Peter Kuhlmann (music producer)

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Peter Kuhlmann (born November 25, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 8, 2012 ) was a German music producer specializing in chill out , ambient and other electronic music . He was best known by the pseudonym Pete Namlook , which results from his last name spoken backwards.

Life

Peter Kuhlmann was inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber , Miles Davis , Antônio Carlos Jobim , Chopin , Wendy Carlos , Tangerine Dream , Can , Klaus Schulze and Pink Floyd , among others .

He was the founder, owner and mastermind of the label FAX + 49-69 / 450464 ( FAX Records ), on which he had published hundreds of productions since the early 1990s, which were collaborated with Klaus Schulze , David Moufang , and others in compositional and recording technology . Spyra , Atom Heart , Bill Laswell , Geir Jenssen , Burhan Öçal , Karl Berger , Pascal FEOS and Richie Hawtin .

Kuhlmann grew up in Frankfurt and started his musical career there with the electronic ensemble Romantic Warrior. In 1997 he moved from Frankfurt to Traben-Trarbach in Rhineland-Palatinate .

He died of a heart attack on November 8, 2012.

Discography

Kuhlmann's discography has around 330 albums that were released under 60 pseudonyms (including 4 Voice, Romantic Warrior, Syn, Air).

Note: If a series has only one album, the number is not listed. This list only includes albums released on CD. Vinyl singles and EPs are not listed.

solo

  • 4Voice (three albums; 4Voice with Maik Maurice as "arrangement assistant" on two tracks; 4Voice III with Marc Romboy on one track)
  • Air (five albums)
  • atom
  • Electronic Music Center
  • Music for Ballet
  • Namlook (19 albums)
  • Season's Greetings (four albums; one compilation The Four Seasons )
  • Silence (three albums from Total 5; the first two are with Dr. Atmo)
  • Syn (two albums)

with Dr. Atmosphere

  • Escape
  • Silence (two albums from Total 5; the last three are Namlook Solos)

with Atom Heart

  • Jet Chamber (five albums)

with Karl Berger

  • Polytime

with Dandy Jack

  • Amp (two albums)
  • Silent Music

with DJ Brainwave

  • Limelight

with DJ Criss

with DJ Dag

  • Eagle Nebula

with Pascal FEOS

  • Hearts of Space

with Gaudi

  • Re: sonata

with Rob Gordon

  • Ozoona

with Robert Görl

  • Electro (two albums)

with Richie Hawtin

  • From Within (three albums)

with Hubertus Held

  • Pete Namlook / Hubertus Held

with Higher Intelligence Agency

  • SHADO (two albums)

with Tetsu Inoue

  • 62 Eulengasse
  • 2350 Broadway (four albums)
  • Sequential (one title)
  • Shades of Orion (three albums)
  • Time²

with Geir Jenssen

  • The Fires of Ork (two albums)

with Bill Laswell

  • The Dark Side of the Moog (four albums from Total 10 are with Bill Laswell; the other six are just Namlook and Schulze)
  • Outland (five albums)
  • Psychonavigation (five albums)

with Mixmaster Morris

  • Dreamfish (two albums)

with David Moufang

  • Koolfang (three albums)
  • Move D / Namlook (23 albums)

with New Composers

  • Planetarium (two albums)
  • Russian Spring

with Burhan Öçal

  • Sultan (three albums)

with Jochem Paap

  • pp-nmlk

with Peter Prochir

  • Miles Apart
  • Possible Gardens

with Ludwig Rehberg

  • The Putney (two albums)

with Robert Sattler

  • Cooler

with Klaus Schulze

  • The Dark Side of the Moog (eleven albums)

with Jonah Sharp

  • Alien Community (two albums)
  • AC voltage (two albums)

with Wolfram Spyra

  • Virtual Vices (six albums)

with Steve Stoll

  • Hemisphere

with Charles Uzzell-Edwards

  • A New Consciousness (two albums)
  • Create (two albums)

Yesterday & Tomorrow

Yesterday & Tomorrow is a sub-label of FAX with a small number of releases so far, which was founded to combine the music of the romantic with the ambient . Pete Namlook used his real name Peter Kuhlmann on the releases of these music albums .

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RIP Pete Namlook at residentadvisor.net, accessed November 15, 2012
  2. ↑ Definition of mastermind in context: "a person with an outstanding intellect: an eminent musical mastermind . Someone who plans and directs an ingenious and complex scheme or enterprise: the mastermind behind the project ".
  3. ↑ Pete Namlook's family releases official statement on his death at residentadvisor.net, accessed July 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Move D / Namlook. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhlmann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Namlook, Pete (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer in the field of chill out, ambient and other electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2012