Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo’s jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.
Format: LP/DL
Release: Mar 3th 2023
Roméo Poirier adds another track to his last year's album Living Room + Eli Keszler remixes Statuario and transforms it into an atmospheric setting that seems to have sprung from a magical vaudeville act. digital only / all platforms
Format: DL
Release: Jan. 13th 2023
The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
Format: LP/DL
Release: Jan. 27th 2023
Toon! immerses us in a highly distinctive world of plunderphonics-sampledelica-variations acousmatiques that’s impossible to classify while feeling familiar nonetheless. Following a strict two-minute format, thirteen complex sound constructions offer a range of experiences – as if the neurosciences had developed an acoustic formula capable of triggering illusions of memory. 13 tracks = 13 déjà-vus.
Format: LP/DL
Release: Nov. 4th 2022
Living Room is the third solo album by Roméo Poirier, following 2020’s much praised Hotel Nota. The French musician and producer explores the mysteries of music as a time-based art – not simply in the sense of duration, but the way time refracts through autobiographical experience, historical dimensions and stages of evolution.
Format: LP/DL
Release: Oct. 7th 2022
On textstar+ Jan Jelinek brings together the material from the CMYK series, four EPs he released between 1999 and 2002 under the pseudonym farben (the German word for both colours and paints), on a vinyl double LP for the first time. The selection of tracks has been remastered from the original tapes, joined by two additional pieces that appeared on compilations during the same period.
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Known to many from bands like Tuesday Weld or The Schneider TM Experience, Michael Beckett aka Trip Shrubb remixed his way through Harry Smith’s famous Anthology of American Folk Music.
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Album version of the radio piece Vom Rohen und Gekochten (The Raw and The Cooked) originally composed and produced by Jan Jelinek for the state broadcaster SWR2. The album brings together five sound collages that deal with the consistency of material and its mutability.
Format: LP/DL
ICE Compositions was released back in 2002 as a strictly limited vinyl EP on the En/Of label as part of a collaboration with the US artist Sarah Morris. The tracks are named after the different trains aboard which they were composed on a laptop while traveling.
Format: DL
A long-lost vinyl album is back in stock: for the last 18 years, 1+3+1 by Triosk meets Jan Jelinek, originally released in 2003 on ~scape, existed only as a digital download. Now the remastered album is available again on vinyl.
Format: LP/DL
Fortunately for us, Dmytro Nikolaienko agreed to open up the jewellery boxes of his tape-loop archive for his debut album on Faitiche. What came to light was a collection of dreamy glittering gems, masterfully presented using the compositional possibilities of analogue tape machines.
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Six great pop standards remembered: five pop songs are dissected by sampler, stretched, compressed, and re-collaged. In this way, their identity is lost. What remains is a vague concreteness: flashes of déjà vu and remote echoes that evoke the original.
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abtasten_halten is a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations – all random, without repetition. The album resembles a meditation on infinite rhythmic variation.
Format: LP/DL
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Originally released in 2006, the album’s six tracks took their cues from Jelinek’s live concerts of that period: dense, slowly unfolding loop improvisations made with a laptop, various effect pedals and miniature synthesizers. It is music that floats in a semi-conscious state between dream and awakening, always slightly mysterious, leaving traces that lead directly to the psychedelic-cosmic music of the kraut era.
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Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas. With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contemporary Exotica.
Format: LP/DL
Scherk and Majer produce contemporary sound collages on samplers, laptops etc. using raw material drawn from YouTube videos, field recordings, cassettes, and LPs from the dollar bin. Their work might be called a contemporary upgrade of the classic tape collage: here, channelling a wealth of information is the main focus.
Format: LP/DL
A new collaboration between the Japanese sound artist ASUNA and Jan Jelinek: the album Signals Bulletin brings together joint improvisations and compositions made over a period of three years in Berlin, Kyoto and Kanazawa. ASUNA's meandering organ drones merge with Jelinek's pulsating synthesizer and field recording loops to create dense superclusters that span broad harmonic arcs.
Format: LP/DL
1999 - twenty years ago, Jan Jelinek’s debut album Personal Rock was released by Source Records. Under the pseudonym Gramm, it brings together eight tracks that have not been available on vinyl since their original release.
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Whether the drummer mimics the machine or the machine mimics the drummer is no longer a question for cultural critique or estrangement theory: rhythmitised assembly on the factory line concerns only a minor part of today’s working world. More important is the animistic core question: Is the subject (drummer) contained in the beat or does he lose himself to the beat? Or does he follow an experimental setup that functions like a composition or a conceptualist experiment, that allows for both, considers both?
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Faitiche is delighted to release a short version of the radio play Zwischen (German for ‘between’). Devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, Zwischen brings together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures.
