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 Gramm N. Gratin
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genres	Minimal techno, glitch, microhouse, ambient, IDM
Occupation(s)	Producer, musician
Years active	1998–present
Labels	~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)
• Social Engineering (2024)

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

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

• Jan Jelinek on Discogs
• Faitiche