Pete Namlook

Pete Namlook
Birth name	Peter Kuhlmann
Born	(1960-11-25)November 25, 1960
Origin	Frankfurt, Germany
Died
Genres	Ambient, Electronic
Occupation(s)	Producer, Composer
Labels	FAX +49-69/450464

Pete Namlook (born 25 November 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann [ˈkuːlmaːn] in Frankfurt, Germany, died on 8 November 2012) was an ambient and electronic-music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. Inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, he also composed his own albums.

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 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, Tetsu Inoue, Atom™, and Tying Tiffany.

"Namlook" is "Koolman", a phonetic rendering of his real name, spelled backward.

Kuhlmann died on 8 November 2012 after suffering a heart attack.

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 (25 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)
• Music for Babies

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 11 total also with Klaus Schulze; other seven are only Namlook and Schulze)
• Outland Series: 1, 2, 3, IV, 5
• Psychonavigation Series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Outer Dark

with Mixmaster Morris

• Dreamfish (2 releases)

with David Moufang

• Koolfang (3 releases)
• Move D / Namlook (23 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 (11 releases)

with Jonah Sharp

• Alien Community (2 releases)
• Wechselspannung (2 releases)

with Wolfram Spyra

• Virtual Vices (6 releases)

with Steve Stoll

• Hemisphere

with Charles Uzzell-Edwards

• A New Consciousness (2 releases)
• Create (2 releases)

with Lorenzo Montanà

• Labirynth (5 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

• Die Welt ist Klang, an 8-CD boxed set tribute to Pete Namlook
• Pete Namlook photographies at Discogs (1) - Discogs (3) - Analogue-Alien (center)

Discographies

• Pete Namlook at AMG
• Pete Namlook discography at Discogs
• Pete Namlook discography at MusicBrainz
• Discography of his FAX recordings

Misc

• Samples and quotes in FAX albums (including many Namlook) at FAX Galleria
• Fax Label review site
• Documentary about Pete Namlook on YouTube