Lounge may refer to:

In architecture:

• Airport lounge, private waiting area offered by airlines to special customers or to those who pay an extra fee
• Living room, erroneously known as lounge room, a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities
• Lounge, a public waiting area provided with seating as in a hotel; a lobby
• Bar (establishment), also known as a lounge in some cases
• Bar (counter), a section of a restaurant, typically with unreserved seating

In music:

• Lounge music, a type of easy-listening music
• Lounge singer, singers in the lounges and bars of hotels and casinos, or at standalone piano bars
• The Lounge (radio network), a satellite service distributed by Dial Global

In other fields:

• Lounge car, railroad car where riders can purchase food and drinks
• Lounge suit, another name for an informal suit, see Suit (clothing)
• Chaise longue, an upholstered couch in the shape of a chair

See also[link]

• Lounging (disambiguation), the name of several things

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Pete Namlook (born 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann [ˈku�lma�n] in Frankfurt, Germany) is an ambient and electronic-music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversees. Inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, he also composes his own albums.

Overview[link]

As of August 2005, Namlook and company had released 135 albums (excluding re-releases, vinyl singles, compilations of existing material, and FAX releases beginning with PS, in which he personally is not involved in the music making).

Pete Namlook has released many solo albums, as well as collaboration albums with notable artists such as Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Geir Jenssen (alias Biosphere), Atom Heart, Richie Hawtin, Tetsu Inoue, Dr. Atmo, and Tying Tiffany.

“Namlook� is “Koolman� spelled backwards, which is the German pronunciation of his real name.

Projects[link]

These are all of Namlook's project series on the FAX label, with the number of albums in each series. For one-shot albums, the title is given without a number after it.

(Note: These are only the CD releases. Vinyl singles and EPs are not included. There are no full length LPs on FAX.)

Solo

• 4Voice (3 releases; 4Voice with Maik Maurice as "arrangement assistant" on two tracks; 4Voice III with Marc Romboy on one track)
• Air (5 releases)
• Atom
• Electronic Music Center
• Music for Ballet
• Namlook (25 releases)
• Season's Greetings (4 releases; 1 compilation titled The Four Seasons)
• Silence (3 releases of 5 total; first two are with Dr. Atmo)
• Syn (2 releases)
• Music for Babies

with Dr. Atmo

• Escape
• Silence (2 releases of 5 total; latter three are Namlook solo)

with Atom Heart

• Jet Chamber (5 releases)

with Karl Berger

• Polytime

with Dandy Jack

• Amp (2 releases)
• Silent Music

with DJ Brainwave

• Limelight

with DJ Criss

• Deltraxx
• Sequential (one track is Namlook with Tetsu Inoue, not DJ Criss)

with DJ Dag

• Adlernebel

with Pascal F.E.O.S.

• Hearts of Space
• Minimalistic Source

with Gaudi

• Re:sonate

with Rob Gordon

• Ozoona

with Robert Görl

• Elektro (2 releases)

with Richie Hawtin

• From Within (3 releases)

with Hubertus Held

• Pete Namlook/Hubertus Held

with Higher Intelligence Agency

• S.H.A.D.O (2 releases)

with Tetsu Inoue

• 62 Eulengasse
• 2350 Broadway (4 releases)
• Sequential (only one track)
• Shades of Orion (3 releases)
• Time²

with Geir Jenssen

• The Fires of Ork (2 releases)

with Bill Laswell

• The Dark Side of the Moog (4 releases of 11 total also with Klaus Schulze; other seven are only Namlook and Schulze)
• Outland (5 releases)
• Psychonavigation (5 releases)
• Outer Dark

with Mixmaster Morris

• Dreamfish (2 releases)

with David Moufang

• Koolfang (3 releases)
• Move D / Namlook (23 releases)

with New Composers

• Planetarium (2 releases)
• Russian Spring

with Burhan Öçal

• Sultan (3 releases)

