alphacut records
releasing more or less dancefloor compatible experimental drum&bass breakcore idm 12inch artist split singles. mainly set up for djs and collectors, reflecting in features like locked grooves, handnumbered limitations and coloured vinyl.
alphacut 007 out now!
done in april 2008, limited to 777, white 12" vinyl, including three locked grooves a1alpha omega concrete pillows b1sumone rhythm machine b2lxc lock in
at a time when everything feels said about upfront drum&bass tunes and all so-called heads turn back to deeper shades of bass like dubstep, even alphacut headquarters' feel like its time for some really meditative 180bpm breakbeat rides, walls of dub and - of course - subbass!
"if there hasn't been a label like alphacut yet, one should go and invent it. it is providing drum&bass and darkjungle with innovation and high quality and will probably save the genre from decay somewhen." (raveline)
"very nice release of odd drum and bass. that sumone tune is especially deep!" (c64)
"alphacut 7 is real dope! the cutting is damn loud, i played it yesterday in a small private party and almost destroyed the pa!" (fred e.)
alphacut 006
done in may 2007, limited to 666, white 12" vinyl, including six locked grooves a1mze blut a2nalpas oe part 1 b1martsman jump funk b2nalpas oe part 2
without hesitating, this next alphacut release is getting things started right away with mze's dancefloor bomb 'blut', followed by martsman's probably catchiest ear worm for summer 2007.
on top of this double a side you'll find some weird buzz tracking dillentantisms by nalpas.
"different bussiness, i'm feeling it. street music - goin' on dark!" (bailey on bbc 1xtra)
"three powerful productions from the house of alphacut." (debug)
alphacut 005
done in october 2006, limited to 555, white 12" vinyl, including ten locked grooves a1society suckers & mze fight b1iaka noloop b2cycom down the drain
alphacut strikes back with three deadly weapons of sound, residing somewhere between drum&bass, breakcore, drumfunk and fake-swing. destroying musical borders as usual, the fifth release is darker, faster and much more broken than the ones before. how can this be possible? mmh, just take a listen!
"there are three very evily rocking dark drum&bass tracks, which may be a match for something happening between alpha omega and intasounds. definately a must for all seeking for drumn&bass, which is standing widely besides the scene but having monumental deepness." (debug)
alphacut 004
done in may 2005, limited to 444, white 12" vinyl, 5 locked grooves a1nalpas bad thing a2hi-lar prod 692 b1mze waterbwoy b2jakin boaz jaguarundi
we are still here. don't care what all the others are proclaiming. sit down, relax, we will help you against today's bad musical influences. because everyone is telling us that we do so, we have to believe and push it forward. even if all this should be a lie, the music will make it come true.
quite different styles on one 12inch, from idm to weird d&b and back. sometimes shameless, sometimes deep. hits you from behind.
"first three tracks point direct with broken beats and cut straightness into weirdness shortly touching tangofeeling and vibrating doing-doing attitude. hybrid anti-d'n'b that fights for itself by homaging certain deadlines of 4/4-drive. for these brain flashes: the best record of 2005!" (minor)
alphacut 003
done in march 2004, limited to 500, white 12" vinyl, 8 locked grooves a1bad matter jazzthing b1cycom rude bwoy lxc rmx
breaks, breaks, breaks. we introduce a nearly unknown and upcoming talent from berlin: bad matter, the lost soul of jungle from germany with his very first vinyl release. listen to it and you will remember former droppin' science kind-of-stuff, made of jazz breaks and tube basslines. alphacut 001 hit the advanced dancefloors across europe one year ago, and now the mighty 'rude bwoy' strikes back: lxc redisigned cycom's work into a dark metal soldier, forcing all sophisticated feet to dance.
