(fax) Re: Comments on Namlook 16 + Burhan Oçal picture on namlook.de

[Leendert Ramaer]

Hello everybody,
 
Thanks for all the post. It is so nice to see everybody's favourites. The "brain tingle' 
feeling already appears when reading the tracks on the lists: I listen to the track in 
my head and it makes you want to listen to it again in real. Maybe that's the best thing 
of making these lists...
 
> Top 5 Move D Namlook tracks:> 1. Der Bergkönig> 2. Schmock!> 3. Springtime> 4. Don't Call!> 5. E-lectric Touch > Odd choice for #1!  I never listen to Heidelberg, but your listing is> making me listen to it now.  You certainly like the beat-driven tracks> with the wandering / slow-build approach.  I tend to like the more> ambient / melody-driven tracks.
I think everything on Heidelberg is ace. You got the perfect jazzrock-triphop track with 
the futuristic and blistering percussion (Enjoy Jazz), than a touching synthsolo gives 
way to the most crunchy and funky Krautrock ever (Grue Bleen Paradox) before he 
segues into the next house track which summarizes the Audiolounge and A Day in the 
Live in one track (Pi Machine). The tracks are interspersed with Pete's infamous EMS 
Synthi bleeps or vocoder, his brilliant trademark which he uses since the Astrogator 
days. No-one can pull out so much soul out of such nasty sounds. Like he is saying: "I 
am Pete Namlook and I didn't come here to f$#%k around".
Such is the thing on the next track (Footer) where he is "rapping" over a super addic-
tive, absorbing, trancy minimal techno environment. I don't know where to start des-
cribing Der Bergkönig. This track is a world miracle! The trancy, absorbing quality 
from the last track is transported into this one, but our guys are telling a totally diffe-
rent story here. The theme of a unknown community in the world. People who are 
living separated from the rest of the world, yet working very hard to stay alive, to 
exist. There is no beginning and no end, like life itself. Like Fax music. 
And they create this with only some keys lapping over a jazzy rhythm section, letting
bass and beat out, creating so much space in the music like pure jazz music does. The 
filmy strings conclude this soundtrack. 
Archer's Nocturnal Doubling is the next step in futuristic house. And it still is. On the 
one hand a track for the mind, on the other hand a dancefloor burner in spe. 
David's love for Chicago House also comes through on the last track, False Decodings. 
A short, but thumping lullaby.
 
I think it is the album with the most widespread appealing on Fax, as you may read a-
bove. So many styles are displaced on one record and the length of the tracks are re-
latively short. The music itself is tight concocted. 
Of course, you have to listen with an open mind to fully enjoy this music. Each track is 
like a story on its own. That sounds maybe difficult, but is very rewarding, eventually.
 
I link here the Namlook series, especially the albums I-XIII, because they were made 
live just like Heidelberg. The music is more spontaneous which adds to the story telling 
part. 
 
To make a Top 5 of Move D/Namlook albums is impossible for me! They are all great in 
their one right. Milestones they are!
 
Oh, listened to Montage I yesterday and it's fantastic. If I had to pick one track off the 
Raumland series... This would be the one (temporarily).
 
Cheers,
 
 
Leendert 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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