2350.org - Compilation - A View to a Chill

Compilation - A View to a Chill - PK 08/08 Release Date: 26 February 2001 Limitation: 2000 EMC - Instruktion 0.09 Namlook XVI - Entity 2840 2.53 Namlook XV - The Real World 7.59 Namlook XIV - Go No Go (edit) 9.12 Namlook XIII - Deadly Mission (Part VI) 1.52 Namlook XII - Live at Lovefield Festival (Part X) 3.14 Namlook XI - Passing Airwhales (Part X) 5.00 Namlook Atom - Subharmonic Atoms 4.46 Namlook X - Monolith (excerpt) 7.23 Namlook IX - The Gate to the Milky Way (excerpt) 4.39 Namlook VIII - Blow the Fuse (excerpt) 3.34 Namlook VII - Subharmonic Interference (excerpt) 4.54 Namlook VI - The Caves of Cubik (excerpt) 2.16 Namlook V - Reality (excerpt) 2.25 Namlook IV - Power Supply (excerpt) 3.38 Namlook III - Aliens in my Suitcase (Intruder 6) 2.19 Namlook II - The Dutch Side of the Milky Way (excerpt) 4.21 Namlook I - Astrogator (excerpt) 8.46 all tracks written by Pete Namlook

Almost 80 minutes packed with tracks or excerpts from Namlook I-XV, Namlook 'Atom' and EMC (only some intro secs.). I'm a bit disappointed as I expected a more creative handling of the material - if at all, the crossfade between two tracks is only a second or two. Clever layering of tonal and atonal tracks would have been cool, and the exact (reversed) chronological line-up of the tracks doesn't really make musical sense anyway. I prefer to listen to the tracks in their intended context of the original albums. So this release works more as an introduction for Namlook newbies.

(review by Wolfgang Röttger)