First of all, my email address has changed from kia@eden.rutgers.edu to
will@panix.com. I finally have a more stable & reliable account - yippie!
Anyway, for those of you who have been asking, I just sent FAX records a
FAX which means they should be getting back to me with an update to the
discography.
The current information I have ends with the next release which is:
PS 08/40 Music to Films 1 (CD) 12/94 Ambient with Dr. Atmo & Oliver Lieb
"Kooyanisquatsi"
[Oliver Lieb is also known as Spicelab and releases material on the Eye-Q label
and it's Harthouse sublabel.]
I'll post a list of only the releases that are new and expecting and I'll
send the whole list out to the archives. This is all assuming that they do
fax me back like last time.
For those who don't know and are interested, I've been maintaining a
discography for FAX Records (Pete Namlook's label) and its sublabels. The
current version is available at the gopher and FTP site:
techno.stanford.edu in the /pub/ambient/labels directory.
enjoy
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The extra tracks on the CD:
Lost sounds A LOT like something off Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works
II; very minimal & dark. Snake Charmer is a pretty good IDM tune - again
that shuffley ambient feel to it while Sad Alliance is an OK ambient track.
I was kind of worried about this CD. I was never really crazy about Pete
Namlook on his own. His style is rather minimal and spacey. I like
simplicity but I also like variety. With Ritchie Hawtin, I dig his tranced
out dance music. However, if you listen to some of the ambient tracks on
the FUSE album, they just don't seem that interesting to me, especially
"theychx" which goes on for over 13 minutes. On the Plastikman album, only
a couple of the songs that lean towards the ambient side seem like filler
material to me. The good thing though is that my roommate took the risk of
buying it and it turns out to be much better than I expected. I think this
was a really good collaboration for the two of them. It seems like it
brought out the best of both. I hope they work together again.
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