R.I.P Peter Kuhlmann AKA Pete Namlook

I learnt today of the very sad news that Pete Namlook had died on November 8th 2012.  I'd firstly like to send all of my best wishes to Pete's immediate family.  Once again we have lost a visionary musician and a true gentleman far too soon. Lastly to you Peter, thank you.  Thank you for the endless great music but also for all your kindness & help.  Your memory and music will live on.

New from FAX - AW & PS

Now playing - Namlook & Peter Pochir Possible Gardens

Pete Namlook + Material Object - Elektronik II

Now playing - Namlook XXVII "Music for Urban Meditation IV" PK 08/200

   Hoover music!

Now playing: The Ambient Gardener - Summer PKPWPS 8

"The Ambient Gardener · Summer"

(Pete Namlook & Various Artists)

This is the second part in a four-part compilation series to give you a deeper insight into the philosophy behind FAX and its related labels, and to look back on what has happened over the past 20 years. After planting the seed in spring, it is great to watch the plants grow during summer. They need watering, weeding and care. Also, you plant the seeds for the winter and next year's harvest. If you do everything right there may be a good harvest in sight. 

Enjoy part two of the prolific label that is one of a kind, releasing an abundance of high quality music which was never watered down by commercial interests--these are plants of true organic growth and purity of spirit. DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
Pulsation · Pulsar / From Within · A Million Miles to Earth / Escape · The Futurescape
Air · Trip 2 / Namlook · Seasons Greetings · Summer /Tetsu inoue · Holy Dance
The Dark Side of the Moog · A Saucerful of Secrets / Air · Trip 5 / Outland · Bella Prime
Jet Chamber · Quite My Chords / 4Voice · Cave of Ancient Dreams

Music 'plants' of true organic growth and purity of spirit

Jet Chamber - Quite My Chords - still the best track on this compilation!

New from FAX...Abstract Projection awakes

New CD from Pete Namlook

"Namlook · Material Object - Elektronik"
(Pete Namlook & Material Object)

A new project on Fax featuring Pete Namlook and the relative newcomer Material Object. With only a handfull of 12"s under his sleeve, Material Object's production history is quite short, but his productions came to the attention of Pete through other channels and when Pete was visiting Berlin this summer, the two met and Pete said those 2 magic words 'Lets Jam' Using the limited resouces of Material Object's 'Red Room' Studio, the two artists proceeded to jam out, in one uninterrupted session, a mix of Pete Namlook's classic Krautrock influenced ambient analog mastery combined with Material Object's take on modern digital tech / electronica.

The resulting album is a great blend of moody ambient & beat oriented electronica with a very live & improvised feel while maintaining the precision of Pete Namlook's productions.

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
CD tracks: The Fourth Dimension (Part I - VI)

The first stage in a new chapter on FAX

Now playing...Lorenzo Montana - Serpe PS 08/121

Now playing...Anthony Rother - The Machine Room PS 08/120

Another solid release from Anthony, with at least 3 outstanding tracks.

FAX clearout on eBay

Gentlemen!

I'm having a FAX clearout...all of the following will be on eBay later today, priced at 99p each. Bar Elektro everything is in totally Mint condition.


Move D & Namlook VII Home Shopping PK 08/164
Move D & Namlook IX Wagons Lits Pk 08/171
Namlook & Robert Gorl Elektro PK 08/109 (crinkled back cover)
Coeur Atmoique S/T PS 08/27
Robert Musso Transonic aw 013
SOL (featuring Antonia Langsdorf) Stardust PS 08/99
Namlook & Richie Hawtin From Within 3 AW 039
Namlook XI PK 08/113
Move D & Namlook Koolfang III Be Aware PK 08/169
Namlook Syn (Double CD) PK 08/95
Namlook & Steve Stoll Hemisphere AW 021

CLICK HERE

Now playing..Sad World 3 PS 08/82

Cheers for reminding me about the series Christian. Yep track 2 'Shirin' is still brilliant.

Now playing...Move D & Pete Namlook - XIX Dawning of a New Decade PK 08/189

I'm revisting this one ;)

Now Playing...Namlook & Montana - Labyrinth 2 PW53

Labyrinth 2 on iTunes

Click here

Currently playing...

Now playing...Namlook · Montanà - Labyrinth

1. Nice atmospheric stuff with a pulse, but who knows, a bit too long perhaps? It promises to take off at any minute, but never does. I liked the TD Logos-like bass though. [update]: it's growing on me :)

2. Not bad

3. Much better, with a wonderful sequencer line at the start, but then just meanders a bit.

New from Pete

"Namlook · Montanà - Labyrinth"
(Pete Namlook & Lorenzo Montanà)

The Labyrinth represents the archetypal fear of the unconscious, an unknown place to discover, the secret way the mind enters into a desolate landscape, the serpentine path towards wholeness and authenticity. The first step is to reach the center, the core of our being and this is only half the journey. One must then find a way out of the labyrinth and back to the outer world. But there are real dangers lying in the labyrinth that can block you or cause you to lose your way in this underworld... such places reflect back to us that which dwells in the deepest, darkest recesses of our own psyche. In this sense the first collaboration of P.N. with Lorenzo Montanà starts on a very high level that connects the FAX 90s with the sounds of today. Rhythms and sequences, epic melodies and intense, spheric sounds from a new FAX release that has all the ingredients to soon become a classic.

