- Farben Presents James DIN A4
Berlin musician Jan Jelinek has been making music under various guises for almost 20 years. Early on (meaning the late 90s and early 00s), Jelinek was primarily known for being one of the pioneers of glitch house, a genre in which the skips and scratches of damaged CDs and brief snippets of music are restitched into a twitchy, highly digitized form of house and techno music. Under monikers such as Farben, Gramm, and his own name, Jelinek distinguished himself by making dance music that was glitch-heavy but also warm and sumptuous. Textstar (Klang Elektronik), a collection of highlights from a series of 12-inches he released as Farben, is a landmark release in minimal-house music and early-00s electronic music generally. But the increased amount of attention Jelinek received from the dance-music crowd redirected him in the opposite direction, towards droning electronic and ambient music heavily reliant on improvisation.
