Various - The Ambient Cookbook

Label: Fax +49-69/450464
Catalog#: PKPWPS 3
Format: 4 x CD, Limited Edition, Compilation
Country:Germany
Released:20 Mar 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Ambient
Notes:Limitation: 1000

A mixed selection of the finest, most soothing ambient releases on the Fax record label at the time. Features tracks from not only Pete Namlook, but other major influences such as Tetsu Inoue, Jonah Sharp, etc.

The booklet has a cookbook feeling to it, and has many delicious recipes to cook to while listening to the music (but only as a suggestion).
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Tracklisting:

CD1-1 Sad World Terasury (10:10)
CD1-2 Tetsu Inoue Holy Dance (15:36)
CD1-3 Dr. Atmo & Oliver Lieb Music For Films (Movement 5) (13:08)
CD1-4 From Within Sad Alliance (12:26)
CD1-5 Silence Heaven (aw-Cut) (6:54)
CD1-6 I.F. Kisy Loa (14:09)
CD1-7 4Voice 4Vl Outro (2:24)
CD2-1 Zenith (6) Electro Dreams (11:34)
CD2-2 Air (2) Travelling Without Moving (Trip #9) (8:23)
CD2-3 Transonic Time Span Zero (7:11)
CD2-4 Putney, The Angel Circle (12:38)
CD2-5 Shades Of Orion Biotrip (24:10)
CD2-6 DATacide Data Haiku (6:23)
CD3-1 Electro Harmonix Floating Sync (11:11)
CD3-2 Namlook* The Gate To The Milky Way (Excerpt From Namlook IX) (8:26)
CD3-3 David Reeves Astralbohrer (5:48)
CD3-4 Chris Meloche Loop 6 (Excerpt) (10:00)
CD3-5 Whole Traffic, The Talk (16:47)
CD3-6 Daniel Pemberton Antartica (6:34)
CD3-7 Aerial Service Area Another Green Airport (15:03)
CD4-1 Pete Namlook Music For Ballet (Excerpt) (7:27)
CD4-2 Transonic Whirlpool (Slow Spiral Of Clouds) Excerpt (6:50)
CD4-3 David Moufang In / Out (15:58)
CD4-4 XJacks Celophane (10:59)
CD4-5 Wechselspannung Wechselspannung (Excerpt) (6:40)
CD4-6 Tetsu Inoue Chill In Chill Out (12:56)
CD4-7 Namlook* Subharmonic Interference (Excerpt From Namlook VII) (11:24)
User Reviews:
alcheme, Aug 21, 2003

This compilation represents the golden age of ambient when it reached a peak of beautification, soulful analog and structured rhythms....

The CookBook is a must. But oh so RARE! Too bad mine was stolen in 1997.

~Shane

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