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
Labyrinth - (Path I - VIII) 65.30 min

Rhythms and sequences, epic melodies and intense, spheric sounds...

Free download from Pete Namlook & Move D

From Stranger III

Stranger Live in Bucharest Bonus

PK 08/197 Move D · Namlook - Stranger III
AW 063 Solitaire

Both of these discs will be released on October 18th.

Now playing...

Now playing...Move D & Pete Namlook XVII- There PK 08/184

Now playing...Namlook/Schulze/Laswell - The Dark Side of the Moog VII PK 09/143

One of the best of the series (along with parts V and VI). I don't rate the early ones at all, way too much Schulzian noodling.

Now playing...Atom Heart & Pete Namlook- Jet Chamber III PK 08/125

Rub Out 10.47: 6/10
Dub In 21.19
Ultra Koran 3.10
Quite My Chords 24.19
Beel 2.44

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK/ATOM HEART: Jet Chamber 3

Starts in unexpected fashion with a 10 min track that mixes '90's drum & bass with a relaxed hint of acid jazz and some carefully used melodic lines resulting in a track that is both busy and ambient at the same time, mixing the rough edges of the rhythmic layers with the smooth flow of the top lead lines to produce a completely unique soundscape that is hypnotic yet appears constantly to be contradicting itself. Most odd. The same effect applies to the 21 min track 2 where a combination of rhythm layers based on a combination of the aforementioned style plus ambient dub mix with a set of top layers ranging from expansive synth effects through to one of the most gorgeous flowing synth melody lines heard earlier on in the piece. As it goes on the ambient dub part tends to take the dominant role and the track is all the better for it so that by the 12 min point you've got a quite slow but multi-layered and powerful slice of music driving on to the 15 min point where the rhythms subside altogether and a glorious set of cosmic synthesis heard before the rhythms kick back in and a set of synth lead lines enters, that distant flowing melody returns and it heads on to the end in fine melodic/rhythmic fashion. A brief 3 mins of buzzing and space synths constitutes track 3 while the 24 min track 4 has a rhythmic foundation based in drum & bass only not as frantic, especially as the layers are mellowed out as the track progresses, above which an ever changing and developing set of synth melodies and effects in very much a sort of laidback acid jazz area, gradually unfold, all making for another mix of opposites in rhythmic and melodic terms, yet one which, works to excellent effect, with the predominant mood and pace veering more to the lazy than the overly busy on what is a great track, especially for those who like the Koolfang series. Finally the CD ends with just under 3 mins of spacey stuff and it's gone. For its amalgamation of styles, this has to be seen as a highly inventive and ultimately rewarding release.

Now playing...The Flashbulb-Arboreal

Legally download it here & support the artist

A million times better than all that sad retro/Berlin Schule crap currently hidding under the banner of 'music'. Ben and a handful of other artists are the future of Electronic Music ;)

Now playing...Dr Atmo & Oliver Lieb-Music to Films PS 08/40

Alright, nothing more

Andy G said:

DR ATMO/OLIVER LIEB:

Music To Films
Supposedly inspired by the Phillip Glass film you can't spell, this is a semi-attempt to recreate that style in a more modern setting. Track one starts slowly, gradually drifting and building before a typical Glass-style repetitive organ-synth passage hits you in the face around the 9 min mark, goes on for several minutes before drifting back to the semi-conscious state for the finale. Track 2 goes for the rhythmic approach with vast layers of cosmic synth over which organ-bass and synth-percussive rhythms hypnotise you. Track 3 starts with an even grander synth soundscape that soars and flows for several minutes before it is joined by a powerful drum sequence which storms its way through a couple of minutes before stopping abruptly and allowing the symphonic synth layers to flow unstoppably to the end. The 23 min track 5 moves into real Glass territory, twisting and turning and changing, layering, building and subtracting all the time but totally rhythmic and very hypnotic. Finally, it's back to powerful T.Dream-influenced synths/sequencer territory for the 14 min track 6.

Now playing...HIA & Namlook-S.H.A.D.O AW 043

Now playing...Move D · Namlook XXII - Stranger II PK 08/196

1. Bell-like synth tones

2. Starts with a filtered sequence panned hard right, with a ticking white noise beat far left…this then morphs into a mirror image of the first sequence. Sounds like something I would have come up with in 1981 with my first synth, but in a good way. Vocal nuttiness is added with everything dripping in reverb, things fade in and out…and that’s about it.

3. French vocals fade into a child-like melody, layered over panned metallic tones. No rhythm as such, but the bells create a pulse…and then things just fade into a huge eerie void, with the odd twitter and filtered…leading into…

4. More twittering and filtering again over a vacuum and at the 1.30 min mark a simple echoing synth is added, meandering; half random (think Tangerine Dream plucking a few notes during a coffee break over their Keep soundtrack whilst it's being recorded down a very l-o-n-g corridor). A click tiptoes in. A sequence builds (again with a slightly bell-like overtone) layered over a faint drum beat. My foot starts to tap. Noise modulations sweep in and thenout…the sequence repeats and repeats with a few synth notes to close. An interesting variation of familiar Move D and Namlook themes.

