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.;Solo4Voice Air AtomElectronic Music CenterMusic for BalletNamlook Season's Greetings Silence Syn Music for Babies
;with Dr. AtmoEscapeSilence
;with Atom HeartJet Chamber
;with Karl BergerPolytime
;with Dandy JackAmp Silent Music
;with GaudiRe:sonate
;with DJ BrainwaveLimelight
;with DJ CrissDeltraxxSequential
;with DJ DagAdlernebel
;with Pascal F.E.O.S.Hearts of SpaceMinimalistic Source
;with Rob GordonOzoona
;with Robert GörlElektro
;with Richie HawtinFrom Within
;with Hubertus HeldPete Namlook/Hubertus Held
;with Higher Intelligence AgencyS.H.A.D.O
;with Tetsu Inoue62 Eulengasse2350 Broadway Sequential Shades of Orion Time²
;with Geir JenssenThe Fires of Ork
;with Bill LaswellThe Dark Side of the Moog
;with Mixmaster MorrisDreamfish
;with David MoufangKoolfang Move D / Namlook
;with New ComposersPlanetarium Russian Spring
;with Burhan ÖçalSultan
;with Jochem Paappp-nmlk
;with Peter ProchirMiles ApartPossible Gardens
;with Ludwig RehbergThe Putney
;with Robert SattlerKooler
;with Klaus SchulzeThe Dark Side of the Moog
;with Jonah SharpAlien Community Wechselspannung
;with Wolfram SpyraVirtual Vices
;with Steve StollHemisphere
;with Charles Uzzell-EdwardsA New Consciousness Create
;with Lorenzo Montanà
- ''Labyrinth''