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MARRIAGE 064LP
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"Institut fuer Feinmotorik (IFF) is an artists' group working in different formats and media, although the main activity is acoustic-art/music. IFF is located in Bad Sackingen, Berlin, Cologne, and Karlsruhe, Germany. The group was founded in 1997 for a club event in Basel, Switzerland at Brisant kiosk/club. IFF produces different outputs (photography, video, music, drawing, computer-programming, printed matters etc.), organizes artistic/cultural events, does lectures and workshops and publishes artistic goods such as music records, books etc. IFF got some reputation for their acoustic work with a reductionist set-up called octogrammoticum: 8 turntables, 4 DJ mixers + end-mixer, which is served by the group members. Anything (except records) which somehow fits between turntables and pick-up cartridges (household-rubber bands, paper-stickers, rubber gums, handicraft-tools + various tinker-trivias) may be played."
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STAUB 025CD
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"Long expected new album by Southern German turntable rockers and clicks'n'cuts veterans Institut Fuer Feinmotorik; 8 killer tracks created on up to 8 'empty' record players prepared with household materials... Name of the project: Institut Fuer Feinmotorik (= institute for precision motoricity). Purpose: different occupations in different formats; among a.o. organization of events (Entertainment/Music/Fine Arts), marginal reflections on the subject of the term of precision motoricity in different contexts, experiment setups for the production of sound and light works, concentration on reduction of the instruments, among others interest in acoustic phenomena around the record player, indeed along with abandonment of records; accompanying motto: 'To produce from almost nothing almost nothing'. Since 1997 different presentations with the concept of 'empty' record players, thereby 2-4 persons play approx. 8 record players under the application of different handicraft-materials in a music performance."
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STAUB 025LP
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STAUB 005LP
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"On this mini LP the group's work is focused on the acoustic sphere beyond usual gain signals. Elements of noise containing no original sense emerge to significant structures. The setup consists of six to eight 'empty' record players which means that no gain signals but the empty or manipulated lock grooves or the paper labels of the records are played. Besides that Institut Fuer Feinmotorik have found some other ways to generate acoustic signals out of empty record players: house-rubberbands, adhesive tape and tooth brushes are just a few instruments used to produce different sounds." "Audio-path non-congestion from this unnamed grouping of Staubgold-related individuals, recorded live between April & June 1998. It may all be a ruse but I sense the same sort of post-plate Brinkmann/Betke-isms (straight-line scratches 90 degrees from the travel of the tone arm, tempos of exactly 133.333~ BPM for the perfect synchronization of downbeat ones along the side-path) in linear-growth & random click/pop aesthetic. Something for the Mego/Oval/life set." -- Hrvatski.
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