5. A faint bass line loops and eventually a xylophone jumps in. Left-Right noise bursts stab and through time are shaped into a beat of sorts. I’m bored. At the 9.00 minute mark things become more strident slightly breaking the ‘stuck record’- like sequence. The sequence has become a mind worm and my brain needs variation. The loop continues, total synth-torture…on and on, a musical stress position, Torquemada with a VCF. ‘Ok I’ll talk, but please make it stop”!!!! .. .it does.

6. Eventually the synth starts to fade, as I sigh in relief. Vintage drum machine hits slip in, build a rhythm and then beat it (sorry I couldn’t resist that one). Not bad

Overall? It’ll probably be one of the more dustier CDs on my shelf. Without criticising what Pete & David have done, I’ve got to say that every so often there’s a release on FAX that I don’t like…and ladies and gentlemen this just might be it. Will I continue to buy their albums? of course!

Top track: No. 4
Worst track: No. 5
Out of ten: 6/10

Now playing...Move D · Namlook XXI - Stranger I PK 08/195

Track one...superb!

"Zenith" (Tetsu Inoue & Carlos Vivanco)

This is one of the best examples of timeless music on FAX. Environmental ambience with slow intense beats and liquid melodies including a lot of "Berliner Schule" sequencing is the best way to describe this rich music.

The only exception to this is the track "Aura" that sends you into slow meandering dreamscapes with its Tetsu-typical pure, positive, floating sound of ambience.

CD tracks:
Sacred Mirror / Electro Dreams / Plexus Solaris / Aura

An Ambient / Chill-Out Classic

"Move D · Namlook XXII - Stranger II" (Pete Namlook & David Moufang)

Recorded live in Heidelberg, this time Dave and Pete explore the world of the unknown. "Stranger II" is the continuation of a Trilogy. The album opens with the space sci-fi ambience of "The Encounter - Part I", which unfolds until analog sequencing kicks in. Spheric and mystic soundscapes unfold with some slow-motion melodies which lead into a beat-oriented part. Prominent, deep bass accompanies the hypnotic beat which creates the basis of layers of deep, pleasant and "Stranger" sounds and sequences.

This album is again a step forward in sound and composition of an outstanding collaboration between two masterminds of new electronic music and grows on you with each listening session.

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
The Encounter (Part I - VI) 53.34min

Stage 22 of an outstanding collaboration in new electronic music

Coming up...new releases for June

PK 08/196 Move D · Namlook XXII - Stranger II
AW 061 Zenith

Now playing...Move D · Namlook XXI - Stranger I PK 08/195

First spin (Note that the scores are only an initial reaction):

Track one 7/10...Apart from the left-right synth pulse it's pretty familar stuff from Pete and David (watery phased slightly Schulze-like melodies, building & assending VERY slowly, meets the usual vocal gymnastics). The tempo builds and a beat is felt, with some violin interjections and then at the 13 minute mark things get a bit funky with Move D's (?) usual filter Simulacrum-synth beats adding rhythmic and tonal variations & interest. Modern Lounge electro piano meets 80's synth bass lines with a few modern twists and turns.

Track two 5/10...a bit dull, less obvious, more complex? and certainly less melodic.

Both need more plays

Second spin:

Track 1: I'm now liking it much more, things are more familiar and it's less a 'stranger' (especially the last 20 minutes): 8.5/10 :)

Track 2: I don't think 'Sorry, We are Hippies' is my cup of tea, it's a bit 'unfocused' for my tastes (all IMHO obviously). The central 'theme' isn't strong enough or interesting enough to hold my attention.

SO...overall, yet another solid release from Pete and Move D. Recommended? yes...purely for track 1. Hopefully this album will appear on itunes soon and fans can make their own minds up

10th+ Spin:

Track one: Even better, but strangely enough (no pun intended) it's now the first half of the track that now draws my attention, haunting with it's subtle and yet heartbreaking emotion.

New Re-release: Namlook & Inoue - 62 Eulengasse AW 059

Available from Pete 'Now'

"62 Eulengasse"
(Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue)

One more brilliant collaboration between Tetsu Inoue and Pete Namlook. This time improvised live in studio at 62 Eulengasse. Two deep chill-out-tracks keep hold of your ear for 1 hour and 13.48 minutes.

CD tracks:
Time-Cage 51.48 min
xxxx 22.00 min

Environmental ambient without beats

New Release: Move D & Namlook XXI Stranger I PK 08/195

Available from Pete 'now'!

"Move D · Namlook XXI - Stranger I"
(Pete Namlook & David Moufang)

Recorded live in Heidelberg, this time Dave and Pete explore the world of the unknown. "Stranger I" is the start of a Trilogy. The album begins with "Stranger" Spheric soundscapes composed of slowly meandering chords, and then subtle spoken words about the deep concept of a futuristic society lead slowly into a beat-oriented part. A strong and deep bassline accompanies the hypnotic beat which creates the basis of layers of deep, pleasent and "Stranger" sounds.
The name "Sorry, We Are Hippies" transports the psychedelic and yet funky spirit of this track that features sounds of the futuristic ambience and the question of life never ending.

