Jan Jelinek is a German

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

ian who also operates under the names Farben, Gramm and The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as

minimal techno Minimal techno is a subgenre of techno music. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition and understated development. Minimal techno is thought to have been originally developed in the early 1990s by Detro ...

glitch A glitch is a short-lived technical fault, such as a transient one that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, in circuit bending, as well as among pl ...

microhouse Microhouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. History Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, bitpop (both developed in the early 1990s), and house (dev ...

, and is characterized by deep

bassline Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, Dub music, dub and electronic music, electronic, traditional music, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched P ...

s, extensive use of samples from earlier

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

and rock recordings, and clicks & cuts effects. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche.

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

External links

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Faitiche
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