''Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records'' (stylised in all lowercase) is the second studio album by German

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producer

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. It was released on 2 February 2001 by the label

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Production

Jan Jelinek recorded ''Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records'' in his

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flat in 2000. He produced much of the album using an

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sampler. Jelinek composed the tracks on ''Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records'' around heavily manipulated samples from

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records, an approach acknowledged in the album's title, though reviews have noted the album bears virtually no resemblance to the jazz genre and "the sounds' origins are barely perceptible".

Critical reception

Reviewing ''Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records'' for ''

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'', critic Mark Richardson said that Jelinek distinguishes himself from other

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artists through his more evident "ear for emotion" on the album, which Richardson credited to "the textures he chooses, which veer toward the liquid and organic", and "the manner in which Jelinek operates." In his review for

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, Richardson highlighted the album's more varied rhythms and "richer sound palette" compared to Jelinek's past work. In 2017, ''Pitchfork'' placed ''Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records'' at number seven on its list of the 50 best IDM albums of all time. According to Brian Kolada of ''

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'', the album has gone on to be "widely hailed as a highlight of the late-'90s and early-'00s era of minimal and experimental electronic music."

Track listing

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2001 albums Albums recorded in a home studio Glitch (music) albums