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Though it may be not known to the averagely interested listener, R.I. is a sublabel of the FAX label. There is an interview with Pete Namlook available here that contains this information.
Labelcode LC 6269
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Discography

Releases:
none Atom™ About Pears And Apples (File, AAC, Single) 2006
RI 023 Flextone Flextone (CD, Album, Ltd) 1994
RI 023 CL Flextone 10th Anniversary Box (2xCD, Album, Ltd, RM) 2004
RI 023 S Victor Sol Paranoid (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 023 V Flextone Flextone (2x12", Ltd, Album) 1994
RI 024 Dots Dots (CD, Album, Ltd) 1994
RI 024 CL Dots 10th Anniversary Box II (2xCD, Album, Ltd, RM) 2004
RI 025 VSVN Very Synthetic Virtual Noise (CD, Album, Ltd) 1994
RI 025 CL Atom Heart Volume 1 - The Singles 1991-2000 (2xCD, Ltd, RM) 2007
RI 025 V VSVN Very Synthetic Virtual Noise (2xLP, Album, Ltd) 1994
RI 026 DATacide Flowerhead (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 027 Interactive Music Interactive Music (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 028 Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance Mu (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 029 Semiacoustic Nature Semiacoustic Nature (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 030 Atom Heart (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 031 Silver Sound 60 (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 032 BASS Binary Amplified Super Stereo (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 033 Various Real Intelligence (CD, Ltd) 1995
RI 033 V Various Real Intelligence - Rather Interesting Compilation (2x12", Ltd) 1995
RI 034 Dandy Jack Dandy Jack And The Cosmic Trousers (CD, Album, Ltd) 1995
RI 034 V Dandy Jack Dandy Jack And The Cosmic Trousers (12") 1995
RI 035 Machine Paisley Machine Paisley (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 036 Brown Brown (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 037 HAT Tokyo - Frankfurt - New York (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 038 Mono™ Mono™ (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 039 +N Built (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 040 DATacide Ondas (CD, Album, Ltd) 1996
RI 041 Various Real Intelligence II (CD, Ltd) 1996
RI 042 Dandy Jack Dandy Jack And The Plastic Woman (CD, Album, Ltd) 1997
RI 043 Lisa Carbon Trio De Janeiro (CD, Album, Ltd) 1997
RI 044 Señor Coconut Gran Baile Con... (CD, Album, Ltd) 1997
RI 045 Fonosandwich Fonosandwich (CD, Album, Ltd) 1997
RI 046 Roger Tubesound Ensemble, The Pentatonic Surprise (CD, Album, Ltd) 1997
RI 047 Schnittstelle Schnittstelle (CD, Album, Ltd) 1998
RI 048 Naturalist Naturalist (CD, Album, Ltd) 1998
RI 049 Dropshadow Disease Dropshadow Disease (CD, Album, Ltd) 1998
RI 050 Various Real Intelligence III (CD, Ltd) 1998
RI 051 DOS Tracks :) (CD, Album, Ltd) 1999
RI 052 Erik Satin Light Music (CD, Album, Ltd) 1999
RI 053 Los Sampler's Descargas (CD, Album, Ltd) 1999
RI 054 Atom™ XXX (CD, Album, Ltd) 2000
RI 055 Bund Deutscher Programmierer Stoffwechsel (CD, Album, Ltd) 2000
RI 056 Midisport 14 Footballers In Milkchocolate (CD, Album, Ltd) 2001
RI 057 Disk Orchestra, The [K] (CD) 2001
RI 058 Roger Tubesound Ensemble, The Plays Just Notes (CD) 2002
RI 059 Various Real Intelligence IV (CD, Ltd) 2002
RI 060 Stereonerds, The HD Endless (CD, Album, Ltd) 2003
RI 061 Lisa Carbon Standards (CD, Album) 2003
RI 062 CMYK CMYK (CD, Ltd) 2005
RI 063 Los Negritos Speed-Merengue Mega-Mix 2005 (CD) 2005
RI 064 Atom™ Son Of A Glitch (CD, Album) 2007
RI 065 Atom™ Muster (CD, Album, Ltd) 2009
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by mizukagami Aug 31, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Across the R.I. board, Uwe Schmidt demonstrates his ability to entertain the listener through innovation. This proven master mixologist is, indeed, skilled enough to blend together the hard and the soft. Most notably is 'Aliastructure' of 'Machine Paisley.' But, at times, Uwe tends to only skim the surface rather than plunge the listener into deep waters of refreshing sound. From delicious ambient cappuccinos and sweet sour apple acid flavors to downright annoying garbage which sounds like a harddrive hocking up a dry heave, you still don't dare to hit that stop button. Even if you don't like all the work released on this label, you'll still find yourself comin' back to those albums because, well, this stuff is just so rather interesting.
Review by ongo Jul 24, 2003

Always a step ahead of the game , atom heart delivers is many facets on his own imprint
all the releases are just so dope
However 97% of the catalogue is only available on cd and most of them extremly limited
for all you eperimental , IDM freaks out there this is a must for you trust me on this one this label lives up to it's name
Review by dexterfeng Jun 23, 2003
Boutique/vanity label in operation since 1994 for Uwe Schmidt aka Atom™, aka Atom Heart, aka, Erik Satin, aka Los Samplers, aka Schnittstelle, aka Roger Tubesound, aka Fonosandwich, aka Dropshadow Disease, aka Senor Coconut, aka Brown, aka Mono™, aka BASS, aka Semiaccoustic Nature, aka Machine Paisley, aka Interactive Music, aka Naturalist, aka Silver Sound, aka ;), aka Midisport, aka, Bund Duetscher Programmierer, aka, VSVN, aka Flextone, aka Dots, etc. Somewhat prolific (understatement) with almost 40 full length albums released on RI and almost all the albums composed produced etc and mucked about with by Uwe. At one time an almost monthly schedule of full length releases and still for a basically one man operation with such prolific rate of output, there is a surprisingly low amount of clunkers in the lot of his output.
A few exceptions in solo output include the Stereonerds (debated), Dandy Jack, and the various guests including Tetsue Innoue, Harry Hosono, Chris and Cosey, Victor Sol, Lisa Carbon, Pete Namlook, Macintalk and more!
Everyone should have an alias and Uwe has more than you probably ever will.
Watch, listen and learn. Deadpan German antics equals strange guys with funny names alluding to someone else that doesn't polish the black keys and seven guys who use no name disks and 8 bit samplers. Albums have been about Photoshop filters; Kai Krause, and brushing your teeth, and the liberal sprinkling of puns and backhanded dry humour nature of nearly everything that comes out a great amount of debate has come about concerning who's Uwe and who's not Uwe when it comes to the plethora of aliases Uwe records under and the variety of roles Uwe/Atom™ has his hands in on nearly every release from the graphics to the executive production duties. With a clean break from Germany and the teutonic heritage and the rest of europes dancefloor leaning interests somewhere around the time (1997) that Lisa Carbons Trio de Janero and the first Senor Coconut release. Uwe with his new studio Mira Musica in Santiago de Chile was free to explore the rich heritage and vendors bins of musics of the area and respective regions. With the rich history of german ex pats running about the region, the subsequent recordings veered completely off the map of most peoples expectations of electronic music and remain highly highly sought after due to the general release quantity being limited to one edition of 1000 pressings. As of this writing very very few subsequent licensing and no repress mentionings those interested are left fending for themselves and hitting up friends, MTM and Emusic.com for accessibility to these wonderful, strange and as the labels namesake suggests rather interesting releases.
Each album promises years from now to baffle and confound your children as teenagers raiding your cd racks when you get about to having them.