MYSTERY PLAYS RECORDS PRESENTS: JAN JELINEK with AM/PM and INCH-TIME (DJ)

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Mystery Plays Records continues their series of electronic music nights at Café OTO with German Glitch / Microhouse legend Jan Jelinek. With support from AM/PM and Inch-time (DJ).

Bypassing the rules of traditional musicianship, Jan Jelinek prefers to construct collages from tiny sound fragments, from the lost-and-found products of samplers, tape recorders, media players and other recording implements. To this end, Jan Jelinek often works with loops and slight modulations to distil the gist of a piece of music and define it more clearly while masking its original source.

In the late 1990s he started to release his works under the pseudonyms Farben and Gramm, adapting his primary sampling premise to a surprising range of different sounds. During the following years, Jan Jelinek released solo projects under his own name on the scape-label, collaborated with artists like Sarah Morris or German author Thomas Meinecke, played a range of laptop or gadget-based live sets, worked with improvisation ensembles from Japanese trio Computer Soup to the Australian jazz formation Triosk and created a number of audio-visual performances with video artist Karl Kliem, founded with Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler the Trio Groupshow and launched in 2008 the label faitiche.

"It's clear that Jelinek is one of the most inventive producers working in his field today." - Pitchfork