Fat Cat Series Split 12" with Pan American 1998
Janek Schaefer/Pan American
Fat Cat Records 12FAT023
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Track Listing: side 5: Janek Schaefer
1. Beyond Zero Point
2. To Dai For
3. Foreground Blink
4. Wach Bag Razor
5. Startle Bather
Track listing: side 6: Pan American
1. Both Ends Fixed
Janek Schaefer is a practising architect and former student
of the RCA. This Split 12" marks his first full-scale release to date.
Mixed/performed live in a collage technique of stereo sampling manipulation.
The vinyl source material is processed through Schaefer's custom-built Tri-Phonic
Turntable, cheap repetition boxes and effects. Track 4 is generated entirely
from a live exploration of a stereo phono-jack.
Split Series curated by Dave Howell.
ID Magazine
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The third in Fat Cat's eclectic and out-there series sees La Bradfords
Pan American come head to head with Janek Schaefer - a previously unreleased
turntable activist. Schaefer's tracks [based around his custom built three-armed
deck] crackle and fuzz with shimmering chords, shifting loops and random blasts
of noise. Utterly georgeous.
The Wire
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Pan-American is the solo project of Labradford's Mark Nelson and this rather
gorgeous mixture of Fender Rhodes, drum machine and effects is easily the best
thing he's ever done. For all his immersive ambitions, Nelson has created a
track that floats like a butterfly and stings like Yo Yo Ma. Architect janek
Schaefer sounds like Nelson's evil twin. His tracks are sound washes as well,
but they are dark and droning and created with a custom-built Tri-phonic Turntable
that picks up every last speck of dust on a record and magnifies them into Satan's
own percussion orchestra.
Sleazenation
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Despite a history of waxploitation, only with this third installment of Fat
Cat's split series does Tri-Phonic turntablist Janek Schaefer loose his vinyl
virginity. Eschewing the jagged dynamism of experimentalist Christain Marclay
and the five-rounds-rapid-motion of the US turntablist tag-teams, Schaefer's
Musique Concrete logic randomises scratchadelia along artcore lines. Taking
the fire out of turntablism's needleburn. Schaefer lifts serene clouds of static
off his discs with an unexpectedly fierce beauty. With his specially constructed
triple-arm decks, Schaefer has customised the role of the DJ. The flip side
allows La Bradford's Mark Nelson to dilate and amplify thenarcodelic dub of
his eponymous Pan American album, gently stoking it into the amber glow of Angelo
Badalementi's incidental music for Twin Peaks.
Jocky Slut
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Next and possibly best in Fat Cat's always diverting and hard to categorise
series of split singles. Janek Schaefer provides layers of dark avant ambience,
but the gem here is the Pan American epic. God knows what you'd call it, let's
just say deftly crafted, beautiful miusc. A future 7AM classic.