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Artist:	INSTITUT FÜR FEINMOTORIK
Title:	Original/Fälschung
Label:	EVENTUELL (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	EVTL 004EP

"First 7" by turntablism-quintet Institut für Feinmotorik from Cologne/Freiburg, well-known for their records on Staubgold and Fusetron. Although purely done with prepared turntables, the tracks remind of the melancholic atmosphere of Gamelan music, but at the same time both 'Original' and 'Fälschung' ('imitation') prove that this collective still marks the most playful and elaborate end of minimal techno. The 7" comes in a stunning cover with a picture puzzle artwork, including ten 'mistakes' to be found in the version on the backcover. A highly entertaining piece of art and music. Limited to 500 copies."

Artist:	INSTITUT FÜR FEINMOTORIK
Title:	Negemergenz
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 023LP

German group (recent album on Staubgold was Wenig Information: Kein Titel). "Now that Institut Fuer Feinmotorik uses 'empty' record players leading to a soundscape which contains very little information, this could be described as something like a negative emergent phenomenon which explains the title of this longplay vinyl album in which the German notion 'emergenz' was modified in the previously described manner. This is Institut fuer Feinmotorik record #6."

Artist:	INSTITUT FÜR FEINMOTORIK
Title:	Wenig Information: Kein Titel
Label:	STAUBGOLD (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	STAUB 005LP

"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.

Artist:	INSTITUT FÜR FEINMOTORIK
Title:	Penetrans
Label:	STAUBGOLD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	STAUB 025CD

"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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