"definately spreading even more fire than the releases number one and two. if drum&bass really is energetic music, then this way!" (png)
"build to shake the dancefloors of the republic." (raveline)
"alphacut is bangin drum and bass from germany. all of their releases to date have been drop and this one is no exception." (soundclash)
alphacut 002
done in feb. 2004, limited to 500, white 12" vinyl, 8 locked grooves a1mze vs lxc stick em up b1hi-lar prod 055 b2hp.stonji reej
after a short break alphacut strikes back with this 3-track vinyl, supporting once again and surely not the last time up and coming artists from all over europe. lxc is cooperating with newcomer mze from leipzig, hi-lar is experiencing his first vinyl release and the hp.stonji guys are coming to open your ears for some odd electronics.
"the most challenging drum&bass tracks from germany for a long time - a must!" (debug)
"definately that kind of drum&bass, for which i haven't got everything else to my ears for years. nice and courageous release." (png)
"this is primetime stuff for advanced dancefloors!" (future music)
alphacut 001
done in jan. 2003, limited to 500, white 12" vinyl, handnumbered a1cycom rude bwoy b1buzz powerplant b2lxc eko jakin boaz rmx
even 3 different artist clash together on the first alphacut record: the triangle between hamburg, dortmund and leipzig became spread and shows alphacut's openness and range. the direction of music is mainly thought for the dancefloor, however nevertheless also for the brains. there are breaks, drops and other weird stuff - whatever the sequencer spits out to make your feet busy again.
"no dumb hardcore, but blessed with the spice and the roughness of a record from the underground. amen." (dhyana)
"for rude boys and beat digger" (ouk)
"pleasingly far away from average british stuff" (repertoire)
alphacute records
sublabel for 7inch split releases with affiliated labels, showing the background scene beyond the usual d&b bizness, dealing with experimental electronics of all kinds imaginable.
the alphacuties are looking forward to forthcoming split releases with labels like dhyana, jahtari, hirntrust and you?
alphacute 010 / cold coffein addict 055
"the whereabouts of 97", to be released in september 2007, limited to 400, red 7" vinyl, red cover, red label stamps a1drop the lime bastardu the end is here mix by karl marx stadt a2nalpas good morning c1mimaku spldat ad hoc orac c2amboss ausbruch feat. corrupted files c3cpuwar mrrdr drums b57 remix
following up in alphacute series is something like a retrospective on breakcore (or whatever), not to consume with a bit of smiling and a bit of regret, but always with a blink. not only featuring society suckers' hannibal karl marx stadt one more time (this time chopping up dtl), our cute looking vinyl also holds even more so-called heroes like vancouver trash dons cpuwar or phantomnoise' breaknroll inventer mimaku spldat from berlin. enjoy this unbeatable split release with tremor's cold coffein addict label from jena.
alphacute 001 / sozialistischer plattenbau 7014
"pink ponies versus blue bytes", done in october 2006, limited to 500, black 7" vinyl, lovely pink cover a1frederik schikowski mein kleines pony lords of gabber remix a2karl marx stadt blue box refix s1error23 bytes don't cry s2lxc dagegen ii
note: karl marx stadt is lords of gabber is the end is society suckers devided by two. also note: error 23 is istari lasterfahrer himself. this next strike on the alphacut sister label holds stuff from console gabba to blueskoolbreaks. split with istari lasterfahrer's sozialistischer plattenbau from hamburg.
alphacute 000 / minor 011
"three four bit bits / reflect", done in march 2006, limited to 300, black 7" vinyl, double layer cover a1lxxxc 4 lil bits a2lxxxc prick up a3lxxxc crowd complain alert m1tlic dying in rooms m2tlic research[ed]
fresh trash with 4 bits, plastic bleeps and gameboy idm vs hippie industrial. prelaunch of alphacut sister label alphacute. split with minorlabel from leipzig.
"very dark but extremly cool 7inch of five tracks filled with teared tensions and pure digitally shreddered funk. somehow this could have been the way how electronica may have moved on. you gotta have courage for abstract stuff, then even the funk will rattle." (debug)
affiliated labels & releases
releases by alphacut artists and their environment, leipzig scene trash and some merchandise is waiting here for you to get explored.
offshore 020 out now!
done in 2008, black 12" asileni black rocket bhi-lar back on trip lxc remix
boh! finally here - some copies of offshore number 20 together with almighty chris sileni!
