Jan Jelinek
[Farben, Gramm]



Jan Jelinek, has recorded under the Farben (Klang), Gramm (Source) earning himself a respected name as a producer and contributor to the German electronic music scene. Moving to Berlin in 1995, for the sake of his university degree in philosophy and sociology, Jelinek started experimenting with sampling media. His experimentation turned into solid productions and in 1998, he started releasing records under the moniker Farben on Klang Elektronik. In April of 2000, he released the fourth Farben record, Raw Micro, while also recording under the name Gramm. The Gramm alias served as a vehicle for Jelinek to create a compromise between listening and dance music. Using his sampler as a tool to dissect and tape together new trackshas released one of 2001's best electronic full-lengths under his own name for the Berlin-based ~Scape label (belonging to Stefan Betke - Pole). In Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records Jelinek cut and pasted jazz sequences from the '60s and '70s, rearranging them with audio tools for a unique end product. In addition to performing live at clubs, he has taken part in electronic music-focused festivals and largely contributed to the Hanover, Germany-based Expo 2000, creating multimedia land and soundscapes for the youth media exhibit.Jan Jelinek has successfully captured the buzz of the German, minimal techno/dub sound in a way that recontextualizes sample-based music, borrowing from past improvisations and creating new ones. At the height of the glitch zeitgeist, Jan Jelinek's unique talent stands out among the crowd, even from behind the shadow of his label-boss Pole, as one of the genre's grooviest examples of digital minimalism.

as Jan Jelinek:
Tendency EP (12") ~scape 2000
Loop-finding-jazz-records (CD, Album, Dig) ~scape 2001
Loop-finding-jazz-records (2xLP) ~scape 2001
Avec The Exposures (12") ~scape 2002
ICE Compositions (12") En/Of 2002
Improvisations And Edits Tokyo, 09/26/2001 (CD, Album) Soup-Disk 2002
Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001 (CD) Audiosphere 2002
1+3+1 (CD, Album, Dig) ~scape 2003
1+3+1 (LP) ~scape 2003
La Nouvelle Pauvreté (CD, Album, Dig) ~scape 2003
La Nouvelle Pauvreté (LP, Album) ~scape 2003
Kosmischer Pitch (CD, Album, Dig) ~scape 2005
Kosmischer Pitch (LP) ~scape 2005
Tierbeobachtungen (CD, Album, Dig) ~scape 2006
Hub - Tierbeobachtungen (File, MP3) ~scape 2008

as Farben:
Farben (12") Klang Elektronik 1998
Stuck EP (12", EP) Klang Elektronik 1998
Featuring The Dramatics (12") Klang Elektronik 1999
Beautone (12") Klang Elektronik 2000
Raw Macro (12") Klang Elektronik 2000
Farben. Says: Don't Fight Phrases (12", EP) Klang Elektronik 2002
Farben. Says: Don't Fight Phrases (12", EP, W/Lbl, Promo) Klang Elektronik 2002
Starbox (4x12", Comp + Box) Klang Elektronik 2002
Textstar (CD, Album, Dig) Klang Elektronik 2002
Textstar (CD, Album, Promo, Pla) Klang Elektronik 2002
The Sampling Matters EP (12", EP) Klang Elektronik 2004

as Gramm:
Personal Rock (CD, Album) Source Records (2) 1999
Personal Rock (2xLP, Album) Source Records (2) 2000
Personal Rock (CD, Album, RE) Disques Corde 2007