alphacut records - noskoolbreaks for bored intellectuals v/a - alphacut 005 artists society suckers, mze, iaka & cycom title alphacut 005 catalogue ACR 005 tracklist a1 society suckers & mze - fight b1 iaka - noloop b2 cycom - down the drain format 12inch white vinyl sleeve & labels 2 color offset print including ten locked grooves vinyl cut d&m berlin record manufacturing rand leipzig limited to 555, handnumbered sounds like drum&bass, coppage, edits, amen, rave, fakecore & swing release october 2nd 2006 distribution soundbase, toolbox, suburbantrash & ... 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! highspeed breakcore artists society suckers from berlin did a somehow unexpected collaboration with thuringia's drum&bass couchpotatoe number one: mze. the suckers' hookline is screwing into your eardrums, while mze's breaks, edits and basslines are hijacking your motion control system. be aware of the outro, when christian gierden shouts "remix!" and gets kinky with miss fink on vocals. hamburg massive in the house on the flipside: iaka's vinyl debut and long-time alphacut dubplate 'noloop' is chopping up breaks 'til your ears gonna bleed. but don't let him fool you: listen again and experience the even deeper background of the track, putting all the fragments together into a nice breakbeat journey. ride on! even more hamburg flavour is delivered by the second plainaudio head and familiar alphacut artist cycom. this time his work is digging in distorted breakbeats and deep twisting sounds. three minutes of pure science. not for djs really, but for true music lovers. alphacut records alphacut records was founded in 2002 as a drum&bass label with a strict whitelabel philosophy, featuring up and coming artists from all over europe. until today the imprint is being transformed into a platform for new kinds of energetic uptempo breakbeat tunes and beyond. we conceive and conduct a wide range of electronic music with a focus on broken beats, uncompromising sounds, experimental and informal innovations and a healthy bit of rough dancefloor attitude. alphacut records is releasing more or less dancefloor compatible experimental drum&bass 12inch artist split singles. mainly set up for djs and collectors, reflecting in features like locked grooves, handnumbered limitations and coloured vinyl. on the other hand, alphacute records is the sublabel for 7inch split releases with affiliated labels, showing the more nerdy background scene beyond the usual d&b bizness. so what we did and do is just to celebrate an honest, demanding & sophisticated d.i.y. style of presentation for our music, artists, records and parties. we proudly present real artist music and no narrow-minded internal-scene-crap, for your restful listening pleasure! demos are always apprechiated. its said that alphacut is one of the rare labels, who give feedback to every cd sent in. wow, unbelieveable! more or less of it, depending on your material, of course... however, don't hesitate to torture us with your noise. back catalogue ACE 001 7" 2006 v/a - pink ponys vs blue bytes (split with sozialistischer plattenbau from hamburg) ACE 000 7" 2006 lxxxc & tlic - three four bit bits / reflect (split with minorlabel from leipzig) ACR 004 12" 2005 v/a - alphacut 004 nalpas, hi-lar, mze & jakin boaz ACR 003 12" 2004 v/a - alphacut 003 bad matter & cycom (lxc remix) ACR 002 12" 2004 v/a - alphacut 002 mze vs lxc, hi-lar & hp.stonji get in touch LXC Weber Postfach 301326 04253 Leipzig Germany slsk: LXC aim: LXC808 myspace.com/alphacut bot@alphacutrecords.com www.alphacutrecords.com artist profiles society suckers location berlin headquarter www.society-suckers.com releases on labels like kool.pop, peace off, lux nigra & ohm52 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 ep' on kool.pop featured their trademark ultrahigh frequency melodies and precisely arranged hyper breakbeats, becoming a breakcore standard even 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. mze location leipzig headquarter mze.pltn.org releases 'stick em up' on alphacut 002 & 'waterbwoy' on 004 mze is an up&coming artist straight out of thuringia, still feeling at home in its local scene. leipzig? berlin? 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 still in love with drum&bass – uuh. we surely have to expect fresh & innovative stuff from this guy, but by the way: this should be a matter of course these days, eh? iaka location hamburg headquarter www.iaka.org releases on labels like plainaudio, dunkelbunt & sellout 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&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&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. cycom location hamburg headquarter cycom.plain-productions.de releases 'rude bwoy' on alphacut 001. further tracks on santorin, counter intelligence & plainaudio 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 tracker programs. 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&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.