FAX +49-69/450464

FAX +49-69/450464
Founded	1992 (1992)
Founder	Peter Kuhlmann
Defunct	2012 (2012)
Status	Inactive
Genre	Ambient, Techno, Trance
Country of origin	Germany
Location	Traben-Trarbach

FAX +49-69/450464 (also known as simply Fax or Fax Label^[1][2]) was a German record label founded in Frankfurt^[3] in 1992 by ambient musician Peter Kuhlmann^[4] (who recorded as Pete Namlook, a phonetic inversion of his surname). It was originally devoted to Namlook's collaborations with other German electronic artists, primarily in hard trance and hardcore^[5] styles, but soon expanded with the debut of the ambient Silence and Air projects;^[1][6] consequently, ambient and downtempo music became the predominant focus of the label.^[6]

The main label had three principal subdivisions, indicated by the first two letters of a given record's catalog number.^[4]

• PK was typically for Namlook's solo releases.

• PW (Peter's World) was for collaborations with international artists – including Turkish folk musician Burhan Öçal as Sultan, English DJ Mixmaster Morris as Dreamfish and Japanese ambient artist Tetsu Inoue as Shades of Orion, 2350 Broadway and 62 Eulengasse.

• PS (Peter's Sub-label) released records by other artists^[1][4]—without Namlook—of diverse nationalities and idioms, including US guitarist Robert Musso, bassist Bill Laswell, German techno producer David Moufang (aka Move D), and Canadian sound artist Chris Meloche.^[4]

• PI (Peter's iTunes) released exclusives for iTunes, such as Music for Babies.

In addition to these divisions, there were three sub-labels: Yesterday & Tomorrow (YT), Ambient World (AW) and Rather Interesting (RI).

• The Yesterday & Tomorrow sub-label issued a series of albums juxtaposing ambient and the "ambient side" of classical chamber music^[7] (which was unofficially discontinued in 1995).
• Ambient World was dedicated to the re-issuing of otherwise out-of-print Fax discs, particularly those from the 1990s.^[8]
• Rather Interesting was a label maintained by German IDM musician Uwe Schmidt, with the vast majority of its catalog being his solo material, issued under a multitude of aliases.^[1][9]

Until the creation of the Ambient World sub-label and the subsequent release of its discography on the iTunes Store,^[10] all FAX records were issued in extremely limited quantities, with typically 500–1000 pressings depending on the project.^[1][4] This resulted in FAX originals fetching high prices on eBay and other online auction Web sites.^[1]

Label founder Pete Namlook died of a heart attack on 8 November 2012,^[11] although no official statement regarding the label's future was ever made.^[12][13][14]

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• The Fax Label page on discogs