Exploring the Psychedelic Landscape

The late Frankfurt producer Pete Namlook was one of the most important connectors in cosmic electronic music. Taking copious inspiration from earlier German experimenters of the Krautrock / Kosmische era (including Klaus Schulz, who he collaborated with), he joined the dots into the nascent Frankfurt trance scene and outward to other electronic mavericks worldwide. His collaboration list is dizzying – the mighty Bill Laswell, Biosphere, Gaudi, Richie Hawtin, Tetsu Inoue, Atom™, Mixmaster Morris to name just a few – but whether making ambient, techno, trance or uncategorisable downtempo his quality and mind-bending tendencies rarely if ever dipped. Some of his greatest work was done with fellow German David “Move D” Moufang, and this first collaborative album of many does exactly what it says on the tin, glooping and swooping over the deepest of deep house pulses.