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01. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Red Lose Log Dies
02. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Ruder Also In Den
03. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Stern An Angel Moll
04. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Bald Rose Sags Fast
05. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Her Taut Flatter Tut
06. Institut Fur Feinmotorik - Fuss Tags In Reuse
ARTIST
TITLE
Od
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
FAITICHE 043LP FAITICHE 043LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/9/2026

Öd marks the long-awaited return of Institut für Feinmotorik -- the Black Forest collective known for using eight prepared turntables to investigate acoustic micro-phenomena generated by everyday objects -- with a new album and their first full-length release on Faitiche. The Öd-nis, the wasteland, is a field that the collective has been ploughing in sound since their first release in 1997. Eight prepared turntables, four mixers, no records, six hands (give or take) merge into what they call the "Octogrammoticum." A rotating organism of surfaces in friction, fed with the clutter from a drawer: rubber bands or tin foil, CDs, a discarded socket board. Under IFF's scrutinizing stylus, mundane almost-nothings get scratched open to reveal the acoustic density of negative space itself. The only thing öd about Öd (meaning "barren" or "boring" in German) may well be its title: layers of improvised play and randomized loops convolve around porous, dubby groove locks, tugging at each other in a call-and-response with howling static that cuts through bulbous ambient techno into a scrap-metal Dixieland phantasm. Stratified yet spacious, these sonic double exposures always hover on the verge of collapsing. What you think you hear might not be what you actually hear. The album's track titles resemble Conceptual Poetry, extending this psycho-phenomenological gesture into the realm of spoken language. Conceived by renowned poet Dagmara Kraus, they become word molecules -- "stern," "dies," "lose" -- tilting delicately between German and English, constantly changing depending on the ear's perspective and pointing back to the deeply unstable fabric connecting meaning and sound. Which also makes Öd an unusual cross-disciplinary collaboration -- at least in the field of electronic music.