This album is again a step forward in sound and musical idea of an outstanding collaboration between two masterminds of new electronic music and grows on you with each listening session.

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
Stranger 25.33 min
Sorry, We Are Hippies 30.22 min

Stage 21 of an outstanding collaboration in new electronic music

Now playing...Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation 3 PW 33

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK/BILL LASWELL: Psychonavigation 3

With 3 tracks clocking in at over 12 mins and 4 tracks from 1 to nearly 5 mins, this is certainle the best one yet. The opening 15 min opus is as magnificent a slice of cosmic synth music as you'll find anywhere, with the rich tones and warm sonic drifts from the various layers which flow through the composition in an almost Schulzian manner, with seeping string sounds and a gorgeous atmosphere, consistently good throughout its length. Track 2 at 4 mins is equally spacey but more melodic in the ambient sense. Track 3, at 16 mins, starts with a gently sequenced synth rhythm and surrounding space synths, sounding like some T.Dream outtake, and this continues for 5 mins whereupon a perc layer is added and the track heads 'out there' for a couple of mins, before the rhythms are dispensed, a new chorus of synths and distant voice samples appear, and then the previous pattern comes back and takes you on to the end of the track. The near 13 min track 4 is ethereal ambient dub with a magical drum rhythm, some incredible electric bass rhythm currents and a soaring set of synth leads above the dynamic rhythm base, for the first half of the track, followed by 3 mins of pure space synths, and finishing with a rhythmic finale similar to the first half only more powerful. Track 5 is just under 3 mins of galaxian cosmic synths while track 6 features a subdued but solid sequencer rhythm above which soaring synths and voice samples fly and drift. Finally, the CD ends on one minute of.......silence.

Now playing...Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 62 Eulengasse PW 21

1. Time - Cage 51.48
2. xxxx 22.00
Frankfurt 1995

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK/TETSU INOUE: 62 Eulengasse

There's space music and there's space music with class, warmth and vast depths of music to discover. For this release, the duo have composed a vast universe of shimmering, flowing, drifting layers of synths and electronics, over 2 long tracks (51 mins and 22 mins) to create some magical, spellbinding cosmic music.

Re-Issued: May, 2010

New from FAX: available from May 3rd, 2010

PK 08/195 Move D · Namlook XXI - Stranger I (part one of a trilogy!)
AW 059 62 Eulengasse

NB: You can order these directly from Pete from the middle of next week

Now playing...Move D & Pete Namlook XX Taygete PK 08/191

Get's better the more times you play it...highly recommended

Now playing...Pete Namlook-Air RSN CD10

Rising High 1993 Version



Air 'Collection' MP3 disc

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK: Air

Rhythm-less ambient synths that drift, flow, soar into deep space, eventually changing into multi-layered rhythms with melodies and a hint of power creating a gloriously constructed 60 mins of music.

News from FAX 2

"AIR" (remastered physical release)
(Pete Namlook)

After having released the first Ambient-CD "Silence" on FAX, Pete Namlook created this CD as his first Solo-work. With this work he created an innovation that combined Jazz with Ambient and Electronic Space Music. This music is far more moving than Easy Listening with little melodies. It is the deep and moving impressionistic musical soundtrack to the search of two people for one another..It deals with the oldest theme since mankind has existed -LOVE-. By the time of its first -limited- release there was quite a buzz in the press...here some examples:

"...there is more poetry here than most ham-fisted lyricists could muster out of three days' confinement with a Thesaurus..." Select (UK)
"... rarely has ambient music been able to convey such feelings..." Mixmag (UK)
"... excellent" Trip Magazine (USA)
"... This makes you feel the wind, smell the flowers, see far away places, dream dreams and drift into subconsciousness..." Under One Sky (USA)
"... This LP is an ambient masterpiece ... that dreags you into its painted textures, and Aural Sculptures" Generator (UK)

CD tracks:
You (Part I - IX) 60.00

Rarely has music been able to convey such feelings

News from FAX

"Krystian Shek - Israfil"
(Krystian Shek)

Israfil (known as the angel of the trumpet in Islam and as the archangel Raphael to the Western World), is an album of bipolar music, dark, yet colourful, oscillating between joy of living and deep melancholy. Shek`s 3rd Album on Fax lives from the thoughts and conscious differences between earth and space. The music springs forth lovely and deep, while radiating the vibe of the hot summer as well as the cold winter, and can really get a crowd moving. The flow of harmonic and melodic structure is felt first, then heard, whether in our living room of your favourite night club.

CD tracks:
Baking Eggs On Loro`s Island 2.19 / Israfil (Where the Blood Forever Rains) 5.09 Quan 5.38 / Champagne Bubble Bath 6.05 / Love, Liptease & 808 6.34 Israfil (Where the Sun Forever Shines) 4.00 / Black Princess 3.25 Collect Dust 6.26 / A Place Where Stars Are Born 5.57 Black Darjeeling 5.17 / Traumglück 2.08

Krystian Shek at his best in Chill-Out and Techno

Now playing...Move D & Pete Namlook-Exploring The Psychedelic Landscape PK 08/121

Here's one I haven't played in ages.

