Just get Silence I as soon as you see a copy of it. It's a milestone, and the opening track Omid/Hope is immensely powerful.

Other favs:

The Fires Of Ork - Fires Of Ork 1/2 (Geir Jenssen and Pete Namlook. Nuff said. "In Heaven" uses female vocals in a way I've yet to see bettered in EDM so far)

Steve Stoll - Earthling (beatless techno pretty much. Steve utilizes the mechanical, computerized esthetics techno is reknowned for, just without any beats. Quite interesting results.)

Anthony Rother - Elixir Of Life (Art Is A Technology on Stahl Industries is better, but all of Anthony's ambient offerings are worth looking into)

Krystian Shek - Eisblumen (Icy cold, deep techno. Quite a different face from someone who made Nothing To Hold on Lupp.)

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I have only 3 releases from that label and my fav out of them is '4 Voice - 4 Voice II', a fantastic, harmonic combination of old skool trance and warm ambient soundscapes. The other 2 being 'Namlook - Namlook XIV' and 'Ambient Compilation 2'. The latter has some wonderful tunes but none of them really stand out to make it a truly great CD. Namlook XIV isn't even close Pete's best releases either.. too cold and strange for me but still worth owning like i think all the Fax +.. relases would be.

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Well, I do not know about most of +FAX releases, but I HAVE heard Dark Side Of The Moog X By Peter Namlook & Klaus Schulze, and the 6th track is nothing short of a masterpiece.

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i wonder if the low amount of replies is due to the limited nature of +FAX's releases or due to lack of knowledge on the part of TA.

where are all the 'ambient' freaks?

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Originally posted by Psy-T where are all the 'ambient' freaks?

Listening to slow Solar Stone remixes.

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I also have a few Atom Heart ones on my wantlist which I've heard only a few tracks from as it is indeed a formidable task in trying to find them.

Im not familiar with them, but I soon will be

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Originally posted by Psy-T i wonder if the low amount of replies is due to the limited nature of +FAX's releases or due to lack of knowledge on the part of TA. where are all the 'ambient' freaks?

Due to the limited nature of Fax releases I haven't heard much, even though I've been trying to find something. They just don't sell any Fax stuff anywhere near Iceland.
The litle I've heard are mostly Dark Side of the Moog releases. I liked those very much. I once saw a video on MTV for Silence's "Trip", it was awesome, been searching for the song since with no luck (even though it was re-released on Rising High). I also really wanna see that video again.
I've had more luck finding stuff from their sublabel, Rather Interesting. It's rather interesting, to say the least.

hard to find material... hence low replies... some great stuff though!

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i have two fax releases: Xangadix & The MS-Series. Xangadix had been an obsession with me. MS is ok. My story about Xangadix in another thread says it all for me. I think most of the releases were limited to 1000 copies.

CDs you are hunting for

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what a timely thread for me cos i just received in the mail a CD i've been after for 10 years! Xangadix - Xangadix ten years ago while i was listening to a local dj's electronic music show, he played a tune that just got seared into my brain. unfortunately i never recorded it nor wrote down the artist or track name. i had a rough idea of what name sounded like but no idea on how to spell it. shortly thereafter i moved away. over the intervening years, i searched the web and record stores, but with no clear spelling, label or sample, my searches were always fruitless. i also tried to locate the dj to get a lead, but even that effort was a dead-end because he just completely disappeared not long after i moved away and i only had his on-air name. about one month ago, i spent some time searching for various spellings of what i thought the artist's name might be, and i finally found an artist that sounded remotely to it. i wasn't even sure it was the correct artist. to my unhappy surprise, i learned that the artist only released 1000 copies of the CD that might contain the composition i was after. in any case, i wasn't sure if this was even the correct artist or CD i was after. again, it seemed hopeless. undettered, i began to look for the artist and the CD and to my surprise, i found a brand new one for sale. i would have gladly paid over 200 euros for it, even though i still was unsure about it, but got it for an amazingly cheap 20 euros. after two anxious weeks waiting, i finally received it in the mail several days ago. needless to say, i played it right away and it was the right one! its so bizarre that the CD is in absolutely mint condition. any shrink-wrapping it may have had at one time must have disintegrated years ago. although the cover bears the marks of shelving, the sleeve is unopened and the CD is like glass. even the thick plastic cover is cool. apparently its been lying around in some warehouse or on some store shelf for last 10 years. ahh life is soooo good. there are about three others that i'm after but i'm not mentioning them (sorry, i don't need the competition)

i'm putting it on right now. it builds up for 2 minutes and the melody just drops in at 2:40.

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Last edited by Spacey Orange on Jun-24-2005 at 07:54

actually most were limited to 500 at one time. Pete Namlook does'nt care how many people get his work anyways.