Pete Namlook (born 25 November 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

, West Germany, died on 8 November 2012) was an ambient and

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label

FAX +49-69/450464 FAX +49-69/450464 (also known as simply Fax or Fax Label) was a German record label founded in Frankfurt in 1992 by ambient musician Peter Kuhlmann (who recorded as Pete Namlook, a phonetic inversion of his surname). It was originally devoted t ...

, which he oversaw. He was inspired by the music of

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(Atom™),

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(Move D). By August 2005, Namlook and collaborators had released 135 albums (excluding re-releases, vinyl singles, compilations of existing material, and FAX releases beginning with PS, in which he personally was not involved in the music making). "Namlook" is "Koolman", a phonetic rendering of his real name, spelled backwards. 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

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* ''Jet Chamber'' (5 releases) ;with

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* ''Polytime'' ;with Dandy Jack * ''Amp'' (2 releases) * ''Silent Music'' ;with Gaudi * ''Re:sonate'' ;with DJ Brainwave * ''Limelight'' ;with DJ Criss * ''Deltraxx'' * ''Sequential'' (one track is Namlook with

, not DJ Criss) ;with DJ Dag * ''Adlernebel'' ;with Pascal F.E.O.S. * ''Hearts of Space'' * ''Minimalistic Source'' ;with Rob Gordon * ''Ozoona'' ;with

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* ''Elektro'' (2 releases) ;with

* ''From Within'' (3 releases) ;with Hubertus Held * ''Pete Namlook/Hubertus Held'' ;with

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* ''S.H.A.D.O'' (2 releases) ;with

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

* ''The Fires of Ork'' (2 releases) ;with

* ''The Dark Side of the Moog'' (4 releases of 11 total also with

; other seven are only Namlook and Schulze) * Outland Series: '' 1'', '' 2'', '' 3'', '' IV'', '' 5'' * Psychonavigation Series: '' 1'', '' 2'', '' 3'', '' 4'', '' 5'' ;with

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* ''Dreamfish'' (2 releases) ;with

* ''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

* ''The Dark Side of the Moog'' (11 releases) ;with Jonah Sharp * ''Alien Community'' (2 releases) * ''Wechselspannung'' (2 releases) ;with

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* ''Virtual Vices'' (6 releases) ;with Steve Stoll * ''Hemisphere'' ;with Charles Uzzell-Edwards * ''A New Consciousness'' (2 releases) * ''Create'' (2 releases) ;with Lorenzo Montanà * ''Labyrinth'' (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

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Discography of his FAX recordings
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Namlook, Pete Ambient musicians German electronic musicians 1960 births 2012 deaths 20th-century German musicians

Projects

Yesterday & Tomorrow

See also

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