Mystery Plays Records continues their electronic explorations at Café OTO with German Glitch / Microhouse legend Jan Jelinek. With support from AM/PM and Inch-time (DJ) Live!.
JAN JELINEK
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
Swiss born electronic musician Radovan Scasascia, who lives and works in London, originally trained as an architect in Zürich, before moving to the UK and concentrating fully on electronic music. In 2000 he co-founded Dreck records, one of the most consistantly enjoyable and daring electronic labels operating today. As AM/PM he combines minimal electronics with conceptual composing. His first release, The Ends I & II, creates beautifully spacious and cinematic tracks from loops, edits and re-arrangements of the sampled "ends" of records.
“The music of AM/PM – The Ends is able to evoke vast textures and minute enclaves of sound at one and the same time - if you're into Murcof or the effervescent jazz-looped warmth of Jan Jelinek this record is an absolute must” - Boomkat
Since releasing his earliest records back in 2003, Stefan Panczak, aka Inch-time, has quietly forged an irrepressible niche which has taken on a life of its own. His subtle melding of gleaming electronica and a whole host of other ingredients – from dub to folk textures, and languid jazz stylings to post-rock atmospheres – has evolved to take in new elements while sticking to the unique approach which Panczak has made his signature since his debut album, 2005’s Any Colour You Like.
The Floating World, the third Inch-time album, finds Panczak on the cusp of a new beginning. It marks the first release on his new self-run label, Mystery Plays Records, and as such is the latest stage in Inch-time’s evolution. With an enchanting melodic grace reminiscent of Philip Glass, Panczak’s minimal and achingly fragile electronica soars and glides, bewitching with its slow- burning and otherworldly touches.