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK/DAVID MOUFANG (MOVE D): Exploring The Psychedelic Landscape

The first 2 11 and 17 minute tracks revolve around layers of repeated, cyclical, hypnotic rhythms and undercurrents, all very atmospheric and multi-layered stuff, over which a sparse collectoion of clipped refrains and effects soar and float in the foreground, with layers peeling away and returning in slightly altered fashion- all very mesmerising. Track 3 continues this theme, only virtually on nothing but percussion and drums for the first 5 minutes, with a light electric piano refrain and various synthetic whooshes going on as well. Atmospheric, eerie, eventually mutating into a positively stark pattern with the repeated drum/perc rhythm layers and this pattern continues to the end of the 16 min track. Track 4 is another one with a light percussive rhythmic backdrop, over which an ocean of stark, ethereal synths ebbs and flows, eventually toughening the sound to mid-pace as a foreground synth line drones and phases all over the stuttering rhythm layers. At only 6 mins you wish this could have lasted a lot longer. Finally, track 5, at 13+ mins, is the most relaxed piece on the album, yet stil with a slightly disconcerting set of synth layers, chopped refrains, as light electronic drums stride along in cyclical fashion, all hypnotic and trance inducing. Overall, quite strange, totally unclassifiable and rather good.

Now playing...Move D & Pete Namlook II-A Day in The Live! PK 08/127

Again!

Now playing...Pete Namlook & Karl Berger-Polytime PK 08/140

Now playing...Robert Musso-Transonic "Downstream Illusion" aw 013

Better than I remembered it, although Dub isn't a favourite of mine.

Andy G said:

ROBERT MUSSO: Transonic-Downstream Illusion (AW Reissue)

The combination of drums, percussion and multi-layered synths on track one reminded me of Can's more melodic moments (minus guitar) ending with typical Tim Blake style synth swirls and spirals. Can? Tim Blake? Could this superb track be a one-off or a portent of what is to follow. Luckily, the latter, as a magnificent set of tracks proceed with shuffling and insistent drums/perc rhythms overlaid with languid synth melodies and spacey bits. It's one of those CD's that you have to play right through to the end. The most astounding thing about this music is the way it has fused but not borrowed older styles with the rhythmic ambient '90's sounds. An excellent CD.

New releases for Feb

Many thanks to Matt for the following info:

Releases start 1st of Feb with:
AW 01 Air Remastered
PW 08/119 Krystian Shek - Israfil
RI 066 Atom™ - Music is better than Pussy

Now playing...Move D & Namlook V-Wired PK 08/158

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK & MOVE D: Wired

The opening 27 minute track starts quietly enough, but then miraculously goes on virtually to reinvent the feel, pace, rhythmic quality, and even to a degree, the sound of Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans Europe Express’, with train-like rhythms and all manner of synth overlays in a fuller-sounding, more hypnotic epic of a track, one of Namlook’s finest to date. If this wasn’t enough to justify the album’s purchase (it is), elsewhere, it’s one musical triumph after another as tracks, reliant on smooth electronic percussive rhythms and sky-stretching layers of atmosphere, all hold your attention for the duration, on one of the finest down-tempo, chill-out albums on the label for a while.

MY TOP TEN + 1 2009:

1. Kettel-Myam James 2





2. Lorenzo Montana-Black Ivy PS 08/117
3. The Evolution of Move D & Namlook AW 057
4. Move D & Namlook XX Taygete PK 08/191
5. Johannes Schmoelling-A Thousand Times
6. Picture Palace Music-Natatorium-music for moonlight drives & swimming pools
7. Tangerine Dream-The London Eye
8. Jerome Froese-The Speed of Snow
9. Human Being-Live at the Zodiak – Berlin 1968
10. Tangerine Dream-Chandra
11. Tangerine Dream-Winter in Hiroshima

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New Composers-Advanced Indigo PS 08/103

Now playing...Pete Namlook-XXIII Pearl PK 08/192

Pearl I: Probably my favourite track on the whole CD, imagine an orchestra playing very slowly, repeating simple phrases over and over again, they create overtones, resplendent that melt and fade into one another. For the listener time stands still and yet the universe still keeps turning: 6 minutes or 6 years...it makes no difference. Just exist.

Pearl II: As a child I used to holiday near to the south downs in England and on warm summer nights I could hear the ghostly sounds of goods trains being shunted miles away, rippling through the humid air. My dreams mixed with rhythms, the pulse of the earth, flying above a sinuous, almost female landscape and now filtered through Pete's studio.

Pearl III
Pearl IV
Pearl V
Pearl VI
Pearl VII
Pearl VIII
Pearl IX
Pearl X
Pearl XI
Pearl XI
Pearl XIII
Pearl XIV

Overall: Pete at his most Eno-esque, albeit with a more modern sound. Recommended for anyone who likes Ambient music, in it's purest sense.

Now playing...Move D · Namlook XX - Taygete PK 08/191

Stereo CD mix

Now playing...Namlook XXIII - Pearl PK 08/192

Now playing...The Evolution of Move D & Namlook AW 057

Highly recommended, a must have for any fan of Move D & Namlook.