"black Rocket is a banger in the vein of the dirty 98 bristol" ... "the remix is steppy, but at the same time it hits hard and holds the listeners interest with edits and an array of sounds all meticulously engineered"
suburban trash industries 024
done in may 2007, black 12" society suckers cheesemonsters are go! ep a1 zettai remix a2 the beaver song a3 live in lublin b1 diamonds b2 the end
full on cheese hysteria! heavy sampling thru as many music genres, movies, a whole bunch of records, cd's and all that, precisely chopped and well arranged into something that easily could be called 'cheesecore' as its almost over the top. just when you thought rave was dead, they're gonna proof its not. put on your dancing shoes and go berserk!
sozialistischer plattenbau 12012
done in 2008, black 12" a1the next kabul a2lxc feat karl marx stadt rinzo b1nickynutz & ... reflexe b2jah seal jah souldior remix
part three of spb's dubstep 12" series 'we bomb fi dubs', again with a wicked range of dub styles and step styles. with acts from germany and france, finest tune selection by istari lasterfahrer!
nasdia 004
done in october 2006, black 12" a1throttler offensive segment b1throttler shadowchasing b2throttler breakz
leipzig connewitz d&b massive presenting greek nation of distortion don dj throttler... ruff & fast hardcore d&b, drop it!
santorin limited 300 a1thetaphi rainbow stout b1lxc the most important
monstrous funksound: "reminds me to the early d&b but in a modern suit. if you think nowdays common sounding is not your partner in business, you should check this record out!" (c0p from hungary)
plain productions 002 a1barth schizophrenic b1barth cyclotron
never forgotten but often underestimated leftfield d&b floor tools having state of the art break sneakings AND rocking the gals on the dancefloor! when did you ever get this combination, eh?
move it 001
done in march 2006, limited to 300, blue 7" vinyl, strictly handmade sprayed and stamped artwuerg a1mashnum pi wannabeatz b1mashnum pi wannabeatz version
spontanously pressed senseless d&b mashup / bootleg single by fakecore boygroup mashnum pi, produced by lxc. "floor smashers were yesterday, this is rave armageddon"
space odyssey lp v/a from leipzig
done in summer 2002, limited to 300, picture disc a1lxc dropscience a2smooth pilots moonlight instr. b1goepfert & laabs homage
b2 sevensol & bender gonna... b1tonantrieb rohrlaut b4alb the lad of a great future
b5 dreadmore globe b1s.u.f.f. haschischmädchen
b7 sova am meer
nice 9 track picture disc lp with various artists, all of them exclusively from leipzig: featuring lxc, smooth pilots, jakin boaz & many more. arised of a spontaneous idea in 2002, meanwhile this release has become to a collectors must-have-item! be fast, cause there are only a few pieces left.
the official fakecore t-shirt!
we have made something to wear for all you 100% fakecore clones out there. its mighty black and its got a really heavy white "fakecore will never lie" print on front. ... meanwhile its sold out - download the tiff data and print your own shirt by yourself! also, don't forget to send us fancy pictures about your results.
buttons
alphacut badges with black, red, green, blue and orange logos, plus the pretty girly pogo pony and the move it one.
1 euro each badge.
sticker
alphacut, fakecore, strukturbruch, flop beat disk and many more: free sticker, flyer and more trash with every order...
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after you sent the order we'll get in contact with you through an email including all information. usually the pricing is 7 euro for a 12inch and 5 euro for a 7inch. the postage which is to be added to your order for up to ten records is: eur 4 in germany, eur 9 in europe and 13 in rest of world. want more? ask and we will find out.
generally we prefer transfers and paypal, accepting no cash or checks. until we've received of the full payment the items remain full property of alphacut. alphacut operates on a non-profit basis, your order will be handled privatly. all sales are used to cover our expences, if this would be possible at all.
also you may check our list of stuff we sell thru discogs! loads more of jungle, breakcore, idm, experimental, hardcore and some recently added 2nd hand drum&bass vinyl. check it out!
