at club Depo, 32 Valnu str., Riga, LV
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Big dancefloor: Breakcore/Jungle/Drumfunk/Dubstep
LXC – dj set (Alphacut, Offshore, Santorin) (full info below)
Sorry, there was mistake in previous information, LXC will not play live, but expect some fresh dubplates, ffx gear and carefully selected material on vinyl.
VXN (bio.codes) myspace.com/djvxn
Melnizz (bio.codes) myspace.com/djmelnizz
Nerone (polarities)
185 Thousand Of Feelings (DJ set+live vocal)
VJ’s:
Kavi (parastate999)
Max Voitech (ex Skalpel)
Small dancefloor:
Fresh Mess a.k.a. DJ Arkaans & DJ Pumpo
(3 x turntable, 2,5 hours performance of funk drum breaks, hiphop beats and experimental turntablism!)
Puma (Varka/Apofeoz) reggae/reggaeton
Rahaz Buzz (Apofeoz Sound System) dancehall/reggae
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LXC
Web: lxc.alphacutrecords.com
Labels: Offshore, Death$ucker, Santorin, Phantomnoise, Alphacut.
Location: Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany
Styles: Noskoolbreaks, Fakecore, Anti-Clockwize-Drum’n’Bass, …
LXC (‘leksi) is the man when it comes to hardcore Drum’n’Bass and weird Electronics.
Looking back to early sonic experiments with gabba kickdrums back in 1993, he made it to releases on labels such as Phantomnoise, Death$ucker, Offshore, Santorin and Plainaudio. In 2003, Alphacut Records was launched, providing Drum&Bass, Breakcore, so-called IDM and further trash. Under the flag of D.I.Y., LXC is A&R, producer, cutting enginieer, graphic designer and distributor, all in one person. Not to forget, there are activities as promoter since 1999, bringing not quantity but quality to the dancefloors over Leipzig. Party Series like Strukturbruch, Mash It and Alphacut Sessions proved it, featuring different international acts and loads of various styles. The future won’t be silent!
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First concept album:
Conceived as a kind of different D’n’B album for a couple of years, the LP entitled “We Have To Hold Apart” was born as a collection of really confusing & probably even refreshing Clicks’n’Bass tunes until the Winter of 2002/03. Sharply cut pieces of old school drum machines and disfigured crackles of synthosaurs create a shaky uptempo 7/8th bleep blues. Everything is screeching on a dusty silver tray, tasty served with juicy FX. Filled up with several ambient and illbient works, this LP shows all excesses LXC never has dared to get involved in before: minimal techno, dark downbreaks, field recordings and whatnot. Come in and never find out of this odd little world that is what Dn’B never was and IDM never will be. It became released in November 2005 by plainaudio.com
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Split genius
By the way LXC is working on several experimental projects like Apeiron, LXXXC, Mandragora and others, using electronic acoustics, synthesizer development, combining beats and handmade sounds on instruments like Viola or Bass, and sometimes also writing some special concept albums with blings & klonks, clicks & bass and whatnot which will probably never be released. Big things are coming up on collaboration fronts: The studio is becoming more and more into a place for affiliated artists to rework their ideas, signal processing and mastering. Watch out for works with Martsman, Karl Marx Stadt and Mackjiggah, just to name a few.
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Press pressure
drumzone.de (Iaka) about Phantomnoise 004
There won’t be any dilly-dallying, rightaway LXC is coming to the point when its about his debut, […] featuring these loaded Breakcore-tunes. Metallic snares and distorted and modulated basslines show how to break structure. In spite of its brutal kind the tunes is fits towards the club, because it simply rocks. […] A successful release, convincing the true breakcore lovers.
ouk (Lichtwald) about Phantomnoise 004
Complex rough beats with numerous breakdowns lead into a world of ist own. […] Extremely distorted beats and bass and many electronic whirlings […] The system gets upset, courageous and individual record.
Majesticstore about Phantomnoise 004
Hardcore Techno – can you say basssss!!! Phantomnoise is back with another dancefloor smasher. This time, this awsome hardcore label takes a new turn and drops out the 4/4th kick drum and replaces it with some deep, dark basslines. Add those to the hard industrial break beat behind it, and you have yourself a wikid Drum&Bass release. But don’t let it fool you, it is still fast enough to mix into the Hardcore sound, for those that like a little flavor with their core!!!
nitestylez.de (baze.djunkiii) about Phantomnoise 006
[…] however, LXC clings to extremly metallic sound aesthetics and manages to bring a completely ungroovy rolling stepper while having abstract Reinforced releases in mind. More, please.
Westberlin Distribution (raphael) about Phantomnoise 006
LXC chops the former Drum&Bass tune and rebuilts it as an absolutely crazy rhythm monster, […] hit and win, I would say.
Future Music (baze.djunkiii) about Phantomnoise 006
The remix by LXC on the flipside is practising metallic anti-funk […] – positive bleeps out of the phone, reverberating scratches and a silly bassline guarantee for good mood. […]
de:bug (Bleed) about Alphacut 002
damn break friendly Drum&Bass tracks of the scene from Leipzig, in the meantime still taking to a strange oldschool flavour with their totally silly Gabba bassdrums in the middle of a very smooth breakbeat fever, as well not deviating from the killersound. Two of the probably most provocative Drum&Bass tracks from Germany for a long time […] – a must.
PNG (Criticale) about Alphacut 002
The a side tune “Stick Em Up” of MZE and LXC from Leipzig starts with a sample, reminding me of Photek or Source Direct in the middle of the nineties. […] The following beats also make no secret out of their time referings. To go back further years in (D&B)-history, MZE and LXC are unpacking the rave piano. Quickly they are making clear with the thrown in bass – this is about party galore. You may call this oldschool or timeless. For me its definately the kind of Drum&Bass, why I never let anything elsecome to my ears.
