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Long live sets on machines she wires herself. New album, Field Recordings for Machines, out 14 November.

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Field Recordings for Machines

New album · 11 tracks · 14.11.2026

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■ Recordings

The new album, out 14 November on 2×12″ vinyl, CD and lossless download. Press play on the sleeve to hear it.

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Album · 2026 · NF-011

Field Recordings for Machines

Eleven tracks recorded live to tape over four nights in a disused tram depot in Leipzig. No overdubs, no laptop: one drum machine, two mono synths and a spring reverb that hums when the trams go past.

Formats · 2×12″ vinyl · CD · lossless download

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01Depot, 4 a.m.6:12
02Catenary II5:48
03Last Train Home7:03
04Signal Box Revisited5:21
05Overhead Lines6:40
06Night Field8:15

Also out

Depot Sessions, Vol. 2

Live · 2023

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Last Train Home

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■ Live

Twelve dates this winter, all played on the same six boxes. Rows marked Few left usually go within the week.

Every date and the set formats →

Next show · Sat 24 Oct 2026Live set

Leipzig

Tram Depot Plagwitz, DE

Few left · Tickets ↗

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Sat 31 Oct
2026RotterdamNLWerfhal NoordLive setSold outSold out

Sat 07 Nov
2026TbilisiGEKvartira HallVinyl DJ setOn saleTickets ↗

Sat 14 Nov
2026BerlinDEHalle am KanalAlbum launchFew leftTickets ↗

Sat 21 Nov
2026LisbonPTArmazém 9Hybrid setOn saleTickets ↗

Sat 28 Nov
2026GlasgowUKThe Engine ShedLive setOn saleTickets ↗

Sat 05 Dec
2026KrakówPLHala TramwajowaLive setFew leftTickets ↗

Sat 12 Dec
2026ParisFRLe Dépôt 11Live setSold outSold out

All twelve dates

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Every show goes to tape. The best four minutes of each night become the next record.

Live at the Tram Depot · Leipzig · 03:40

The rig

Six boxes and one cable loom. No laptop on stage: every sound in the set is made, cut and muted by hand, which is why no two nights sound the same.

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Drum machine

16 steps · 11 voices · it sends the tempo to everything else. The kick you have been hearing on this page is modelled on it.

Gallery

Photographs from the road, the depot and the booth, by the people who were there.

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Booth, Tbilisi, March

■ Journal

Notes from the studio, the road and the depot, written the morning after.

Read the journal →

02 Sep 2026Studio

Why every show gets recorded to tape

18 Aug 2026Rig

Building the rig for the album tour

04 Jul 2026Album

Four nights in the depot

Life works

Ida Nachtfeld grew up in Halle and moved to Leipzig for a sound-engineering course she never finished. She played her first live set in a basement in Plagwitz in 2014 on borrowed machines, and has not used a laptop on stage since. Four albums, a label of her own, and a tape of every show.

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First live set, a basement in Plagwitz, on borrowed machines.

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■ Recordings

Field Recordings for Machines

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■ Live

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Gallery

Archive

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Life works

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