Namlook Interview Final Questions - February 2006

Here are the final 15 most voted for questions out of the 33 nominations as voted for by the members of the 2350.org FAX mailing list.

Notes: Anyone who voted for more than 10 questions and did not submit an updated list to me had only the first 10 questions they listed counted. I have decided that Jackthetab was right in that two of the iTunes questions can/should be combined into one question because the 2nd part is sort of a corollary and garnered a few votes. I have left off the last iTune question part because it got almost no votes and isn't quite as linked to the original question. I think 15 questions is reasonable out of the 33 submitted and it just so happened that the top after the 15th most popular question none of the questions achieved more than 4 votes. I think we should tell Pete that he can check out all the nominations and if he is amused by a question or two that didn't make the final cut he can feel free to answer them.

I want to thank all who voted, Peter for taking the time to answer the questions, and Dave @ FAX-Label USA for helping us out.

The answers from Peter are now available here.

Listed in order of popularity, with the most popular questions first:

1. What has been your most challenging project (whether collaboration or individual work) and why?
2. What musical influence(s) have inspired you and your music and its direction over the years.
3. Do you have any current favourite electronic (and non-electronic) artists?
4. 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?
5. What are your three favourite releases on the entire Fax Label?
6. Have you released almost everything you've ever recorded, or have you got tons of unreleased stuff lying around?
7. 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?
8. How do you think you have "evolved musically" since you began recording?
9. Do you ever listen to your own stuff?
10. 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?
11. Who would you most like to work with?
12. What are your three favourite sublabel releases?
13. 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?
14. What led to your decision to release Compilation 5 and the 'Rare Vinyl Mixes' tracks as iTunes exclusives? Do you foresee more iTunes-exclusive releases in the future?
15. 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?