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]

Jan Jelinek
Also known asThe Exposures
Farben
Gramm
N. Gratin
OriginBerlin, Germany
GenresMinimal techno, glitch, microhouse, ambient, IDM
Occupation(s)Producer, musician
Years active1998–present
Labels~scape, En/Of, Soup Disk, Audiosphere, Faitiche
Websitewww.janjelinek.com

Discography

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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)

References

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  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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