What do the circles/colors mean?
Although the “circle” album cover design has been slowly phased out, older releases followed a “code” for the label design which was as follows: On the CD sleeve or record label there is a large circle with a smaller circle in the upper right hand corner. Depending on the type of music on the album, the large circle would vary in color. For example, ambient releases are a light blue color while breakbeat gets an orange color. A full explanation of the Fax color spectrum can be found at the official Fax website. The few exceptions to this rule are the World and Sublabel series, which have a black circle with some kind of artwork in the large circle, the Namlook live albums which follow no real pattern, and various releases like the original release of Air II which has the circle design set into a photgraph of an astronaut. The second, smaller circle usually contains some sort of unique characteristic or color to identify it as a particular release in the Fax catalog. The exceptions agai
