alphacut 004 we are still here. don’t care what all the others are proclaiming. sit down, relax, we will help you against all 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. a1 nalpas - bad thing a2 hi-lar - prod 692 b1 mze - waterbwoy b2 jakin boaz - jaguarundi when listening to the first seconds of "bad thing" by nalpas it’s getting obvious why this is a must for the a-side opener. totally weird french bandoneons torn apart by idm breaks out of the picture book. and if all this is not enough you’ll get hit by this strange plastic kind-of bassdrum. after that hi-lar cools down with unusually rolling breaks and deep melodies, but not without leaving you alone, astonished of another odd straight bassdrum on this record. won’t be the last! on the flip comes another unexpected never tried hit formula, mze kicks ass with "waterbwoy", featuring edgy beats and this unforgetable bleeps synth, sweeping thru the full frequency range – for subliminal risks and side effects ask your local dealer, or probably just listen again and again. even more or less recovery gives you "jaguarundi" by jakin boaz. straight out of any musical drawer, he mashes up idm, acid and breakcore, resulting in a neverending raving loop. including 5 locked grooves. vinyl cut by sst. record manufacturing by rand. format: 12". white vinyl, labels & package. graphics stamped, sticked & written. catalogue number: ACR 004. number of pieces: lim 444. handmade in east germany. distributed by soundbase. out may 23rd 2005. artist profiles nalpas’ 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. "bad thing" was sequenced using the jeskola buzz tracker program. hi-lar, definitely known from all these internet bulletin boards, where he seems to feel comfortable by any meenings. seems like he is one of the next generation kids which fall in love in the worldwide web, but maybe he just gets no choice, living near the germanys so called 'jungle capital' mannheim, both the local scene and he keep on succesfully ignoring each other. he is a true audiophile fetishist in sounddesign, resulting in straight anti-dancefloor tracks, which would fit perfect in bright white rooms at national art galleries plus more or less audience drinking red wine and whatnot. previous hi-lar releases: remix: cube - sound engine (exgene rmx001) track: set one (soulseek 002) hi-lar home: www.ranprod.net 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 – uuh. 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? mze's cru home: www.pltn.org jakin boaz: 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, he moved to a area infected by fascists and became a little antifa fighter at first. later he remembered 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 not not, jakin boaz. previous jakin boaz releases: full length cd on trash tapes 36, several compilation appearances, eko remix on alphacut 001 contact jakin boaz: jakin boaz doesn’t have and never will have a homepage or email, get in contact thru alphacut hq. press reactions minority (tw) first three tracks point direct with broken beats and cutted 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. did you know that a jaguarundi is a minimalistic, dark'n rough tunnel-creature that lives in urban jungles in vicinity to ongaku's mihon3? maybe just approximately 15 (light) years far away. for these brain flashes: the best record of 2005!!!!