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- Date Released: April 1, 2002
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Techno
- Label: Klang Elektronik / Finetunes
The most seductive sort of futurism.
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We Say...
Culled from a half-dozen 12-inches issued between 1998 and 2002, Textstar makes a case that Jan Jelinek, the producer behind the Farben alias, was the subtlest and most forward-thinking techno artist of the period. (The work he issued under his own name subsequently only deepened the impression.) Though he was fond of titles like “Live at the Sierra Tahoe, 1973” and “Love to Love You Baby,” his idea of retro would only pass muster in an alternate universe. Even when the boinging electro-tom (see Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell”) and porn-flick string pads enter midway through “Sierra Tahoe,” or the Curtis Mayfield-knockoff flutes and violins interrupt the symphony for glitch and far-away keyboard rumble that is “Beautone,” they still signify the most seductive sort of futurism.
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They Say...
Between late 1999 and early 2002, Farben (Jan Jelinek) issued a series of four 12" releases for Klang Elektronik that depicted various members of the RAF, a German left-wing terrorist group that existed in the '70s and '80s, on the sleeves. Those titles -- Featuring the Dramatics, Raw Macro, Silikon, and Farben Says: Don't Fight Phrases -- are anthologized for Textstar, which assembles nine of the 15 tracks from those releases into one of the most mindbending and most enjoyable documents of micro-house/micro-dub issued to date. Jan Jelinek, the man behind Farben, has been highly regarded since the late '90s under his own name and as Gramm. He's a top-flight producer of dub-suffused electronic music that wipes away that oft-considered divide between music forms intended for home listening and the dancefloor. However, when donning his Farben hat, Jelinek makes his warmest and most inviting productions and makes further overtures toward the tiles. Out of his three primary operating aliases, Farben is the least steeped in clicks-and-cuts ideology and the most steeped in the enveloping, brain-massaging capabilities of dub. And it's not just the titles of tracks like "Live at the Sahara Tahoe, 1973" and "Farben Says: Love to Love You Baby" that indicate love for soul and disco (as well as a great sense of humor). "Beautone" snaps, squelches, pops, and burps just as much as anything by a Mille Plateaux producer, but the tapping four-four beat and the dizzy swirls of disco strings rescue the song from merely being an interesting cluster of funny noises. The rotund bassline of "Farben Says: So Much Love" is practically carnal, a notion optimized by heady atmospherics and a line repeatedly delivered by a breathy voice. Rather than imparting devotion, desire, or something from the Goffin & King songbook, the female whispers to her mate that he or she needs a new haircut. Equal parts hip and brain, Textstar is a must-have for fans of the form.
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| 01. |  |
Live At The Sahara Tahoe, 1973 |
7:12 |
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| 02. | |
Love To Love You Baby |
6:12 |
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| 03. | |
Suntouch Edit |
5:34 |
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| 04. | |
Beautone |
7:17 |
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| 05. | |
So Much Love |
6:15 |
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| 06. | |
Bayreuth |
5:26 |
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| 07. | |
FF |
5:38 |
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| 08. | |
Silikon |
6:46 |
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| 09. | |
Love Oh Love |
6:54 |
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09 Total Tracks, 57:14 Total Length
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Credits
- Farben - Main Performer // Jan Jelinek - Producer // Jan Jelinek - Producer // Jan Jelinek - Producer
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