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Since Pete Namlook was in San Francisco for the show, I didn't get the FAX update until last night. Here is the latest revision to the current releases. Everything upto Ambiant OTAKU is already available in the US. Below I've included the information on Pete's other labels, separate from FAX. The World Ambient label is not to be confused with the WORLD CD-only FAX sublabel (PW code). Interesting to note on this new label is "the artist's cut" of Definitive Ambient Collection 2. From what I've heard, Rising High screwed Pete so he released his own version instead. The whole thing (revised) should be available soon at techno.stanford.edu in the /pub/ambient/labels directory with additions and corrections. PW 11 From Within 08/94 Ambient/Intelligent with Richie Hawtin of +8 Records & P.N. PS 08/38 Houdini (CD) 09/94 Dance w/Simon Ellis (Zero Gravity) PS 08/42 Biosatellites 2 09/94 Dance with DJ Criss & Tobias Balle-Peterson PS 08/39 The Whole Traffic (CD) 10/94 Ambient/Intelligent with Dr. Atmo & Pino/Benjamin PK 08/87 Escape (2CD) 11/94 Ambient Dance with Dr. Atmo & P.N. PS 08/43 Ambiant OTAKU 12/94 Ambient with Tetsu Inoue PS 08/40 Music to Films 1 (CD) 12/94 Ambient with Dr. Atmo & Oliver Lieb "Kooyanisquatsi" of Spicelab/Harthouse Records. PS 08/41 Atom Heart 14/94 Monochrome Ambient with Atom Heart "Live at sel l/s/c" PS 08/41 Gorn 3 15/94 Dance with Massimo Vivona & Bela Cox PK 08/88 Namlook 15/94 Elektro-Ambient with P.N. "Aliens in My Suitcase" OTHER LABELS: Yesterday/Tomorrow Records Frankfurt ------------------------------------ Release week: Cat/No.: Project: Music written by: 51/93 Y/T 1 PASSION Peter Kuhlmann/Juergen Rehberg 14/94 Y/T 2 WANDERING SOUL Peter Kuhlmann/Albon Gerhordt World Ambient ------------- Release week: Cat/No. Project Music written by: 08/94 aw 001 Ambient: P.N., Mixmaster Morris, Dr. Atmo, etc. The Definitive Ambient Collection 2 Pete Namlook: The Artist's Cut 15/94 aw 002 Silence 2 Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo ___ / / / / / / _ __/ (_/__/ / (__ (__ ___/

quoted 4 lines The World Ambient label is not to be confused with the WORLD CD-only FAX

>The World Ambient label is not to be confused with the WORLD CD-only FAX >sublabel (PW code). Interesting to note on this new label is "the artist's >cut" of Definitive Ambient Collection 2. From what I've heard, Rising High >screwed Pete so he released his own version instead.

Is this World Ambient label another FAX sublabel or is it a separate label like the Y-T releases? I have Passion and I think it's quite good. It supposedly tells the story of the events surrounding the Crucifixion of Christ. Is Pete religious? It seems as if Rising High is going down the drain. They've had some good releases lately, but they've all been from the same people (Syzygy, FLF, Cybertrax/Influx/James Bernard). I guess they lost the licensing deal with Harthouse, and it looks like they'll lose it with FAX. I talked to someone who went record shopping with Mixmaster Morris up in SF, and I guess the album's finished, but it's not coming out on Rising High. He wouldn't tell who's releasing it. My guess is that it's not FAX, because the release would be too limited. Jonathan eabu751@orion.oac.uci.edu

In article <199404051811.AA25267@rigel.oac.uci.edu> you write:

quoted 8 lines It seems as if Rising High is going down the drain. They've had some good

>It seems as if Rising High is going down the drain. They've had some good >releases lately, but they've all been from the same people (Syzygy, FLF, >Cybertrax/Influx/James Bernard). I guess they lost the licensing deal with >Harthouse, and it looks like they'll lose it with FAX. I talked to someone >who went record shopping with Mixmaster Morris up in SF, and I guess the album's >finished, but it's not coming out on Rising High. He wouldn't tell who's >releasing it. My guess is that it's not FAX, because the release would be >too limited.

Rising High has always been a bit lacking in its own signings. The better artists always seem to move on quite quickly, although they're apparently better payers than many. Now the majors have decided that ambient techno is to be The Next Big Thing and started waving their cheque books around they'll probably find it tougher still to keep artists. Rising High happened to be in the right place at the right time to licence some good German stuff, but many of those labels are now either capable of doing it themselves (Fax now have a UK distribution deal) or have shacked up with a major (Harthouse now have a UK subsiduary run with WEA). I don't know if they can find some other cluster of interesting techno somewhere in the world - Uraguay perhaps?