v/a - alphacut 006 artists mze, martsman & nalpas title alphacut 006 catalogue ACR 006 tracklist a1 mze blut a2 nalpas oe part1 b1 martsman jump funk b2 nalpas oe part 2 format 12inch white vinyl sleeve & labels 2 color offset print including six locked grooves mastered and cut by lxc at r.a.n.d. limited to handnumbered 666 sounds like drum&bass, darkstep, rave pianos & other lovely hooklines distributed by toolbox, suburbantrash & sbm released may 7th 2007 without hesitating, this next alphacut release is getting things started right away with mze's dancefloor bomb blut, well-known from his awesome livesets in 2006. with dark moshing beats, evil stabs and a driving rave piano, the track is joining the ranks of alphacut's fakecore heaven. same goes for flipside jump funk by martsman. providing the probably catchiest ear worm for summer 2007, the track is taking you on a ride on tight beats, bouncy basslines and nice hooklines, giving the word 'cheesy' a completely new aspect - cutting edge and (ch)easy rolling at the same time. split bonus track oe shows perfectly nalpas' dilletantism of electronic music production. having little interest in establishing 'wisely directed' musicial links and connections he is feeling more and more intended to give up control and let the shitty pc do its diabolic work ad absurdum, searching for 'the music you hear when you press your finger on your ear'. artist profiles mze is an up&coming artist straight out of nice 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 and bass. 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...! location leipzig germany headquarter mze.pltn.org released 'stick em up' on alphacut 002 and 'waterbwoy' on alphacut 004 martin heinze a.k.a. martsman got into drum&bass around the end of the 90ies. 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 netlabels exegene and plainaudio have received recognition from all over the leftfield scene. location berlin germany headquarter martsman.de released on labels like offshore, breakin, counter intelligence, exegene and plainaudio nalpas' musicial influences include all styles and epochs.besides classical studies he played in bands and experimental projects. since 2002 he is producing breakbeat influenced electronic music. location paris france headquarter myspace.com/nalpas released 'bad thing' on alphacut 004 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. besides that, alphacute is a 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. so what we did and do is just to celebrate an honest, demanding and 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: don't hesitate to torture us with your noise. back cutalogue ACR 005 12" 2006 v/a alphacut 005 with society suckers & mze, iaka and cycom ACR 004 12" 2005 v/a alphacut 004 with nalpas, hi-lar, mze and jakin boaz ACR 003 12" 2004 v/a alphacut 003 with bad matter and cycom (lxc remix) ACE 010 7" 2007 v/a ... (title tbc, split with cold coffein addict from jena) with drop the lime, karl marx stadt, nalpas, mimaku spldat, amboss, corrupted files and cpuwar ACE 001 7" 2006 v/a pink ponies versus blue bytes (split with sozialistischer plattenbau from hamburg) with frederik schikowski, lords of gabber, karl marx stadt, error23 aka istari lasterfahrer and lxc ACE 000 7" 2006 lxxxc & tlic three four bit bits / reflect (split with minorlabel from leipzig) get in touch lxc@alphacutrecords.com www.alphacutrecords.com myspace.com/alphacut soulseek LXC aim LXC808 press reactions nitestylez.de (baze.djunkiii) may 7th sees the release of alphacut records' cat.no. 006, a triple-split 12" of mze, martsman and nalpas. a1 sees mze calling for "blut", which is - once again - a massive rave stomper on the more chopped up side of drum'n'bass. fat stabs and oldskool'ish rave sounds plus a dark vocal sample are responsible for a serious brockout on the dancefloor, even though the beats are tricky and it takes a bit until one is able to ride the groove properly. nalpas short'ish tunes "oe part 1" and "oe part 2" can be seen as additional experiments in fusing film noir'esque athmospheres and fucked up drill'n'bass / jungle instead, whilst martsman's "jump funk" is - as the tunes name already suggests - a tight mixture of serious drumfunk/choppage business and aphrodite's wobbly bassline of back in the days jump up tunes.