Jan Jelinek

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Jan Jelinek, 2010
Jan Jelinek 2006 at the new forms festival , Vancouver

Jan Jelinek is a German producer of electronic music . Since 2008 he has also run the Faitiche record label .

Life

After studying philosophy and sociology, after moving to Berlin in 1995, he increasingly turned to electronic music . His music is based to a large extent on samples , the sources of which, however, cannot always be easily recognized by digital sound processing. Nevertheless, in some cases he refers to his sources and influences with the titles of his CDs. This applies to "Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records" and "Cosmic Pitch". If the reference to the former is obvious, the latter indirectly refers to the Krautrock of the 1970s in the title of both the CD itself and individual pieces .

Jelinek also publishes under the pseudonyms Farben (since 1998) and Gramm . As a color , it is based on soul samples, more on dub and electronic dance music . In this way the music can best be described as experimental dub. As a gram , he tries to find a compromise between “audible” minimal electronics and “danceable” music. In the music magazine Intro this was referred to as "additive seconds music ". In 2000 his audio collages filled the Young Media Pavilion at the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In the following years he worked with artists such as Sarah Morris , Christopher Bauder, Dennis Busch and the author Thomas Meinecke , collaborated with the Japanese improvisation ensemble Computer Soup , the Australian jazz trio Triosk , the vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita and the choreographer Sylvain Émard , wrote and produced various Radio pieces for the SWR2 Ars Acustica and performed audiovisual concerts with the video artist Karl Kliem , which could be seen at the Center Pompidou Paris , among others . In 2007 he founded the free improvisation trio Groupshow with Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler .

Jelinek's work can hardly be grasped conceptually - especially if one includes his work under the pseudonyms. It can best be characterized as a mixture of clicks and cuts , electronica , intelligent dance music , glitch and microsound .

In summer 2013 he turned to the remix and edited pieces by James DIN A4 , which appeared in 2014 as Farben presents James DIN A4 . “Remixes are not easy. You should be in the spirit of the original piece, but you still want to add your own handwriting. An ideal remix combines both. "The taz described the album as a" summit meeting of two strange owls "and came to the conclusion:" With this successful album, Jan Jelinek delivers something that lies in the contradictions of the art of remixing: an independent quotation. "

Some of his live performances with a laptop have also been published (e.g. improvisations and edits , 2002).

Prizes and awards

The readers of the music and lifestyle magazine De: Bug voted him the best producer of the year 2002. In 2012 Jelinek received the Karl Sczuka Prize of 5,000 euros for his studio production Do you know Otahiti?

Discography

  • Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (~ scape 2001)
  • with Computer Soup : improvisations and edits (Tokyo 2002)
  • 1 + 3 + 1, (with triosk ) (~ scape 2003)
  • La Nouvelle Pauvreté (~ scape 2003)
  • Cosmic pitch, (~ scape 2005)
  • Animal observations (~ scape 2006)
  • Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek: Bird, Lake, Objects (Faitiche 2010)
  • Temple of Faitiche (Faitiche 2013)
  • Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek: Foam (Faitiche 2016)

As colors :

  • Colors (Klang Elektronik 1998)
  • Stuck, (EP, Klang Elektronik 1999)
  • Silicone (Klang Elektronik 2000)
  • Starbox (Klang Elektronik 2002)
  • Textstar (Klang Elektronik 2002)
  • Farben presents James DIN A4 (2014)

As a society for the emancipation of the sample (GES) :

  • Circulations (Faitiche 2009)

As The Exposures :

  • Lost Recordings 2000-2004 (Eastern Development 2005)

As a group show (Andrew Pekler, Hanno Leichtmann, Jan Jelinek):

  • The martyrdom of groupshow (~ scape 2009)

As grams :

  • Personal Rock (Source Records 2000)

Radio audio pieces:

Web links

Commons : Jan Jelinek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  2. ↑ taz: Techno meets Unkraut , April 14, 2014
  3. ^ Homepage SWR 2 , accessed on October 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Faitiche: Farben & James DIN A4 - Farben presents James DIN A4 ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Information, interview and audio samples @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.faitiche.de
personal data
SURNAME Jelinek, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colors (pseudonym); Gram (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ and producer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century