Jan Jelinek Explained

Jan Jelinek
Background:	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Alias:	The Exposures Farben Gramm N. Gratin
Origin:	Berlin, Germany
Genre:	Minimal techno, glitch, microhouse, ambient, IDM
Occupation:	Producer, musician
Years Active:	1998–present
Label:	~scape, En/Of, Soup Disk, Audiosphere, Faitiche
Website:	www.janjelinek.com

Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names Farben, Gramm and The Exposures.^[1] His music is usually categorized as minimal techno, glitch or microhouse, and is characterized by deep basslines, extensive use of samples from earlier jazz and rock recordings,^[2] and clicks & cuts effects. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche.^[3] ^[4]

Discography

Albums

Personal Rock as Gramm (1999)
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (2001)
Improvisations and Edits Tokyo, 26 September 2001 (2002)
Textstar as Farben (2002)
1+3+1 (2003)
La Nouvelle Pauvreté as The Exposures (2003)
Kosmischer Pitch (2005)
Lost Recordings 2000–2004 as The Exposures (2005)
Tierbeobachtungen (2006)
Bird, Lake, Objects with Masayoshi Fujita (2010)
Schaum with Masayoshi Fujita (2016)
Zwischen (2018)
Puls-Plus-Puls with Sven-Åke Johansson (2019)
Signals Bulletin with Asuna (2019)
The Raw and the Cooked (2021)
SEASCAPE - polyptych (2023)

EPs

Tendency (2000)
Music for Fragments (2012)
PrimeTime (2012)
Do You Know Otahiti? (2013)
Temple (2013)
Relief, Pt. 1 (2019)
Ice Compositions (2021)

Singles

"Tendency" (2000)
"If's, And's and But's" (2002)

Compilations

HUB Tierbeobachtungen (2006)

External links

Jan Jelinek on Discogs
Faitiche

Notes and References

Web site: Jan Jelinek Biography & History AllMusic. AllMusic. 2015-09-23. Potts. Diana.
Web site: RA: Jan Jelinek. Resident Advisor. 2015-09-23.
Web site: Faitiche - What is faitiche?. faitiche.de. 2015-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20160208153855/http://faitiche.de/index.php?article_id=6. 8 February 2016. dead.
Web site: Jan Jelinek - Artist Profile. eventseeker.com. en. 2020-03-31.