artist profiles
get to know all featured acts of alphacut releases. finally, some of them are available for booking, right here. get in touch for information and audio.
alpha omega
appearance live
style d&b jungle needs no intro
releases tons of stuff on labels like reinforced, thermal, outbreak, soothsayer and skunkrock
location kildare (ir)
headquarter myspace.com/colinlindo
alpha omega a.k.a colin lindo a.k.a nubian mindz has been constantly pushing the boundaries of cutting edge drum and bass since his groundbreaking debut release, outer dimensions, on the equally groundbreaking & legendary reinforced imprint back in 1996. since then he has gone on to forge a universal respect within the scene & has firmly established his presence on the d&b industry not only in uk, but also on the state side. now going full circle & returning to his dj'ing & soundsystem background, alpha omega will continue to push the boundaries & continue his astonishing musical development.
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mze
appearance live
style d&b straight / choppage
releases 'stick em up' with lxc on alphacut 002, 'waterbwoy' on alphacut 004, 'fight' with society suckers on alphacut 005
location leipzig (de)
headquarter mze.pltn.org
mze is an up&coming artist straight out of thuringia, still feeling at home in its local scene. leipzig? whatever should be going on there? he is an addicted home producer forgetting everything around when doing his beats & basses. sounds like strictly nerd stuff - but he is sill in love with drumnbass – ooh. we surely have to expect fresh & innovative stuff from this guy, by the way: this should be a matter of course these days, isn’t it?
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society suckers
appearance live
style breakcore pogo trash rave
releases 'fight' with mze on alphacut 005, further tracks on lux nigra, mental ind., mash, peace off, amex & kool.pop
location berlin (de)
headquarter society-suckers.com
the society suckers make frantic, precisely arranged psychedelic pogo trash music. born out of a frustration with emotionless dance music, 1997's debut "anti-carnivore" on kool.pop featured their trademark ultrahigh frequency melodies and precisely arranged hyper breakbeats, becoming a breakcore standard before the genre had a name. their live shows blend focused turntable skills with emotionally charged gear tormenting - it's a manic combination of breakcore opera, rave hooks, pogo anthems and structural mayhem. they have a long history of performing in europe and recently north america, with artists such as venetian snares, dj scud, patric catani, kid606, din-st, dj/rupture, hrvatski, drop the lime, and melt banana.
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sumone
appearance live
style d&b vs idm deep vs wild
released on labels like sprengstoff, mash, black track, aural carnage and zion's gate
location indianapolis (us)
headquarter myspace.com/sumone317
sumone's musical interests did develope from hardcore punk, grindcore and industrial to techno, jungle and breakcore in 1995, listening to stuff from remarc to alec empire, falling in love with the 'harder wild amen programming styles'. some excursions in djing drum&bass and production with some free software followed. finally, 2005 was the year to take off: five releases on vinyl, and more are about to come as we speak. by the way he's an addicted live performer, providing various styles from deep and slow drum and bass to weird and ultra-fast idm choppage. catch him live when he's near your town, won't regret!
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bad matter
appearance dj
style d&b dark & baaad
releases 'jazzthing' on alphacut 003, further tracks on intransigent, hells bassment & plain
location berlin (de)
headquarter audiomassive.de
bad matter, also known as fixed frequency, born in berlin, acquired a lot of musical influences over the years in this city . his interest to do "something" with music increased and he started dj´ing at home in 1992, first steps in sequencing followed 2 years later. many different kinds of music derived from projects with friends or work for theatres, but he liked (broken-) beats from the very beginning. jungle / drum&bass was "love on first sight" and he focused more and more on it. now, involved in the audiomassive crew from berlin, he works as a dj, producing with them, others and solo. the contact to lxc / alphacut came via the internet and it resulted in this first cut.
