • Resurrection of the Dagger • The Return • Rewind • Riddle • Right Here, Right Now • Roadburn • ROCK IT • ROCK IT VIP • Rocktronik

S

Sandstorm • Savage • Saws & Foxes • Searching For You • September Nights (Win and Woo Remix) • Serengeti (Noel Sanger Remix) • Sexy Beast • Showdown • Sidewinder • Silence • Silhouette (Feed Me Remix) • Sit like a Flamingo • Skewed • Skywards • Slide • Slip (Simon Sheppard Remix) • Smoke • So Far Away • So Lost • Soda • Solarpunk • Somebody With You • Something Out There • Somewhere New • Starlight (Tut Tut Child Remix) • Starstruck (Solarity Remix) • Start Shit • Step Up • STEREO • Stickup • Stock & Pull • Stockholm • Stride (Maori Games Remix) • Strings Theory (Marsh Remix) • Subside • Sugar Rush • Sunrise (Solarity Remix) • Supernova • Surge • Surrounded By Fields (Intro) • Swamp Thing • Sweet

T

Take Me Higher • Taking Over • Taking Over (Synchronice Remix) • Talking Of Axes • Tanpopo • The Taste • Tekkadon (G-Tek Remix) • Tension • Terminal 6 • TEVA833 • This Feeling • This Is You (G-Tek Remix) • This Time • Throne • Through the Dark • Thundergun (BASSEX Remix) • Time Goes By • Time Is By Your Side (Nigel Good Remix) • Timewarp • Tombstone • Tonight (TwoThirds) • Tonight (Au5 & I.Y.F.F.E Remix) • Top of the World • TROUBLEMAKER • Truth • Truth and Malice • TURBO • Turn Around

U
U & Me (Vincent Remix) • Ultraviolet • Undefined • Under Pressure • Underground Raver • United (RedMoon Remix) • Uplift

V
Vexed • Video Boy • Voidwalkers

W

Waking Dreams (Soulero Remix) • Walking on the Moon • Walking on the Moon (Bad Computer Remix) • Walls (Nigel Good Remix) • War • War (F.O.O.L & Didrick Remix) • Warmer • Warmest Day (Nigel Good Remix) • Warp Zone • Wastin Time • The Way We Were • We Are One (Droptek Remix) • We Do • What Are You Waiting For • What Is Love? (Project 46 Remix) • What You Waiting For • What's Going Down • Where The Lights Fall (Marsh Remix) • Where The Lights Fall (Meeke Remix) • White Birds (Tom Fall Remix) • The World • World Wide Web

Y
Your Heart • Your Spell

Z
Zazim Beyhad (We Move Together) • ZENITH

Numbers & Symbols
2U • 4D

[ v • t • e ] Removed Releases

Singles and songs
A	A Bright But Distant Future • A Dream • Addicted • Air (Hellberg's Back to Summer Mix) • Alliance • As You Fall (Mango Remix) • Astronaut • Aviary (Kobana Remix)
B	Back and Forth • Bad Boy • Be Free • Because We Are • Bilbao • Beatport (Arthur Deep Remix) • Bittersweet Silence • Blood Money • Blossom • Borneo • Breathe In Breathe Out • Build the Cities • Build the Cities + • Burning
C	Can You Feel This? (Mango Remix) • Carried By The Wind • Changes • Chasing Cars (Mango Remix) • Coffins
D	Destination United Kingdom (Intro Mix) • Dichotomy • Doppelgänger
E	Emergency (Instrumental) • Emergency (Radio Edit) • Ethereal • Europeland • Everchanging
F	Famous • Flight • Follow Me • Frame of Mind
G	Get Up • Gone • Guardian • Guide Me Home
H	Harmony • Hawkling Street • Heartbeat Heartbeat (Cash Cash Remix) • Heartbeat (DMNDZ Remix) • Heartbeat (PIXL Remix) • Heartbeat (Popeska Remix) • Heartbeat (Rameses B Remix) • Heartbeat (Rogue Remix) • Heartbeat (Xristo Remix) • Here I Am • House
I	I Remember • I See U • In A Box • In Motion (Ambient Mix) • Insight
J	Jurassic • Just One Second (Orion & J.Shore Remix)
K	Kid's Play • Killin' It
L	L'esprit Noir (The Spirit of Darkness)
M	Massive (Orion & J.Shore Remix) • Meadows • Men & Machines • My Decision • My Friend • My Land • My Own Space • Mysterious Island
N	Nairobi • Night Call • No Game to Play (Arthur Deep Remix) • No Looking Back • Nobody Wants to Die • Nowhere Near (Mango Remix) • Nueva York (Arthur Deep Remix)
O	The Only Ones • Osennee
P	Pegasus • Permutate • Planet • Play Your Part • Pressure Point (Lessov Remix) • Pressure Point (Marsh Deep Remix) • Pressure Point (Marsh Prog Remix) • Prologue • Purple Silence (Solus Town Remix)
R	Resistance • The Road Ahead
S	Saiko • The Schism • Sculpted • Similarity • Sleeping Now • Sleeping Now (Rodrigo Deem & Vitodito Remix) • Smiling At You • Somebody Hold Me (Mango Remix) • The Sound • Strings Theory (Marsh Remix) • Strings Theory (Original 'Balearic' Mix) • Surface • Sweet Memories (Arthur Deep Remix V.1) • Synergy
T	Take Me Home • Talent Goes By • Temperamental (Mango Remix) • Temple • These Are the Days (Mango Remix) • This Is Not the End • Till It's Over • Time • Touch the Sky (Mango Remix) • Trainer Battle • Tribe 303 • Truth • Truth (Anna Yvette Remix) • Truth (Candyland Remix) • Truth (Dabin Remix) • Truth (Filtercrush Remix) • Truth (The Dirty Tees Remix) • Truth (xKore Remix) • Twice a Sky
U	Until The End
V	Varadero • Varadero (Fon.Leman Remix) • Varadero (Marsh Remix) • Vertical Forest • Voice of Reason
W	Waiting For The Mail Man • Waiting For The Mail Man (Jayeson Andel Remix) • Wanchu Back • Wanderer • Want Me Back • Waterfall • We're Gonna Be Ok (Mango Remix) • What I've Waited For • Where Is the One • Where The Lights Fall (Marsh Remix) • Where The Lights Fall (Meeke Remix) • Wondering Why
Y	You & I • You Can Do • You Clearly Let It Show • You Say • You'll Be Fine (Marsh) • Young and Free
Numbers & Symbols	4U (Aero Chord) • 4U (Julius Dreisig Remix) • The 90s

