Pete Namlook

Pete Namlook (born 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann /ˈpʰei.teər ˈkuːl.maːn/, in Frankfurt, Germany) is an ambient and electronic-music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX [phone], which he oversees. Inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, he also composes his own albums.

Overview

As of August 2005, Namlook and company had released 135 albums (excluding re-releases, vinyl singles, compilations of existing material, and FAX releases beginning with PS, in which he personally is not involved in the music making).

Pete Namlook has released many solo albums, as well as collaboration albums with notable artists such as Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Geir Jenssen (alias Biosphere), Atom Heart, Richie Hawtin, and Tetsu Inoue.

“Namlook” is “Koolman” spelled backwards, which is the German pronunciation of his real name.

Projects

These are all of Namlook's project series on the FAX label, with the number of albums in each series. For one-shot albums, the title is given without a number after it.

(Note: These are only the CD releases. Vinyl singles and EPs are not included. There are no full length LPs on FAX.)

;Solo
* "4Voice" (3 releases; 4Voice with Maik Maurice as "arrangement assistant" on two tracks; 4Voice III with Marc Romboy on one track)
* "Air" (5 releases)
* "Atom"
* "Electronic Music Center"
* "Music for Ballet"
* "Namlook" (21 releases)
* "Season's Greetings" (4 releases; 1 compilation titled "The Four Seasons")
* "Silence" (3 releases of 5 total; first two are with Dr. Atmo)
* "Syn" (2 releases)

;with Dr. Atmo
* "Escape"
* "Silence" (2 releases of 5 total; latter three are Namlook solo)

;with Atom Heart
* "Jet Chamber" (5 releases)

;with Karl Berger
* "Polytime"

;with Dandy Jack
* "Amp" (2 releases)
* "Silent Music"

;with DJ Brainwave
* "Limelight"

;with DJ Criss
* "Deltraxx"
* "Sequential" (one track is Namlook with Tetsu Inoue, not DJ Criss)

;with DJ Dag
* "Adlernebel"

;with Pascal F.E.O.S.
* "Hearts of Space"
* "Minimalistic Source"

;with Gaudi
* "Re:sonate"

;with Rob Gordon
* "Ozoona"

;with Robert Görl
* "Elektro" (2 releases)

;with Richie Hawtin
* "From Within" (3 releases)

;with Hubertus Held
* "Pete Namlook/Hubertus Held"

;with Higher Intelligence Agency
* "S.H.A.D.O" (2 releases)

;with Tetsu Inoue
* "62 Eulengasse"
* "2350 Broadway" (4 releases)
* "Sequential" (only one track)
* "Shades of Orion" (3 releases)
* "Time²"

;with Geir Jenssen
* "The Fires of Ork" (2 releases)

;with Bill Laswell
* "The Dark Side of the Moog" (4 releases of 10 total also with Klaus Schulze; other six are only Namlook and Schulze)
* "Outland" (5 releases)
* "Psychonavigation" (5 releases)

;with Mixmaster Morris
* "Dreamfish" (2 releases)

;with David Moufang
* "Koolfang" (3 releases)
* "Move D / Namlook" (12 releases)

;with New Composers
* "Planetarium" (2 releases)
* "Russian Spring"

;with Burhan Öçal
* "Sultan" (3 releases)

;with Jochem Paap
* "pp-nmlk"

;with Peter Prochir
* "Miles Apart"
* "Possible Gardens"

;with Ludwig Rehberg
* "The Putney" (2 releases)

;with Robert Sattler
* "Kooler"

;with Klaus Schulze
* "The Dark Side of the Moog" (10 releases)

;with Jonah Sharp
* "Alien Community" (2 releases)
* "Wechselspannung" (2 releases)

;with Wolfram Spyra
* "Virtual Vices" (5 releases)

;with Steve Stoll
* "Hemisphere"

;with Charles Uzzell-Edwards
* "A New Consciousness" (2 releases)
* "Create" (2 releases)

Yesterday & Tomorrow

This was a short-lived sub-label of FAX that was created to showcase a more classical side of ambient music. On these releases he goes by Peter Kuhlmann, his real name, rather than Pete Namlook.

* "Passion", with Jürgen Rehberg
* "Wandering Soul", with Alban Gerhardt
* "The Sunken Road", with Jürgen Rehberg and Lucia Mense

External links

; General
* [http://www.namlook.de/ Namlook.de] - Official Pete Namlook Web site
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* Pete Namlook photographies at [http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=A&obid=36149 Discogs (1)] - [http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=A&obid=1910 Discogs (3)] - [http://www.analogue-alien.de/img/Pete_Namlook.jpgAnalogue-Alien (center)]

; Discographies
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:i09ds31ya3xg~T2 Pete Namlook] at AMG
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* [http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/fax/ Discography of his FAX recordings]

; Misc
* [http://www.faxgalleria.com/fax_facts/samples_quotes.html Samples and quotes in FAX albums] (including many Namlook) at FAX Galleria
* [http://www.2350.org Fax Label review site]