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iaka
appearance dj
style d&b leftfield but straight
releases 'noloop' on alphacut 005, further tracks on plainaudio, dunkelbunt & sellout
location hamburg (de)
headquarter iaka.plainaudio.com
iaka released his first acidtracks on coloured vinyl in 1993. despite his indian roots, he escaped the back-then trendy goa-vibes and instead got involved with drum'n'bass. in 1997, he founded plain productions in order to freely distribute his musical ideas to other like-minded fellows, without having to compromise. today's productions by iaka are marked by a great love of detail and well-balanced arrangements. the foundation for his own blueprint of drum'n'bass is the modulation of sounds and beats. that's why there often are complex drum patterns and demanding beat structures in his tracks. in hamburg, he is mostly known as a dj and as one of the people organising the drumbule-parties. there, he regularly surprises people with two fisted club-sets, which stand in sharp contrast to his own productions.
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martsman
appearance dj
style d&b strange but friendly
releases 'jump funk' on alphacut 006, further tracks on offshore, bassbin's breakin, counter intelligence, subtle audio, plainaudio & exegene
location berlin (de)
headquarter martsman.de
martin heinze a.k.a. martsman got into drum&bass around the end of the 90s. artists like alpha omega, 4 hero, sonar circle and squarepusher had a formative influence on him during the first years and after witnessing a paradox live set in 2001, his ever growing interest in drum&Bass evolved to the point where he began to produce his own music. with his affection for prominent basslines and stumbling breaks in combination with glitchy edits and bleepy minimalism, martsman has developed a unique musical style which extends the current perception of drum&bass. his vinyl debut in 2005 on new york based offshore recordings as well as digital releases on net-labels exegene and plainaudio have received recognition from all over the leftfield scene.
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mfo
appearance vj
style vector terror avantgarde gfx
location leipzig (de)
headquarter mifop.de
mfo is a leipzig based video artist, making visuals live to electronic music since 2001. his work is stamped by a fragmentary, playful way to arrange moving images - animated, scripted, sound synchronous and influenced by random generator. utilizing his own software he is capable of cutting this world into pieces, to form an own vision, to open a new perspective.
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buzz
appearance producer
style d&b deep & broken
releases 'powerplant' on alphacut 001, further tracks on plain, exegene and touchin down
location frankfurt a.m. (de)
headquarter buzz.plainaudio.com
buzz found his fascination for producing music in the the mid 90's inspired by the records of artists like dj krust, tricky, optical & photek. he quickly did realize the possibilities of recording & sampling and started his first productions which were spread via the infamous 'subway'-website. in 2001 he gave his debut on alphacut recordings with his 'powerplant' track what gave him the boost to push his musical development with new energy forwoard. 2005 he transformed with his mates (cycom, iaka & flowpro) plainproductions into a complete netlabel called plainaudio & got after his 'soulburn' release immediately singned to other labels like touchin down and exegene. buzz' tracks - often abstract, frightening and gloomily sinister - show a great love of detail. power, movement and complexity are the key criteria which constitute his style and the thickly layered and interwoven samples create a compact, yet stormy and intriguing sound. his music is marked by reggae & dubvocals, feedback-delays and subsonic basslines, which melt with funk beats in his constantly well-heated sound-reactor.
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cycom
appearance producer
style d&b shaky breaky
releases 'rude bwoy' on alphacut 001 and 'down the drain' on alphacut 005, further tracks on counter intelligence, plain & santorin
location hamburg (de)
headquarter cycom.plainaudio.com
cycom is the lucky one which introduces the first sounds of our new little imprint: the a side of alphacut 001. native from mainz (germany) but today living in hamburg, he had already been publishing on different drum'n'bass labels before. his beats are compelling, edited in a precisely matching way. cycom's trademark sound results from the superimposition of several samples, followed by subtractive editing, contributing to a very individual colouring within his music. his releases on other labels like santorin show his affinity towards music beyond stilistic frontiers. the idiosyncrasy of the bedroom-studio-advocate lies in his way of production: a shareware-tracker, called jeskola buzz, that represents a remote relative of the former trackerprograms. cycom aka thomas fleischer was born 1974 and started making electronic music on his c64 aged 12. since then the love for music and beats kept him constantly exploring new musical terrain. after playing in several "conventional" bands his mind got turned to electronic beats again, as he discovered jungle in 1993.