Format: LP/DL
Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001 - on vinyl for the first time. For the original 2002 CD on Soup-Disk and Sub Rosa (Audiosphere), Jan Jelinek and the Japanese trio Computer Soup (Satoru Hori – trumpet, Osamu Okubo - toys & electronics, Kei Ikeda - toys & electronics) presented eight tracks all recorded one afternoon in the trio’s living room in Tokyo.
Format: LP/DL
Acoustic Surveillance Series - Each 7” vinyl single in the series presents a historical system for acoustic surveillance, beginning with uguisubari by G.E.S.. The pieces on the record feature recordings of uguisubari – special floors in Japanese temples and castles.
Format: 7" Vinyl/DL
Winkel Pong contains three previously unreleased pieces from the archive of the sound researcher who died in 1994. For Winkel Pong the tape archive was passed on to Lucrecia Dalt. The Berlin-based Colombian sound artist and musician chose three tracks from the 1980s (exact dates unknown), editing the tape recordings for their release on Winkel Pong.
Format: 7" Vinyl/DL
Faitiche is delighted to present a long-lost vinyl album: for the last 14 years, Jan Jelinek's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, originally released in 2001 on ~scape, existed only as a download. Now the album is available again on vinyl, as a double LP with two bonus tracks (B-sides from the Tendency EP, 2000).
Format: LP/CD/DL
Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and manipulated field recordings.
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Since their debut (Bird, Lake, Objects, 2010) the duo have played improvised concerts around the world. Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita prepares his instrument with various percussion elements as well as metal objects and toys, while Jan Jelinek layers loops made using small-scale electronic devices. Schaum (German for froth, foam) is the duo’s second album.
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Faitiche is very pleased to present a new album (faitiche12) and, at the same time, a well-known name: Farben presents James DIN A4. In the summer of 2013 Farben (Jan Jelinek) remixed his way through the extensive oeuvre of the sample and collage artist James DIN A4 (Dennis Busch) – and gathered ten of his favorite titles here.
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Temple is the final installment in a series of four vinyl compilations that bring together the wide variety of Jan Jelinek’s music: commissioned works, live recordings, collaborations with other musicians as well as unreleased material from the last five years.
Format: LP/Vinylbox/Concrete Cube/DL
USB concrete cube Temple (size: 31 cm x 31 cm x 31 cm, weight: 70 kg) is containing the WAV files of Jan Jelinek’s compilation (Faitiche8-11). Temple cube is decidedly not portable - it is in fact monumentally bound to location.
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Do you know Otahiti? is the third of four vinyl compilations that bring together a highly diverse range of Jan Jelinek's works - including commissioned pieces, live recordings, collaborations with other musicians, as well as unreleased material from the past five years.
Format: LP/Vinylbox/Concrete Cube/DL
PrimeTime is the second of four vinyl compilations that bring together a highly diverse range of Jan Jelinek's works - including commissioned pieces, live recordings, collaborations with other musicians, as well as unreleased material from the past five years.
Format: LP/Vinylbox/Concrete Cube/DL
Music for Fragments / Music & Birds is the first of four vinyl compilations that bring together a highly diverse range of Jan Jelinek's works - including commissioned pieces, live recordings, collaborations with other musicians, as well as unreleased material from the past five years.
Format: LP/Vinylbox/Concrete Cube/DL
Faitiche presents four new recordings from the Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples (G.E.S.). On More Circulations G.E.S. remain stylistically and conceptually committed to the first release Circulations, instigating the following recording situations: audio playback devices are placed in public spaces in order to play the desired sample material.
Format: 7" Vinyl/DL
The release of Sonne = Blackbox brings together all of these aspects in one CD and book: compiled by Andrew Pekler, the CD/LP presents Bogner's early experiments with voice and tape music – a previously unknown emotional side of her music is revealed here through her singing.
Format: LP/CD&Book/DL
From a distance, these tracks seem rather introspective, cautious even – and reflect the recording situation: deliberately pared down, reduced to a single microphone in space and a separate track for all other instruments, each movement and action is chronicled by the treacherous mike.
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Circulations aims to restage a particular recording premise. Playback devices are placed in public space and broadcast the desired sampling material. Even where authorship is still recognisable, the resulting field recordings relegate music to a casual, circulating background element – just one event among many, equal to the ambient acoustics, casual conversations and traffic noise.
Format: Vinyl 7"/CD/DL
It is only due to a fortunate coincidence that we know anything of Ursula Bogner, the musician. Born in 1946, she spent her professional life as a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, simultaneously pursuing a hobby of experimenting with electronic music in seclusion over a span of nearly 30 years. From the extensive archival material Jan Jelinek compiled "Ursula Bogner: Recordings 1969-1988".
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