Namlook Interview Question Nominations

Submit your question nominations by emailing interview at tecnopolis dot ca or posting to the faxlist on 2350.org.

Nominations accepted until Jan 14, 2006.

Voting will commence on Jan 14 through Jan 19 23:59:59, 2006.

Each listmember can pick their 10 favorite questions.

The most popular 10 or 15 (depending on number and quality of nominiations) will be submitted to Namlook.

Voting is now closed. Please see the final winning questions here.

Current Nominations:

1. What led to your decision to release Compilation 5 and the 'Rare Vinyl Mixes' tracks as iTunes exclusives?
2. Do you foresee more iTunes-exclusive releases in the future?
3. Do you have plans to make the FAX releases on iTunes available in all countries that iTunes serves?
4. What is your take on the whole Dr Atmo "Man Made Motion" vs Tetsu Inoue "Slow and Low" debacle? Was it a mistake, a joke, or just pure evil?
5. Would you ever work with Dr Atmo again?
6. What are your three favourite releases on the entire Fax Label?
7. What are your three favourite sublabel releases?
8. Do you have any current favourite electronic (and non-electronic) artists?
9. Do you foresee yourself ever "retiring" from music making, or will you go on as long as you can? Can the Fax label survive without you releasing material?
10. Do you believe that your current reduced output compared to the early days has resulted in a noticable change in your output in any way, be it quality, style or whatever?
11. How do you think you have "evolved musically" since you began recording?
12. Have you released almost everything you've ever recorded, or have you got tons of unreleased stuff lying around?
13. What has been your most challenging project (whether collaboration or individual work) and why?
14. We all know that you feel that there is not a big market for you to do live shows ( at least outside of germany ), would it be feasable to do live sessions broadcasted over internet ( audio and video ) ?
15. Are there earlier Fax artists (on the PK, PW, PS) that only released one or two tracks ( or releases ) that you feel should have continued making music ( at least for those that did not continue, either on the fax label or other labels ) ?
16. Was there any particular inspiration behind "Picnic" on Silence V, or were you just thinking of a generic picnic?
17. Is the guitar riff on the first track of Adlernebel a sample from an early 70s song by America, or is it Pete on his own guitar?
18. Who would you most like to work with?
19. Do you ever listen to your own stuff?
20. A number of FAX releases will have a magical, usually ambient, moment where the sounds meld into something perfect which causes "brain tingle", for lack of a better term, in the listener. When creating the music, are these moments readily apparent to you as well? Are they purposefully created or something that just happens, or is it something that is not discernable until later when listening to the end product?
21. Describe the usual collaboration methodology. For example, how are ideas / sounds / music passed back and forth? How many times are they passed back and forth until completion?
22. What do you think of doing a 5.1 channel surround sound DVD-audio release? Do you think the 5.1 would add to or detract from your music?
23. Music To Films is an alternate soundtrack to 'Koyaanisqatsi'. However, obviously the CD length is less than the 87 minute film lenghth, so it would seem that the CD version is incomplete. Does a complete version exist that could act as a true alternate soundtrack? If so, is there any chance of releasing it?
24. Did you get a Buddha Machine, and if so how many, what colors, and would you consider creating loops for one?
25. What musical influence(s) have inspired you and your music and its direction over the years.
26. Namlook III seems to be one of the hardest discs for people to get into, at least with your solo projects. What are you feelings about this album?
27. What are your views on music and drugs going hand in hand?
28. FAX releases are often real "growers": one has to give them time to grow on oneself before discovering the true hidden beauty and complexity. Do you agree with this statement, and, if so, is it intentional? Do you prefer it this way or would you prefer to release music that immediately reveals all and leaves nothing for later discovery?
29. If you had to assign a percentage figure to the importance of commercial viability vs. artistic/self-indulgence value to your recent and future releases, what would it be. For example: 30% commcercial, 70% art.
30. How come the release schedule of Fax has quieted down in recent years? Particularly the sublabel, as I'd have thought as the label got more well known it'd be easier to find candidates for sublabel releases than around 1994/5, when there were loads despite the label being relatively new. Is this indicative of a drop-off in the standard of electronica?
31. Why did you do the rap remixes (Xavier Naidoo, Sabrina Setlur, etc)?
32. How do you light a cigarrette "old fashioned style"?
33. In a previous interview you stated: "To just play back compositions live is not interesting for me. Playing live was for me since the start of FAX, composing live.. this is the real thing." Can you expound this topic, in terms of approaches and/or techniques you use both in the studio and when performing live.