Paul Lawler (U.K.) for Prog Electronic

Paul Lawler, as well as releasing music under his birth name, is also known as Max Van Richter and Arcane (not the Arcane who we already have in Heavy Prog, it must be said!)

 

All his albums are on bandcamp, though it is not clear from the list on the right hand side of each page which ones belong to each of his pseudonyms - perhaps it is best to visit his website: http://www.paullawler.org/ to see which ones belong to whom (though RYM also lists the ones applicable each of his alter egos if you follow this link: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/paul_lawler). Much of the music seems to follow the traditional Berlin School approach, though there is an element of the more upbeat Düsseldorf School doctrine in a number of the tracks too.

 

A hell of a lot of material to plough through, and how exactly he would be added, having two pseudonyms, under one of which he has released as many albums (7) as he has as 'himself'  I don't really know, but this seems a pretty decent suggestion on the whole to me.

 

All you need to do now, Sve, is to edit the topic title so that it reads Paul Lawler  & not Paul Lowler...

However.

There seems to be quite a lot of Kitaro styled ambient/chill -out/downtempo stuff released under his own name as opposed to his two aliases, so I'm not really sure about this one.

 

Here's all the YT's that come up on the first page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now on to Arcane. This is a definite yes. Great retro TD sound. It's worth mentioning a good many of their labelmates are here, such as Mark Shreeve, Airsculpture, and Radio Massacre International.

 

 

 

 

 

And now to Max Van Richter. This one also gets a 'yes' from me, same as the above. Also interesting little story to this one. Max Van Richter was supposedly (at first) a second member of Arcane when it was originally conceived, but then supposedly became "a victim of a mysterious spontaneous human combustion in his home, his charred remains found holding a badly damaged demo tape." which Lawler then decided to turn into the album 'Resurrection' and release it under Max Van Richter as a hommage. This was all completely made though by Paul though.