A fellow in a local shop here who I go to to get stuff ordered in faxed
this to me and also asked for me to post it here as he doesn't have net
access. Sorry for the fact it's all in CAPS and some of the lines are
quite garbled but I used omni page to pull the text off the fax and the
faxes were pretty bad, enjoy:
FROM THE MURKY NEURAL PATHWAYS OF MORPH.COMM. 223
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS ON THE GERMAN IDM (INTELLIGENT DIGITAL MUSIC???) SCENE.
STRONGER THAN EVER WITH A SLEW OF HIGH QUALITY LABELS, WITH MANY GROSS
TECHNOSPHERE COLLABORATIONS.
-THE EVER PROLIFIC FAX LABEL, PETE NAMLOOKS BABY, CHURNING OUT A FEW
RELEASES EVERY MONTH THROUGH FIVE IMPRINTS, THE PS CAT# (WITH THE TRIANGLE
IN A CIRGLE SYMBOL) CONSISTING OF RELEASES BY EVERYBODY OTHER THAN
NAMLOOK (ABOUT 95 RELEASES SO FAR) ..../PK CAT# (WITH A CIRCLE WITH VARIOUS
PICTURES) CONSISTING OF RELEASES EITHER NAMLOOK SOLO, OR CERTAIN
COLLABORATIONS
(MORE THAN A HUNDRED RELEASES, AROUND 110 I BELIEVE)....
PW CAT# (WITH THE PLANET EARTH PICTURE CONSISTINC OF COLLABORATIONS
(ABOUT 26 SO FAR).... /THE 'WORLD AMBIENT' LABEL WITH THE AW CAT# (MUCH
DIFFERENT GRAPHIGALLY) CONSISTING I BELIEVE, OF REISSUES OF IMPORTANT
OUT OF PRINT COLLABERATIONS FROM EARLY FAX RELEASES.../AND FINALLY THE
'SEASONS' RELEASES, NAMED AFTER THE SEASON IT WAS RELEASED DURING,..*
SO YOU'VE GOT WINTER, SPRING 1 & 2, ETC,.... USUALLY AMBIENT ONE TRACKERS*.
... THERE'S EVEN A CHRISTMAS ONE, THOUGH NO JINGLES, JUST DECEMBER BLISS...
-----EARLY RELEASES WERE GENERALLY GERMAN ARTIST LIKE ATOM HEART, DR. ATMO
PINO & WILDJAMIN, VICTOR SOL (A PERSONAL FAVE), DEEP SPACE NETWORK (DAVID
MOUFANG), SIMON ELLIS, ETC. . AND AS THE RELEASES CONTINUE, TETSU INOUE,
MONTREAL NATIVE DAVID REEVES (CAN. RELEASE 'NARCOS' ON DISCREET LABEL A
DELIGIOUS NEW COMP TITLED 'INDISCREET HOME FREQUENCY TEST' PACKAGED
LIKE A TEST CD WITH THE LIKES OF MICK HARRIS (SCORN), FINAL (J.BROADRICK),
KK NULL, (CAN'T REMEMBER THE RE5T, THOUGH A LOT OF OTHER POPULAR ARTISTS,
STILL HAVEN'T PICKED THE COPY FROM MY HOLD BOX) AND OTHER IN THE DARKER
ELECTRONIG MESH OF SOUND FIELD)(PLUGGIN' CANUCK, YA KNOW), BILL LASWELL,
JONAH SHARP (SPACETIME CONTINUUM), RICHIE HAWTIN (OH, COME ON...), ROBERT
MUSSD (LASWELL COHORT & GREENPOINT STUDIOS NY HOMEBODY), CHARLES UZELL
EDWARDS (SAN FRANCISCO CHILL-OUT ROOM MEISTER, ANOUTHER PERSONAL FAVE) .
