Jan Jelinek

This article is about the German musician. For the Czech footballer, see Jan Jelínek.

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
Occupation(s)	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)
• Sountrack 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

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.

External links

• Official website
• Jan Jelinek discography at Discogs
• Faitiche website