I received this via facsimile last night...
Frankfurt,23.08.94
Hello "Will-E",
find enclosed my new release list.
I heard about the discussion on the internet from Mixmaster Morris.
If you could give this to the net it would be appreciated (just to avoid
misunderstandings).
1 my limitation of records is 400-600 each title (this depends on the
pressing plant. If you order 500 it is not said that you'll receive exactly this
quantity. Since my distributor ran into problems by the beginning of this year
by selling this limited quantity worldwide I had to find a way to ease the
situation for everybody. As these problems came from the high price, 1
decreased the price dramatically and increased the limitation to 1000. This
turned out to work extremely well. This started with AIR II CD. The reason
why there are shops all over the world selling FAX is that1 am very much into
spreading the Ambient idea worldwide...this leads to...
2 yes, I said that I wanted " to flood the market" but a lot of people
misunderstand. With limited editions you couldn't flood the markt with a lot
of copies on one CD. The last thing that I am interested in is sell-out. I
want to flood the market with a lot of different music that through the
variety of sounds
a-ambient music is not strictly to define and would not become a boring
music with strict laws and
b-to create a worldwide buzz and interest in ambient/environmental music
as every week in a lot of areas on our planet a diffrent fax record is
being sent to
c-to be able to give my artists a perspective and a possibility to make
their living (partly or fully) from their music. On the sublabel (PS) i.e.
all the artist receive two third of the profit which is 66.66% this is the
reason why musicians like Dr. Atmo live from FAX even though the number of
copies is limited. FAX does not only want to do innovations in music there
is also a social-political aspect to it. Musicians receive at FAX the
money as soon as I receive it and not 90 days after the 30th of June and
December. All this little major label tricks are not part of my company.
The unlimited sales are being made by the companies who license FAX like
instinct who will be starting to sell FAX (5 double CDs starting with a
compilation) in fall (september). To be innovative not only re to music is
our main motto...the music and the artist is our main concern.
3 Pete Namlook a New Age musician...this is just so rediculous. I did 2
tracks for 2 diffrent New Age collections because the record company that I
was releasing the last of my " Romantic Warrior" albums asked me to do so.
At this time I didn't know what NA was. They just said do two of your beatless
tracks. When I gave these tracks to them they complained that they were not
melodic enough and quite melancholic and they only released them because
the deadline was very close and they had no alternative track. I released one
of this two tracks " undercover" on FAX. Just listen to the track " homo
ambiens" on Limelight CD. It is identical with the track "Space Quest" on
"European New Instrumental Music" (a compilation on Blue Flame with
Tangerine Dream, Enya etc.). Later as I continued to do my kind of "New
Age" music, which was already what you call now Ambient and I call
Environmental music, and denied to do Jazz-Rock Fusion or "real" New Age
the record company didn't want to take any track from me...then I started
doing techno and sold with my first record in this area "Sequential" on POD
Communications my kind of music on the B-Side (" The Mission " - a 7 year
old track which was called "The Sonne" before). Fortunately the techno
listeners were more open minded than the New Age crowd and after a time
when I was selling Fax Vinyl with all the Environmental "B-"Sides the
listeners in England said that1 want to sell my dance tracks through my
Ambient music.
That's the story so far. The future: no musical boundaries ahead....
Yours
PETER KUHLMANN
So for everyone that has been nagging me for an update to my discography,
HERE IT IS! The complete discography is available on hyperreal.com in the
/labels directory. It should be updated with this new info within a week
or so.
PK08/90 Namlook V 25/94 P.N. Live in London - Wembley
PS08/49 Transonic 26/94 Ambient with Robert Musso
(Bass by Bill Laswell)
PS08/50 Cymatic Scan 27/94 Ambient with Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue
- - - Collector's Box with all Sublabel(triangle)12" Maxis limited to 40 Boxes
PAUSE
PK08/92 Namlook VI 34/94 P.N. Live at Cubik - Switzerland
PK08/91 Musik for Ballet 27/94 Ambient music for ballet "Electro Clips"
Music for a Performance at 'TAT'
PS08/56 I.F. 2 40/94 Ambient with Dr. Atmo & Deep Space Network
PS08/53 Softcore 41/94 Intelli-Ambient with Atom Heart
PS08/51 Electro Harmonix 43/94 Ambient with Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp
PK08/93 NamlookVll 44/94 P N Live at Inteference Festival Berlin/
Loveparade =Subharmonic Premiere=
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PS08/54 Recurring Dreams of the 45/94 Environmental Ambient with Chris Meloche
Urban Myth
PS08/55 The Whole Traffic 2 46/94 Car-Ambientwith Dr Atmo, Pino & Wildjamin
-
PS08/59 XJacks 48/94 Envrionmental-Ambient with Dandy Jack &
Victor Sol
PS08/60 Otras 49/94 Ambient with David Reeves
-
PS08/57 Organic Cloud 51/94 Ambient with Tetsu Inoue
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PS08/52 A Day in the Park 01/95 Ambientwith Dr Atmo, Pino &Wildjamin
PS08/58 Aerial Service Area 02/95 Ambient with Victor Sol, Niko Heyduck &
Atom Heart
THE "spaced out" lines will be filled with some other weird stuff later...
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