Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names
Farben, Gramm, The Exposures and
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples.
His work, which emerged in the early 2000s with pioneering albums such as
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records and
Textstar (Farben), whose minimalist, glitchy, organic aesthetic and reduction of the rhythmic elements of club music strongly marked the era, has developed into experiments based on sound transformation, dealing with the transformation of sounds, translating source materials from popular music into abstract, reduced textures. Jelinek constructs collages using tiny sound fragments from a wide variety of recording devices: tape recorders, digital samplers, media players and the like. The recordings are processed into repetitive loops that boil the original down to its essentials.
He is the founder of the German record label
Faitiche.
See also
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples;
Farben;
Beispiel (
Frank Bretschneider & Jan Jelinek);
Groupshow (Jan Jelinek,
Hanno Leichtmann &
Andrew Pekler).
