DUMBO TRACKS is the project of Cologne-based producer Jan Philipp Janzen. His self-titled debut album features contributions from Markus Acher (The Notwist), Portable, Roosevelt, Marker Starling, Julian Knoth (Die Nerven), Indra Dunis (Peaking Lights), Eiko Ishibashi, Julene and DJ Koze.

Jan Philipp Janzen is a member of the bands Von Spar, Urlaub in Polen, Die Sterne and Cologne Tape. Philipp played drums with The Field, Owen Pallett, Scout Niblett, and worked in Von Spar's own Dumbo Studios as a producer and engineer alongside his own projects with artists such as R. Stevie Moore, The Field, Xul Zolar, Luis Ake, Albrecht Schrader and Stephen Malkmus. He has been teaching music production at the Institute for Pop Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts since 2016.