with Jochem Paap

• pp-nmlk

with Peter Prochir

• Miles Apart
• Possible Gardens

with Ludwig Rehberg

• The Putney (2 releases)

with Robert Sattler

• Kooler

with Klaus Schulze

• The Dark Side of the Moog (11 releases)

with Jonah Sharp

• Alien Community (2 releases)
• Wechselspannung (2 releases)

with Wolfram Spyra

• Virtual Vices (6 releases)

with Steve Stoll

• Hemisphere

with Charles Uzzell-Edwards

• A New Consciousness (2 releases)
• Create (2 releases)

with Lorenzo Montanà

• Labirynth (3 releases)

Yesterday & Tomorrow[link]

This was a short-lived sub-label of FAX that was created to showcase a more classical side of ambient music. On these releases he goes by Peter Kuhlmann, his real name, rather than Pete Namlook.

• Passion, with Jürgen Rehberg
• Wandering Soul, with Alban Gerhardt
• The Sunken Road, with Jürgen Rehberg and Lucia Mense

External links[link]

General

• Namlook.de - Official Pete Namlook Web site
• Peter Namlook on Myspace
• Pete Namlook photographies at Discogs (1) - Discogs (3) - Analogue-Alien (center)

Discographies

• Pete Namlook at AMG
• Pete Namlook discography at Discogs
• Pete Namlook discography at MusicBrainz
• Discography of his FAX recordings

Misc

• Samples and quotes in FAX albums (including many Namlook) at FAX Galleria
• Fax Label review site

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Asher Roth
Background information
Birth name	Asher Paul Roth
Born	(1985-08-11) August 11, 1985 (age 26)
Origin	Morrisville, Pennsylvania, US
Genres	hip hop
Occupations	Rapper
Years active	2005-present
Labels	Schoolboy, SRC, Def Jam
Associated acts	Nottz Raw, All City Chess Club
Website	asherrothmusic.com

Asher Paul Roth (born August 11, 1985) is an American rapper.

Early life[link]

Asher Roth was born and raised in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, a small town about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.^[1][2] His mother, Elizabeth (née McConnell), is a yoga instructor, and his father, David Roth, is the executive director of a design firm.^[3][4][5][6] His mother has Scottish ancestry and his paternal grandfather was Jewish.^[7][8] Roth does not consider himself Jewish, although his name often leads people to believe he is.^[9] He attended Pennsbury High School. Growing up, Roth was exposed to little hip hop in his family, with his parents preferring "The Temptations, Earth, Wind & Fire ... Bruce Springsteen and Dire Straits."^[10] According to Roth:

The first CD I ever bought was Dave Matthews Band's Crash ...That is how suburban I am...I finally got into hip hop in '98 when I heard the Annie sample with Jay-Z....When I wrote my 'A Milli' freestyle, that was me listening to 10 years of hip hop and not relating to it at all. Like, Damn I don’t sell coke. Damn, I don’t have cars or 25-inch rims. I don't have guns. I finally got to a point where I had the confidence to do this thing myself, and I was making music for me. And it turns out, a lot of people feel the same way I do.^[11]

Asher has also stated that:

Hip-hop has always been very influential in the ‘burbs, [but] it’s just a matter of where we could relate to it. You find a lot of kids that are really confused. You look at them and they’re dressed out of character. They don’t look right. I figured out, I don’t have to dress this way, but I can still love hip-hop.^[12]

After graduating high school, Roth entered West Chester University and became an Elementary Education major, while continuing to record verses over other people's beats. During sophomore year, Roth posted some of his verses on his MySpace page and sent a Friend Request to Scooter Braun, an Atlanta-based promoter and former VP of Marketing for Jermaine Dupri's So So Def. One week after speaking to Braun, Roth flew down to Atlanta and was immediately signed by Braun, who subsequently became his manager.^[10]

Asher Roth cites Jay-Z and Eminem among his influences in hip hop, mostly by Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life".^[13]

Roth's lyrics characteristically center around what have been called "middle-class minutiae, some also consider them to be a joke."^[11] Roth's song "I Love College" is about partying after a visit to Penn State, but includes fatuous lyrics such as "I can get pizza a dollar a slice"^[11] that have been identified as "far from threatening".

