Mark Richardson

I'm the editor-in-chief of Pitchfork and I wrote Zaireeka, a book about the Flaming Lips album.

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This record hasn’t aged a day.

This track is called “Them, Their”, and it’s from Jan Jelinek’s 2001 album Loop-finding-jazz-records.

The mix is just incredibly well done. The proportions between that “warm” organ bit and the “cold” clacking stuff around it are exactly right. 

The first time I heard this and realized you could use a microscopic unit of digital crackle as a snare and make it work was an epiphany. Minimalism! 

Posted at 7:00pm and tagged with: Jan Jelinek,.

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    really great record.
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    really amazing how effective
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