Jan JelinekBest Jan Jelinek Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
6
Opinions
6
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Jan Jelinek’s catalog across 6 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Jan Jelinek album is Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (2001) with a 9.3/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Kosmischer Pitch and Schaum. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2001 to 2019.
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
“A mold used in casting needs to be the precise spatial opposite of the desired object. If you want a piece of iron that looks like a human foot, you need a mold with empty space shaped like a human foot. It's obvious-- as the material is cast, matter becomes space and space becomes matter. This image comes to mind as I listen to Jan Jelinek's *Loop-finding-jazz-records*; this album is like hearing”
Improvisations and Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001
“Jan Jelinek titled his 2001 full-length *loop-finding-jazz-records* in reference to his compositional technique: sampling and manipulating tiny fragments of jazz vinyl. Critics never failed to mention how it was put together, and a lot of them claimed to hear elements of the source material in Jelinek's grooves. As much as I loved *loop-finding-jazz-records*, I didn't really hear the jazz embryo i”
Kosmischer Pitch
“On his latest album, the German producer draws from the obsessed-over rock produced by his countrymen in the 1970s.”