Music career[link]

After linking up with Braun, Roth moved to Atlanta to pursue a hip-hop career full-time. As industry buzz grew, Roth was courted by a number of labels, including SRC, Def Jam, Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic.^[14] Roth would eventually sign a joint venture between Braun's Schoolboy Music and Steve Rifkind, chairman of SRC/Universal Records. On June 13, 2008, Roth put out his first professional release, the Don Cannon and DJ Drama-helmed The Greenhouse Effect mixtape, via the Internet. This resulted in Roth being the second white rapper to be featured on Drama and Cannon’s Gangsta Grillz series.

[edit] 2009: Asleep in the Bread Aisle

Roth started recording a full album in late 2008. It was completed in 2009. The first single was "I Love College" which received many hits across North America. His second single was "Lark on my Go-Kart". After the two singles were released, Roth's studio album Asleep in the Bread Aisle was released on April 20, 2009. He supported his album with a nationwide tour with B.o.B. and Kid Cudi. Asher also joined Blink-182 in the second half of their reunion tour in the fall of 2009.

Roth was featured on the cover of XXL magazine’s annual Top 10 Freshmen: Hip-Hop’s Class ’09 issue.

[edit] 2010-present: The Rawth EP and Is This Too Orange?

After finishing touring in 2009 and releasing a second mixtape, Seared Foie Gras with Quince and Cranberry,^[15] Roth began working on his second studio album. From his friend Boyder's YouTube page, he has been seen working with producers Pharrell Williams and Nottz Raw. While working with Nottz, the two of them decided to collaborate on a project together, due to having a number of records rejected by the label due to sampling & copyright issues.^[16] The end result was an eight track EP, solely produced by Nottz, entitled The Rawth EP. The EP, which features appearances from Colin Munroe, D.A. (of Chester French), Rhymefest and Kardinal Offishall, was released December 27, 2010.^[17] Roth released and promoted "G.R.I.N.D (Get Ready It's a New Day)", the first single off of his upcoming second album, by traveling to different radio stations around the country. Roth revealed four tracks on his upcoming album in a XXL article. One features Game, one is produced by Swizz Beatz and another is titled "Run it Back".^[10] On May 25, it was announced that Roth's second studio album would no longer be called The Spaghetti Tree.^[18] His song with Akon titled "Last Man Standing" is featured on the soundtrack for the videogame Madden NFL 12. In an interview with Rikki Martinez of Power 106 he announced he will be releasing a mixtape titled Pabst & Jazz and revealed the title of his upcoming second album, Is This Too Orange?.^[19] On November 11th, 2011 he released the first offering off Pabst & Jazz, a song titled "Common Knowledge". In November 2011, Roth signed to Def Jam Recordings after several years been signed to SRC Records.

Personal life[link]

Asher Roth is open about his use of cannabis. As stated in an interview conducted and filmed by DJ Vlad, Roth stated his views about the legalization of marijuana and the use of cigarettes:

Cigarettes don't do anything for you except kill you ... I honestly don't believe [marijuana] is the gateway drug, because I use it and I've never done anything else ... I'm trying to be open about my "pot smoking" ...^[20]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Asleep in the Bread Aisle (2009)
• Is This Too Orange? (2012)

Mixtapes[link]

• The GreenHouse Effect (2008)
• Seared Foie Gras with Quince and Cranberry (2010)
• Pabst & Jazz (2011)

EPs[link]

• Just Listen (2005)
• The Rawth EP (With Nottz) (2010)

Awards[link]

• MTV Video Music Awards
  • Best New Artist ("I Love College") [Nominated]
  • Best Hip Hop Video ("I Love College") [Nominated]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Office page at Facebook