Pete Namlook


Peter Kuhlmann , known professionally as Pete Namlook was a German ambient and electronic music producer and composer. One music commentator noted that Namlook was "... comfortably the most prolific and arguably the best of the new wave of ambient/house artists of the early 1990s". Namlook himself noted, "I think it's very important to enhance the notion of a global ambient movement, and to realize that a lot of music - which we didn't expect to be ambient is in fact very, very ambient. When you examine other cultures you discover that what we recognize as a very new movement is in fact incredibly ancient".

Life and career

He was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. He was inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and most importantly Klaus Schulze.
Namlook released many solo albums, as well as collaboration albums with notable artists such as Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Geir Jenssen, Gaudi, Richie Hawtin, Tetsu Inoue, Uwe Schmidt, Amir Abadi, and David Moufang. By August 2005, Namlook and collaborators had released 135 albums.
Kuhlmann died on 8 November 2012, at the age of 51, 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.
;Solo
  • 4Voice
  • Air
  • Atom
  • Electronic Music Center
  • Music for Ballet
  • Namlook
  • Season's Greetings
  • Silence
  • Syn
  • Music for Babies
;with Dr. Atmo
  • Escape
  • Silence
;with Atom Heart
  • Jet Chamber
;with Karl Berger
  • Polytime
;with Dandy Jack
  • Amp
  • Silent Music
;with Gaudi
  • Re:sonate
;with DJ Brainwave
  • Limelight
;with DJ Criss
  • Deltraxx
  • Sequential
;with DJ Dag
  • Adlernebel
;with Pascal F.E.O.S.
  • Hearts of Space
  • Minimalistic Source
;with Rob Gordon
  • Ozoona
;with Robert Görl
  • Elektro
;with Richie Hawtin
  • From Within
;with Hubertus Held
  • Pete Namlook/Hubertus Held
;with Higher Intelligence Agency
  • S.H.A.D.O
;with Tetsu Inoue
  • 62 Eulengasse
  • 2350 Broadway
  • Sequential
  • Shades of Orion
  • Time²
;with Geir Jenssen
;with Bill Laswell
  • The Dark Side of the Moog
  • Outland Series: 1, 2, 3, IV, 5
  • Psychonavigation Series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
;with Mixmaster Morris
  • Dreamfish
;with David Moufang
;with New Composers
  • Planetarium
  • Russian Spring
;with Burhan Öçal
  • Sultan
;with Jochem Paap
  • pp-nmlk
;with Peter Prochir
  • Miles Apart
  • Possible Gardens
;with Ludwig Rehberg
  • The Putney
;with Robert Sattler
  • Kooler
;with Klaus Schulze
;with Jonah Sharp
  • Alien Community
  • Wechselspannung
;with Wolfram Spyra
  • Virtual Vices
;with Steve Stoll
  • Hemisphere
;with Charles Uzzell-Edwards
;with Lorenzo Montanà
  • ''Labyrinth''

    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.