Jan Jelinek

Jan Jelinek
Jan Jelinek
	Jelinek in 2020
Background information
Also known as	The Exposures; Farben; Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples; Gramm; N. Gratin;
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genres	Minimal techno; glitch; microhouse; ambient; IDM;
Occupations	Musician, producer
Years active	1998–present
Labels	~scape; En/Of; Soup Disk; Audiosphere; Faitiche;
Member of	Groupshow
Website	www.janjelinek.com

Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names Farben, Gramm and The Exposures, among others.^[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; Source, 1999)
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (~scape, 2001)
Improvisations and Edits Tokyo 09/26/2001 (with Computer Soup; Soup-Disk, 2002)
Textstar (as Farben; Klang Elektronik, 2002)
1+3+1 (with Triosk; ~scape, 2003)
La Nouvelle Pauvreté (as The Exposures; ~scape, 2003)
Kosmischer Pitch (~scape, 2005)
Lost Recordings 2000–2004 (as The Exposures; Eastern Developments, 2005)
Tierbeobachtungen (~scape, 2006)
Bird, Lake, Objects (with Masayoshi Fujita; Faitiche, 2010)
Schaum (with Masayoshi Fujita; Faitiche, 2016)
Zwischen (Faitiche, 2018)
Puls-Plus-Puls (with Sven-Åke Johansson; Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu, 2019)
Signals Bulletin (with Asuna; Faitiche, 2019)
The Raw and the Cooked (Faitiche, 2021)
Soundtrack for SEASCAPE – polyptych (Faitiche, 2023)
Social Engineering (Faitiche, 2024)

Extended plays

Tendency (~scape, 2000)
Music for Fragments / Music & Birds (Faitiche, 2012)
PrimeTime (Faitiche, 2012)
Do You Know Otahiti? (with Masayoshi Fujita; Faitiche, 2013)
Temple (split with Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples; Faitiche, 2013)
Ice Compositions / Miami (with Sarah Morris; En/Of, 2021)

Singles

"If's, And's and But's" (as The Exposures; ~scape, 2002)

References

^Potts, Diana. "Jan Jelinek | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^"RA: Jan Jelinek". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^"Faitiche - What is faitiche?". faitiche.de. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^"Jan Jelinek - Artist Profile". eventseeker.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

External links

[1] Potts, Diana. "Jan Jelinek | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

[2] "RA: Jan Jelinek". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

[3] "Faitiche - What is faitiche?". faitiche.de. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

[4] "Jan Jelinek - Artist Profile". eventseeker.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

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