producing drum'n'bass since 1995, he took some time to perfect his sound and released his first 12" in september 2001 after doing various remixes for artists like simon v, barth or chaoz.
hi-lar
appearance producer
style d&b scientific very-own
releases 'prod 055' on alphacut 002 and 'prod 692' on alphacut 004, further tracks on soulseekrecords & exegene
location darmstadt (de)
headquarter ranprod.net
hi-Lar produces electronic music, grown up close to germanys 'jungle capital' mannheim, but musically raised by several places on the web, he sees his tunes mainly as a reaction and often a counterpart to what he hears. coming from d&b, moving on to explore aspects of possible and sometimes imaginary clubmusic.
jakin boaz
appearance producer
style idm deep / acid
releases 'eko rmx' on alphacut 001, 'jaguarundi' on alphacut 004, further tracks on denke denke & trash tapes
location leipzig (de)
once a time in leipzig, there was a young boy visiting a friend and tracking his mini keyboard. just playing around and there it was: sound 78 - it was all up with him. he had to have this sound, and thanks to his mother he was going to get it. first steps were done. years go by, but finally he did remembering on making music and began playing guitar in a punk-band in 1996. when it became too harsh and monotounous he quit. nevertheless possessed by sound he was searching for new ground. but what to do? he thought of his old keyboard casio sa-1 and called his musical spirit with good old sound 78 - by the way - called "computersound". now endless worlds opened to him. and because he's not dead, he can be seen on several live gigs around and until today he's making musik of many different colours. the one of the story is me, jakin boaz.
lxc
appearance producer
style d&b fakecore all&nuthin
releases 'stick em up' with mze on alphacut 002, 'rude bwoy rmx' on alphacut 003, further tracks on alphacute, plain, a-core, santorin, phantomnoise & trash tapes
location leipzig (de)
headquarter lxc.alphacutrecords.com
lxc is the man when it comes to hardcore drum'n'bass and weird electronics from leipzig. looking back to early sonic experiments with gabba kickdrums back in 1993, he made it to releases on labels such as death$ucker, phantomnoise, santorin and plainaudio. upcoming stuff on offshore, subtle audio and sozialistischer plattenbau are promising to continue a path of an unique sound and fx design. in 2003, alphacut records was launched, providing drum'n'bass, breakcore, so-called idm and further trash. under the flag of d.i.y., lxc is a&r, producer, cutting engineer, graphic designer and distributor, all in one person. not to forget, there are activities as promoter since 1999, bringing not quantity but quality to dancefloors all over leipzig. party series like strukturbruch or mash it proved it, featuring international acts and loads of various styles. the future won't be silent!
nalpas
appearance producer
style d&b jungle / experimental
releases 'bad thing' on alphacut 004
location paris (fr)
his first contact with musical manipulation methods might have been in the middle 80s by putting scotch tape on big band records. beside playing written music by bach and avantgarde composers on his classical guitar he continued creating music including all kinds of noise and sound. he played in rockbands and experimental projects using buildings, musicial instruments, electronics, junk, cars, etc. as sound sources. in the late 90s nalpas gained his studies of solo guitar music as well as music theory and history from the last 1000 years and beyond. after working on ambient projects he started creating more breakbeat influenced music in 2001 as a result of his need of a more direct and immediate approach to sound.
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mixes & sets
compressed alphacut and related sounds to explore this little universe much easier than listening to all the release previews in the middle, all together now!
for homies, lazies, mamas, papas, dudes, mates and whoever - download now and rave on!
alphacut mix 2k6mp3coverplaylist
from 80bpm downtempo to d&b, raggajungle and breakcore to high speed gabber rave and back to the dubstep chambers, thru the sounds of those who are: bad matter, iaka, martsman, hi-lar, mendelayev, nalpas, dis, lxc, mze, society suckers, error23, random bit generator and karl marx stadt
alphacut mix 2k3mp3coverplaylist
from deep relaxed jungle to fat & broken d&b, with stuff from the ones like: barth, source di