New release: iTunes exclusive

"Music for Babies"
(Pete Namlook)

After our baby was born, we realized by accident that he fell asleep easier while someone was vacuum cleaning though, unfortunately, it worked for only 5-10 minutes. After I realized that he was reacting to sound I did a lot of research and found out that noise in combination with a heartbeat to simulate a womb-like situation would send him under.

I developed a composition to relax and soothe our baby to sleep and to accompany his dreams. The sound of his favourite vacuum cleaner starts the CD, soon white noise, heartbeat, ocean sounds and some soft ambient music fades in for perfect relaxation of the whole family.

CD tracks:
Attracting Attention 4.03 / The Womb 5.14 / Diving 9.01
Mermaids and Angels 12.10 / Dreaming Away 29.20

While Angels Sleep

No physical release, iTunes Store exclusive!

The new CDs have landed!

25 Euro PK 08/192 Namlook · Pearl
15 Euro AW 057 The Evolution of Move D · Namlook

Postage:
6,00 Euro outside Europe
4,50 Euro within Europe
1,45 Euro for 1-2 CDs per letter within Germany / 2,20 Euro for 3-4 CDs per letter within Germany
(order > 100 Euro = free shipment)

Checkout a couple of the tracks from PEARL on Pete's Myspace page:

here

Pearl & The Evolution of Move D & Namlook on Beatport

Click here

New from FAX

PK08/192

"Namlook XXIII - Pearl"
(Pete Namlook)

The Namlook project always has been a playground for Pete to experiment, for new ways in music. Diving deeper into drones and the nature of acoustic instruments, there is a lot to hear that had not been heard and achieved in this special way before. While the tonality remains open and wide, complete worlds of overtones unfold and create a deep atmosphere. It is a music which is archaic and modern at the same time. Pearl is like listening to the truth hidden in eternal traditions, the essence of sound.

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
CD tracks: 1 - 14 Pearl I - XIV 60.00

New Ambient - The Essence of Sound

AW057

"The Evolution of Move D · Namlook"
(Pete Namlook & David Moufang)

After having created twenty Move D · Namlook collaborations between 1996 and 2009 it was time for Dave and Pete to celebrate. Highlighting the evolution of their music, this compilation CD is a demonstration of their unequalled organic composition style. Environmental, House, Ambient, Ethno, Lounge and Chill-Out are only a few styles they used and partly influenced with their music. Both are labelowners and started in the same year (1992) with their labels and ambient/Chill-out releases. Neither of them is the leader of this musical relationship; it is completely interwoven creativity that gives birth to every of their CDs.

This album is not only a compilation, it is a new CD on its own that evolves from track to track and unfolds this outstanding musical piece without interruption from the start to the end of its 79+ minutes playlength.

CD tracks:
1 - 19 Move D á Namlook I - XX 79.15

A chill-out music classic from the source

Now playing...Pete Namlook-4Voice III PK 08/155

Now playing...Move D · Namlook XX - Taygete PK 08/191

Care of I-tunes (thanks to Nickie who has this on her Laptop)

First play: 15.10.09: Hmmm...interesting, but not outstanding. I'm disappointed, think it's the worst of the series and I'm glad I didn't buy the CD.

Second play: 16.10.09: Tracks one & two are growing on me (especially two). I might just have to buy the CD afterall :)

Third play: 16.10.09: Brilliant, not as obvious as some of David's and Pete's stuff (you'll have to play it several times I think ;))...but overall I'd recommend it. Another fine addition to the series.

1. Matter - Part I 25.33 min... A vocal sample soup of a track. Things pick up later with some notes that sound like they come from a kid's toy. Nice stuff and then finally at the 11 minute mark a bass drum starts to be felt and it's soon joined by a meandering piano melody. Better than I first thought...it's growing on me I think. The panned 'sucking'-synth reminded me of Irimn Schmidt's album Toy Planet, a bit like Rapido De Noir perhaps?

2. Matter - Part II 13.51min. More Soup with the odd plucked and quirky melody floating around over a deep and dark ambience. Some drums are then added, with new panned synths. Very nice indeed. More piano is layered on top as the track swirls and loops underneath...and the piece builds. The best so far.

3. Antimatter - Part I 18.13 min. Popol Vuh meets Pete Namlook I thought, but this is soon followed by some distorted Russian voice samples, as sax/sitar/piano swap notes. Once again drums eventually arrive, but this time hand-in-hand with some xylophone...this drops away to leave just the drums which gain a funkier edge with an echoing organ pulse and a relaxed club-lite melody. The piano returns, feeling for a melody but it soon disappears leaving a flim-flam sample and a head nodding beat. Pete checks to see if his reverb unit will go up to 11...as some new vocal samples roil, whisper and repeat. The drums fade out but the piano & xylophone play a few notes attempting to hold the voices together to close. Good stuff...needs to be played again soon I think.

4. Antimatter - Part II 8.19 min. Just as track 3 finishes, so track 4 starts. The kid's toy is back, as is the plucked DX synth notes. A sequence builds, some drums are added, synths are panned, a few things are faded in and out...and long fade...and that's it.