..... AND OTHERS OF NOTE (IF I COULD FIND THAT DAMN DISCOGRAPHY I MISPLACED,
*... I CAN POST IT ONCE I FIND IT IF ANYONES INTERESTED, UNLESS IT'S ALREADY
POSTED, WHICH I HAVE NO IDEA TILL I PLUG IN IN MARCH). QUITE A WORLDLY
ROSTER, A VERY IMPORTANT NODE IN THE ELECTRONIC UNDERGROUND WEB, AND ONE
THAT USUALLY GETS PASSED BY DUE TO THE SEEMING ANONYMITY OF THE LABELS
INCESSANT RELEASE OF PRODUCT.
---NAMLOOK WORKING A LOT NOW ADAYS WITH KLAUS SGHULTZE (DOES THAT MEAN
RECORD STORES CAN STOP FILING HIM UNDER NEW AGE AND STICK HIM IN THE
THCHNO/NEW ELECTRONIGA SECTION?? HMMMM...) AS WELL AS GETTING INTO
SUBHARMONICS, FREQUENCIES, ETC. (LUSTMORD, ANYONE?.*.) ESPECIALLY AFTER
HIS WORKING WITH ELDER STATESMAN OF ELECTRONIC MAYHEM, OSKAR SALA
C(S 08/78 -- QUITE INTERESTING, CONSIDERING SOME OF THE TRACKS ARE FROM
THE 50 s)
---ALL IN ALL, A TREASURE OF A LABEL(S), THOUGH QUITE THE FEAT TO COLLECT ALL
THE RELEASES, BUT DEFINITELY WORTH IT.
---GERTAIN KEY RELEASES OUT THROUGH FAX AMERICA/INSTINGT, MANY AS AFFORDABLE
DOUBLE CDS.
---GOOD PLACE THAT l'M AWARE OF THAT HAS LOT'S OF STOCK AT AN OK PRICE IS
CARGO RECORDS NORTH AMERICA
----ALL FOR NOW ON FAX, BUT NOW ON TO THE NEWER SEEDLING LABELS THAT HAVE
CROPPED UP FROM EARLY FAX ARTISTS .
RATHER INTERESTING---^-----ATOM HEART'S LABEL, UP TO AROUND 35 RELEASES
ALREADY. HAVEN'T ACQUIRED ENOUGH RELEASES OR INFORMATION YET TO SAY OTHER
THAT THE MAJORITY SEEM 1'0 BE ATOM HEART PROJECTS THEMSELVES, WITH OTHER
MAI N CONTR I BUTOR BE I NG TETSU I NOVE CANOTHER K I NG OF THE PROL I F
I G).
OTHER GERMAN ELECTRONIC
STABLESs-v---------------------------------------MILLE PLATEUX - I
BELIEVE A FORCE INC EXTENSION....ARTISTS INVOLVED BEING ALEC EMPIRE (THE
NEW
LOW ICE CD BEING PHENOMENAL, AS HIS LAST ONE 'GENERATION STAR WARS'---
HEY
OZY! I WANT A COPY!), GLOBAL ELECTRONIC NETWORK, CHRISTIAN VOGEL (A
MASTER
OF SQUELCHY SOUNDS), SIDE THINGS FROM,
THE AIRE LIQUIDE CREW, ETC ABOUT 15 RELEASES SO FAR YET VERY
STRONG.
RECYCLE OR DIE ----- SVEN VATH'S EYE Q SUB LABEL FOR MORE AMBIENT
RELEASES
FROM HIS COHORTS.... LIKE DOMINIC WOOSEY, RALF HILDENBEUTEL, HELMUT
ZERLETT,
STEVE BE ZET, OLIVER LIEB, ETC....---- VERY LAIDBACK---- I REALLY HAVEN'T
SEEN ANY
RECENT OUTPUT LATELY, THOUGH.-- ABOUT TEN RELEASES, SO FAR..... I
BELIEVE.
UPDATES AND STREAMLINING TO THIS IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH, AS WELL AS A
GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF THE WORLD WIDE ELECTRONIC WEB (GREENPOINT,
REFLECTIVE, REPHLEX, TOUCH, NINJA TUNE/NTONE, SILENT, LANGUAGE,... THE
LIST
GOES ON, ... BUT NEXT TIME)