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- A TAV Essential Listening Album -

Despite its title, the sophomore studio album by German electronic music producer Jan Jelinek is not a jazz record. Instead, it is a touchstone release within the electronic sub-genres of minimal IDM, ambient, and glitch, with the album title paying homage to the samples used to produce the album being entirely sourced from jazz records. This 2001 LP brims with subtle textures, nervy drones and gentle clicks, pops and whirrs that feel like Morse code for the emotional spaces between dread and pleasure.

Though it may not sound like it, the ingredients of Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records were indeed all sourced from jazz records, just atomized into a deconstructed dish of glitch and noise. As one progresses through the album’s undulating cloud of shifting static and abstract beats, one will find Jelinek’s cerebral approach trapping the listener in an otherworldly dimension that audiophiles can scarcely dream of. — The Analog Vault

Though he shares an interest in sonic byproduct with artists like SND, Sutekh, and Pole, Jan Jelinek sets himself apart by probing the warm and luminous corners of the digital landscape. So while his music may well be just as theory-based as his peers, Jelinek's work has a strong emotional component that at times verges on the sentimental.

Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records is Jelinek's first full-length under his own name, but it's not far from his fine records as Farben and Gramm. The rhythms are more varied here, and Jelinek is working with a richer sound palette centered on warm, fuzzy chords and static. Leadoff track "Moiré," which is built around nervous, unsteady drones (possibly sampled from an organ) and a bed of slowly shifting noise, slowly undulates between dread and comfort. "Rock in the Video Age" reprises the gently insistent house thump featured more prominently on Gramm's Personal Rock, and undercuts the beat with surging chords and unpredictable percussive accents. "Do Dekor" is another highlight, with marked dub inflection, an aggressive, tearing bassline, and gentle tones modulating between three chords on top. Each listen to Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records reveals another intriguing layer, and this is certainly one of the more inviting records in the world of electronic listening music.  — (via AllMusic)

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Label: Faitiche 
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Reissued: 2024 / Original: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, Glitch, Minimal Techno

File under: House / Electro / Techno
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