Music Is Intelligence (WMMS)

German label Music Is Intelligence, also known as WMMS (short for their international distribution company World  Music Messenger Service), was one of the daring indie labels that kept progressive rock alive in the 1990's. Formed by Peter Wustmann in the late 1980's, this label is perhaps best known for their symphonic progressive rock releases and a steady stream of productions by fledgling progressive metal acts today. This small label was an important one in the days when this type of music was very much out of fashion and disregarded however, and sadly they have an unwarrented and somewhat undeserved legacy as a low quality label. In particular by those not familiar with the totality of their output.

Following what appears to have been a few shaky years financially (at least their catalogue numbering indicate that) the company folded in 1999, ironically just prior to the growing popularity of progressive rock that came as a direct result of the internet becoming a household item.


Bel Air: The Sleeping Beauty - WMMS 001
Amenophis: You & I - WMMS 002
Tunefish: Guitar Poetry - WMMS 003
Anabis: Theatre - WMMS 004
Merlin: Vanish to the Moon - WMMS 005
Dawn Dialogue: I Put the Spell on the Fire - WMMS 006
Asgard: Götterdämmerung - WMMS 007
Epidermis: Feel Me - WMMS 008
Asgard: Esoteric Poem - WMMS 009
Epidermis: Genius of Original Force - WMMS 010
Dawn Dialogue: Cry of the Hawk - WMMS 011
Character: Demon Child - WMMS 012
Bel Air: A Golden Dream - WMMS 014
Mad Puppet: Masque - WMMS 015
Anabis: Heaven on Earth - WMMS 016
Keaton: Here at the Stairs - WMMS 017
Asgard: Arkana - WMMS 018
Crystal Maze: Waiting in the Spider's Web - WMMS 019
Tsunami: Anthem Of The Great Wave - WMMS 020
Black Jester: Diary of a Blind Angel - WMMS 021
Marathon: Impossible Is Possible - WMMS 022
Georg Clementi: Un mare in testa - WMMS 023
Court: And You'll Follow the Winds' Rush 'Till Their Breath Dwells - WMMS 024
Anyone's Daughter: Adonis - WMMS 025
Garden Wall: Principium - WMMS 026
Anyone's Daughter: Anyone's Daughter - WMMS 027
Asgard: Imago Mundi - WMMS 028
Anyone's Daughter: In Blau - WMMS 029
Epidermis: Feel Me - WMMS 030
Anyone's Daughter: Neue Sterne - WMMS 031
Delta Cyphei Project: Virtual World - WMMS 032
Anyone's Daughter: Piktors Verwandlungen - WMMS 033
Baku: Sequences of My Bequest - WMMS 034
Anyone's Daughter: Live - WMMS 035
Crystal Maze: Forever - WMMS 036
Black Jester: Welcome to the Moonlight Circus - WMMS 037
Quasar Lux Symphoniae: Abraham - One Act Rock Opera - WMMS 038/039
Paragone: Paragone - WMMS 040
Hölderlin: Hoelderlin - WMMS 041
Sigmund Snopek III: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf  - WMMS 042
Hölderlin: Clowns & Clouds - WMMS 043
Garden Wall: Path of Dreams - WMMS 044
Hölderlin: Rare Birds - WMMS 045
Merlin: Merlin - WMMS 046
Hölderlin: Traumstadt - WMMS 047/048
Hölderlin: New Faces - WMMS 049
Ivanhoe: Visions and Reality - WMMS 050
Ines: Hunting the Fox - WMMS 051
Top Left Corner: Mystery Book - WMMS 052
Mad Puppet: King Laurin and His Rosegarden - WMMS 053
Last Warning: From the Floor of the Well - WMMS 054
Tea in the Sahara: Behind the Door - WMMS 057
Marathon: Sublime Dreams - WMMS 058
Überfall: So uferlos im Abendwind - WMMS 060
PRKLZ: Deuce - WMMS 061 - rejected for Progarchives inclusion
Dear & I: Tendency - WMMS 062
Helvede: Anywhere - WMMS 069 - rejected for Progarchives inclusion
Lanvall: Melolydian Garden - WMMS 070
Box of Crayons: Colorblind Chameleon - WMMS 073
Sigmund Snopek III: Nobody to Dream - WMMS 074
Cross 'n' Crazy: Wet - WMMS 077 - rejected for Progarchives inclusion
Silent Lucidity: Positive as Sound - WMMS 078
Garden Wall: The Seduction of Madness - WMMS 080
Livit: Unspoken - WMMS 086
Taliesyn: When Silence Will Be Unbearable - WMMS 087
Airborne: Walk on Water - WMMS 088 - rejected for Progarchives inclusion
Vigilance: Behind the Mask - WMMS 089
Ghosts of Dawn: Sunchild - WMMS 090
Maryson: Master Magician I - WMMS 092
Ghosts of Dawn: Means & Delusions - WMMS 095
Top Left Corner: Nowhere - WMMS 096
Lanvall: Auramony - WMMS 097
Ines: Eastern Dawning - WMMS 098
Tea in the Sahara: Boomerang - WMMS 099
Ivanhoe: Symbols of Time - WMMS 100
Mayfair: Die Flucht - WMMS 101
Subcutane: Circle Of Fools - WMMS 104
Five-O-One: 21st Century Dream - WMMS 105
Ancient Curse: Thirsty Fields - WMMS 107
Mystère De Notre Dame: Mystère De Notre Dame - WMMS 109
Rachel's Birthday: An Invitation to Rachel's Birthday - WMMS 110
Wildeve: Touch and Go - WMMS 111
Garden Wall: Chimica - WMMS 117
Airborne: The Other Side - WMMS 120 - rejected for Progarchives inclusion
Crotalo: Nel cuore del Mondo - WMMS 122
Zen: Gaze Into the Light - WMMS 125
Quasar Lux Symphoniae: The Enlightening March of the Argonauts - WMMS 127
Matter of Taste: Jack Of Spades - WMMS 130
Court: Distances - WMMS 137
Ancient Curse: The Landing - WMMS 140
Horizon's End: Sculpture On Ice - WMMS 147
Ivanhoe: Polarized - WMMS 150
Vigilance: Secrecy - WMMS 170
Maryson: Master Magician II - On Goes the Quest - WMMS 200


Rumoured/undocumented releases:
Epidermis: First Step In Tune - WMMS013
Anyone's Daughter: Very Last Tracks - WMMS055
Anabis: Wer Will - WMMS056
Ivanhoe: Visions And Reality (Re-Release) - WMMS091
Vigilance: Irrlicht - WMMS171


Edited by Windhawk - December 14 2013 at 15:30