New from FAX

"Move D · Namlook XX - Taygete"
(Pete Namlook & David Moufang)

Recorded live at David's reSource studio in Heidelberg, Dave and Pete present their 20th "Move D · Namlook" collaboration. When considering the basic theories of space travel and the skills necessary to perform space flight, one's ultimate goal is crucial. Some scenarios are purely scientific, while others are of a purely philosophical nature. Combining atmospheric and hypnotic sounds, this CD is reflecting on and meandering between matter and antimatter.

We recommended setting the player on repeat, for hours of listening pleasure while drifting away in your own space... where "every star is like a cell in the brain of the universe".

DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend's or if you don't own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.

CD tracks:
Matter - Part I 25.33 min
Matter - Part II 13.51min
Antimatter - Part I 18.13 min
Antimatter - Part II 8.19 min

Atmospheric and Hypnotic Music for Space Travel


"Spyra - Phonehead"
(Wolfram DER Spyra)

Starting with a sound that could be connected with melodic FAX Hard Trance of the old days, Spyra goes deeper into the fields of Ambient-Environmental music. Spyra's music is often performed with custom-built instruments such as the "Triangle Pads" and the "Elektrolyra", and consists of diverse sound sculptures ("sound-sheets").

Of course, Spyra is not your typical electronic musician--he was originally a performance artist who was a part of Documenta IX (1992) with his work "Panakustikum", as well as Documenta X (1997) with his work "My Little Garden of Sounds", wherein visitors were connected to P.A.S.S. (Portable Ambient Sound System) to perceive the natural environment in a processed way.
After many years have passed Spyra again proves that his path of timeless music succeeds.

CD tracks:
A 1 7 Homes & 8 Spyrits Part I 8.56 / 2 VCM 100F 10.22 / 3 Ocean 9.44
B 4 Level, Voice 11.08 / 5 VCF CS20 5.04 / 6 7 Homes & 8 Spyrits Part II 9.13
C 7 Ωmega est Alpha 14.47 / 8 Hommage a Satie 3.13

A timeless, melodic chill-out music classic

Now playing...Namlook/Schulze/Laswell-The Dark Side of the Moog V PK 08/123

Track 5, Psychedelic Brunch Part V...superb stuff!

Now playing...Spyra - January In June PS 08/118

Again...but I'm warming to it, although the slightly prog-like elements are hard to swallow.

Now playing...Move D & Namlook- XVI Travelling the Silk Road PK 08/183

1. Travelling the Silk Road Part I
2. Travelling the Silk Road Part II
3. Travelling the Silk Road Part III
4. Travelling the Silk Road Part IV

Limitation: 500

It's taken me ages to finally get some time to play this. First reactions (track I)...so far, excellent!

Recorded live at David's reSource studio in Heidelberg Dave and Pete this time explore travelling the silk route in a journey through sound.

Jazz, oriental sounds, enviromental ambient and innovative percussions relate to the silk route as a synonym for a trade and cultural transmission route winding through different civilizations as well as various landscapes connecting East and West Asia.

The musical sequences are combined in a superb way, which portray the links of traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, nomads and urban dwellers traveling from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time on the route.

The rich and inventive music is a union of cultural elements reflecting the Silk Road which was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world.

Now playing...Pete Namlook - Silence V AW 055

Now playing...Anthony Rother - Elixir of Life PS 08/100

Elixir of Life (Part 1-10) 60.43
Written and produced by Anthony Rother
Mixed and recorded at PSI Studio Germany

ONCE THERE WAS NOTHING...NOW YOU ARE HERE.

Andy G said:

ANTHONY ROTHER: Elixir Of Life

New name on Fax and his first CD for the label. A single sixty minute track and, if Namlook is looking out for musicians doing something new and original in synth music circles, then he’s certainly found the motherlode here. It’s space music, Jim, but not as we know it. Sometime rhythmic, sometimes not, it sort of broods and simmers, occasionally gets a bit angry, as the monster rolls along, threatening to lay waste to anything daft enough to come in its path. There’s a kind of sinister menace to the darkly flowing sound worlds that make up this intensity with a seemingly bottomless bass synth backdrop and distant synth fills to give some semblance of light to the affair, while the main body of the album is preoccupied with electronic music of an altogether more eerie nature, yet one that is utterly hypnotising in its effect. The fourth section sets up a sequencer rhythm and even that manages to be scary while the electronic sounds and textures and layers on the fifth part are positively unnerving in comparison. Overall, it’s one seriously strange album, the likes of which you won’t have heard before, so all credit to the musician for producing such an innovative work and to Namlook for having the courage to release it.

Now playing...Spyra - January In June PS 08/118

A bit average...some really good tracks and some that haven't (as yet) connected with me. It could be that I'm simply going off Spyra's music a little.

New from FAX and Rather Interesting

Available 'very soon'. Click on the thumbnails for less eye-strain

Spyra-Sferics PS 08/91

Mechanic Piano 3.06
Sferics 7.35
Interzen 11.59
10-12 Meters 10.45
Gentle Machines 11.59
Crossing the Channel 16.06
Vinyl vs Cards 9.17
V.C. Piano 3.10

I think I'm going off this album a bit, although I still think the title track is one of the best tracks from Wolfram.