Extended Plays
C	Carried By The Wind EP
E	Emergency EP • Ethereal / Sleeping Now / Waiting For The Mail Man EP
H	Heartbeat (The Remixes) • Here & Now EP
L	Love & Hate EP
P	Pressure Point (Remixes)
S	Sleeping Now / Waiting For The Mail Man (Remixes) • Smashing Newbs EP • The Sound EP • Strings Theory EP
T	The Sound EP • Truth (The Remixes)
W	Where Is the One EP
Y	You & I / Want Me Back / Temple EP

Long Plays
N	New Age / Dark Age LP
T	Two Fold Pt. 1 LP

Compilations
A	Arrival 01: Destination United Kingdom
D	Da Funk Pres. Deep Sessions 01 • Da Funk Pres. Deep Sessions 02 • Da Funk Pres. Deep Sessions 03 • David Broaders Pres. Best of Progressive House 2016, Vol. 05 • Dezza Pres. Best of Progressive House 2016, Vol. 04
E	eleven.five Pres. Best of Progressive House 2016, Vol. 02
F	Forerunners Pres. Best of Deep House 2016, Vol. 01
H	Holiday Giveaway 2014
M	Mike Koglin & MoodFreak (Sudhaus) Pres. Best of Progressive House 2016, Vol. 03
R	Retrospective
S	Shawn Mitiska Pres. Best of Trance & Progressive House 2015, Vol. 01 • Silk Music Pres. Marsh 01 • Silk Royal Showcase 03 :: Royal Selections • Silk Textures 02 • Silk Textures 03 • Silk Textures 04 • Silk Textures 05
T	Terry Da Libra Pres. Best of Trance 2016, Vol. 01 • Tom Fall Pres. Best of Trance 2016, Vol. 02
U	The Unreleased
V	Vintage & Morelli Pres. Best of Trance & Progressive House 2015, Vol. 02 • Volant Pres. Best of Progressive House 2016, Vol. 01

Other Removed Releases
C	Colours & Distractions Minimix • Contact (Flyant Remix)
E	Eternal Night
H	Hardstyle Podcast Preview
I	Inspire • It's What We Are
L	Lasers Set To Kill
M	Monstercat Orchestral Suite
N	Nights In Bangalore
S	Sanctuary (Ephixa Remix)
T	Territory (Mike EFEX Remix) • Through The Darkness (Intro Mix)
W	What Is Love? (Project 46 Remix) • Wobble (SNEEK Remix) • Wobble (Topi Remix)
Y	Yo! (The Killabits Remix)

[billboard-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Medved, Matt (March 2, 2-15). "Exclusive Premiere: Monstercat Introduces New Artist Karma Fields Via Twitch Takeover". Billboard. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[2] (March 2015). "Who else watched this live on twitch and shat themselves?". YouTube. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[3] Karma Fields (January 20, 2016). "Hint tweet". Twitter. @Karma_Fields. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

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