Artist: Pete Namlook
Genre(s):
Ambient
Electronic
Dance
New Age
Other
Discography:
Air V - Jeux Dangereux
Year: 2006
Tracks: 6
Music For Urban Meditation
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Air 4 - Elle A Du Shell
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
New Organic Life III
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Ambient Cookbook II CD4
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Ambient Cookbook II CD3
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Ambient Cookbook II CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Ambient Cookbook II CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Air Vol.2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Silence IV
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Silence III
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
License to Chill
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Shades Of Orion
Year: 1996
Tracks: 3
Atom
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Air III - Secret Heritage
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
The Definitive Ambient Collection
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Sequential
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Air I - You
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Octopus 3
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
New Composers - Russian Spring
Year:
Tracks: 13
Dr. Atmo Silence III
Year:
Tracks: 7
Dr Atmo Silence II
Year:
Tracks: 4
If well-nigh artists in contemporary electronica ar wish islands unto themselves, turning prohibited tracks in congener namelessness, Pete "Namlook" Kuhlmann is a whole continent. A dizzyingly fertile composer who's steadily reinforced up an entire diligence around his Frankfurt-based Fax label, Namlook's name is inextricably linked with the post-rave revitalization of ambient music, and many of his solo and collaborative recordings with the likes of Mixmaster Morris, Tetsu Inoue, Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Richie Hawtin, Geir Jenssen, Dr. Atmo, Burhan Ocal, Atom Heart, Jonah Sharp, Charles Uzzell-Edwards, and David Moufang, among many others, number among the to the highest degree lauded and influential in new ambient. Although Namlook got his start cathartic quasi-new age (as Romantic Warrior) and hard trance (as Sequential, 4Voice, Escape, Deltraxx, and a host of others), he and his mark have become synonymous with new ambient since Fax began exclusively cathartic the style shortly after the label formed in 1992. Fax helped give supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to ambient's new schooling by allowing the artists to freely experiment piece making a living from their medicine. (Fax's label structure confers the majority of its lucre to its artists.) Countless Fax releases, particularly those dating from 1993 and 1994, ar considered classics of contemporaneous electronic ambient, and while the label has suffered a sure grade of repetition in recent old age, Fax remains one of the to the highest degree of import and influential German electronic music labels. Namlook has been criticized for adopting a quality-over-quantity approach shot -- his label's discharge schedule was up to a CD per calendar week for more than a year, and currently produces 24 per class, many of them Namlook's have -- merely he's succeeded in attracting a devoted, sharp-set following that allows him and his label to continue releasing raw medicine. Fax has released more than than 250 full-length CDs, scores of 12-inches, and several compilations -- including the sprawling 4-CD Ambient Cookbook, which cadaver the c. H. Best founding to the label -- and has expanded to included quaternity Fax-related labels and deuce subordinate labels (Instead Interesting and Headphone, play by Atom Heart and Higher Intelligence Agency's Bobby Bird, respectively). Fax releases hold been accredited for reissue by R&S, Music Man, Rising High, Instinct and Injection. With distributors on trey continents and a little universe of Web sites devoted to reviewing, trading, and collecting Fax titles, the label and its owner sustain long since passed the stage of phenomenon and crossed o'er to institution.
Musically, Namlook draws most recognizably on the synthscapes of artists such as Klaus Schulze and Hans Jochim Roedelius, comb the drone electronics of those artists with, depending on the project or partner, ethnical instrumentation (tabla, tambouri, oud), environmental samples (rainwater, voices, arriving and departing trains, wildlife), sweeping electronic treatments (the bubbly undercurrents of Dreamfish or the drifting synthetic landscapes of 2350 Broadway), and minimal acoustic and electronic rhythms (jungle, electro, techno, and trance). His collaborations tend to surpass his solo recordings, although a few of his solo deeds ar among Fax's finest. Though hard to bump, the 2 volumes of The Definitive Ambient Collection offer a good founding to Namlook's early work. Subsequent compilations of more recent material have appeared at middling regular intervals; due to the extensive diversity of styles chased by various projects, compilations may be the best blank space to bulge.
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