Andy G siad:

SPYRA: Sferics

The story so far.... first album released, a brilliant album reviewed by CDS and largely ignored by the listening public. The second album comes along, with its '70's Germanic sequencer/melodic leanings and the world flocks to it, then starts to realise that perhaps the first album was rather good after all. A third album emerges in a similar vein to the second yet not consumed as passionately by the legion of Spyra fans out there, who presumably didn't want a re-run of the second album, Well, if that was the case, you've got your wishes here with this 4th album, which is as far away from the first 3 as you can get. An immaculate album, it opens with 3 mins of solo piano, before track 2 comes in on a languid, lazy groove, all very summery with light, slow rhythms, el piano notes that hang in the air, a slowly moving bass and soaring wordless female vocals and a smooth jazzy feel Track 3 starts as a largely space music affair punctuated as the track goes on by various solid, eastern-influence el/acc perc rhythms and swirling synth backdrops. Track 4 mixes synth and ambient dub to create a mid-paced galloping rhythm with plenty of richly textured synths in the foreground flowing endlessly through and a jaunty set of lead synth melodies over the top, all quite atmospheric by the 7 min part of its 10+ min running time, as the rhythm intensity increases. Track 5 features nearly 12 minutes of relaxed, jazzy-feel synth music with slow rhythms and plenty of smooth synth/string synth backgrounds, as well as a few melody lines from synth and el piano creeping around on top of the mix, all very tranquil yet substantial. The 16 min track 6 is the nearest thing to the teutonic glories of album 2, with slower rhythms but plenty of thickly structured synth layers and a very cosmic atmosphere. Track 7 is a sprawling collection of slow rhythms, samples, swirling synths and distant layers, while track 8 ends the album as it began, with more solo piano.

Now playing...New Composers-Advanced Indigo PS 08/103

1. Phantom Ships and Strange Voices 7.59 7/10
2. Invisible Assailants 5.17 6/10
3. Encounters with Aliens 7.14 5/10
4. Spontaneous Human Combustion 7.05 5/10
5. Levitation Flight 7.28 5/10
6. Lightning Pictures 5.55 6/10
7. Miraculous Provision 3.38 5/10
8. Electric People 3.54 7/10
9. Practical Witchcraft 5.48 6/10
10. Spectral Mutilators 7.35 5/10

Can't recommend it!

Andy G said:

NEW COMPOSERS: Advanced Indigo

Their latest on Fax and features ten tracks from near four to just under eight minutes long. The opener, ‘Phantom Ships and Strange Voices’, the longest track, is just sublime, with a lurching synth bass rhythm allied to neatly chunky percussion as this smooth layer of synths, distant piano leads, Russian voice samples, almost early Floyd-like wordless “oohing” and “aaahing” plus synth swoops, gorgeous refrains and flute-like atmospheric melody all combine to create a track that you will play and play and play, with its warm feelings and deep textures – quite brilliant. The 5 minute ‘Invisible Assailants’ has a more Eastern flavour with more lurching bass foundations, sitar-like soundscape, plenty of deep synth dimensions, occasional sampled voices and soaring synths overhead. The 7 minute ‘Encounters With Aliens’ carries on this soundscape only drops the Eastern motif in favour of a more spacey and violin-like sea of layers and textures as the chunkier drum/bass/percussive rhythms roll along at a perfect pace, the track unfolding quite gloriously. Without a less than satisfying track on the album, it is their ability to throw so many things into the mix of each track with nothing wasted and so much on which to focus, all the time keeping it sensibly paced and musically satisfying, that makes this a real chill-out album that has way more going for it than many, and has to be seen as a quite superb Fax label album, up there with the best to date.

Now playing...Pete Namlook & Wolfram-Virtual Vices II PK 08/154

1. Bauxit 14.44 A bit average I think
2. 2nd Level Distance 14.29 Better, nice intro, although the vocals are a bit New-Agey
3. Tshoogy Beatbox 11.00 Probably the best the album has to offer IMHO
4. Svuk 21.23

Andy G said:

PETE NAMLOOK/SPYRA: Virtual Vices II
Oh well…….just goes to show that, in the wide world of Fax, they can still surprise you. The first one in this series, from two giants of the ambient sequencer scene turned out to be unexpectedly serene and cosmic, albeit with a melodic bent, so you get a second volume and, surprise surprise, it’s way more rhythmic. The extraordinary thing here is that you’ve got a situation where a label like Fax has been going for years without anyone taking up the idea, then Ian Boddy comes along with his Din label and proceeds to take the Fax idea up to a level of quality across, so far, eight releases, that surprised even me, while musically running alongside Fax to a degree, only way more adventurous. So now, with this album, it’s almost as though Namlook has been listening to the Din label stuff and creating an album that mirrors what they are doing – full circle by coincidence or what!! Anyway, it’s full of strung-out synth solos, lolloping rhythms, ambient dub bass, occasional female voice samples, more string synth than Boddy would ever use, and some split-stereo rhythms that sound more like something off an album by that transvestite style charcter on the Sky label in the ‘80’s whose name I have completely forgotten. Still, it’s a good album, and that much you can say.