Future Music (baze.djunkiii) about Alphacut 002
[…] “Stick Em Up” from the nib of MZE VS. LXC comes as a shifted deep tune, refining the original Intelligent Jungle concept of early Metalheadz releases with rave signals, fat Hardcore bassdrums and a proper portion of Darkjungle. Primetime stuff for advanced dancefloors.
de:bug (Bleed) about Santorin Limited 300
[…] the flipside is a monstrous with breaks, we haven’t heard since the experimental times of Digital und Dillinja in such a deep and brute way. Monster record.
Raveline (baze.djunkiii) about Santorin Limited 300
[…] on the flipside LXC is following his special liking for shifted Drum&Bass structures. This time a little bit more organic than usual for him, he is delivering fresh food for the Intelligent party.
drumandbass.de (Flowpro) about Santorin limited 300
[…] “The Most Important” is the name of the track by LXC, who is managing to make intelligent beat structures floor compatible and which is playing very nice with sounds, breaks und basslines!
c0p (HO) about Santorin Limited 300
[…] Flipping the record doesn’t mean lowering energy levels by the newcomer LXC. “The Most Important” bring us a combination of some thick’n’frenzy drumloops, jazzy textures flavoured by dub delays and heavy heavy basslines. Reminds me to the early Drum’n’bass but in a modern suit. If you think nowdays common sounding is not your partner in business, you should check this record out!
future-music.net (baze.djunkiii) about Santorin Limited 300
im my opinion its the best santorin in the whole label history. […] LXC on the flipside is more into broken structures. onthe overall sound its more organic and softer than usual and in this case its more settled in a photek wise context than on the dancefloor this time, but LXC’s handwriting is not to be mistaken. wasn’t there the term intelligent drum and bass, some years ago?
PNG (Criticale) about Alphacut 003
[…] LXC’s revision of the insane “Rude Bwoy” by Cycom is in no way inferior to the origin track when its about euphory. He chops the tune in best manners and lets soak t-shirts within minutes. If Drum&bass is energetic music, then like that.
nitestylez.de (baze.djunkiii) about Alphacut 003
[…], to shake the dancefloors of the republic. […] on the flipside LXC has remixed Cycom’s track “Rude Bwoy” and gave it a new anti-groovy beat skeleton, to which can only be danced by people with extreme body contro. [.]
DJ-Magazine (Lightwood) about Alphacut 003
[…] a wilful mix of ‘machine-music’ and dark Jungle came out, very varied knitted, with a great breakdown in the middle. Its hard to place in a mix, but definately a number which will attract attention. […]
Future Music (baze.djunkiii) about Alphacut 003
[…] LXC is remixing the track “rude bwoy” by cycom on the flipside and delivers a varying, brutely fast and against-the-stroke-brushed beat, I may safely call anti-funk. […] again LXC drops the abstract edit breaks, so its just crashing. Recommended for very advanced dancefloors.
de:bug (Bleed) about Phantomnoise 010
The latest Phantomnoise brings back the times of the stepperbeats and I wish Ii were back in 96 again. LXC makes this perfectly and until the last ravestab with an enthusiasm, I totally can comprehend. […]
nitestylez.de (baze.djunkiii) about Phantomnoise 010
Meanwhile also Phantommoise Records reached the release range of two digits in the catalogue number and delivers with the “Rave Is Back EP” by LXC an potential hit in Dark Jungle. The intro of the a-side uses well-known sounds of the Bonzai-rave-hymn “Calling Earth” and garnishs them with knife-sharp stepping beats, holding back when its about the Rave thing, while its referings can not be denied. Just “Rave Is Back Again” on the b-side gets totally involved in pianostabs and a classic acidline, standing in my caseas a dubplate since a while for this reason. Like this Drum’n’Bass / Darkjungle is big fun…
Belgradeyard Sound (HR) (goran) about Phantomnoise 010
One of our favorite producers on Hardcore Drum&Bass / Jungle scene is LXC, the man who releases for great Phantomnoise label. He just put out a new single which brings us back in the heated atmosphere of the clubs in the beginning of nineties, when Rave scene was so strong all over Europe. Single’s called (what else then): Rave Is Back, and is pressed on green fluorescent 12″ vinyl, which gives a perfect shape to the whole story.
Prinz Leipzig (sha) about Phantomnoise 010
Never before a name was more program than at this 12 inch! With “Rave Is Back” LXC creates a dark, reduced to the necessities, Drum’n’Bass Rave track and in order to claim for the style’s hit of the year. It follows a extremly broken “Rave Is Back Again” on the b-side, which should make it hard to dance for spoilt house-girls and boys. however, the technoid punx will brightly pleased throw theirselves into the strobe-crossfire.
Raveline (Lightwood) about Phantomnoise 010
Two trashy, jigsawed compounded quotation collections with wild fading beats. Who wants to smile, should smile. Who wants to rave, should rave. I’m raving smiling. Homage? Tool? Gimmick? Collectors’ piece? The last Drum’n’Bass record on Earth? Everything is possible. Extreme record. Fantastic record.
nitestylez.de (baze.djunkiii) about Alphacut 007
Alphacut Records sees the release of its cat.no. 007 soon, a triple split of Alpha Omega, Sumone and label head honcho LXC, dedicated to the more experimental side of dubwise Halfstep Drum’n’Bass […]. LXC’s “Lock In” transfers his understanding of what halfspeed stuff means into the realms of Electronica / Glitch / Drill’n’Bass. Limited to 777 copies worldwide, so make sure to grab yours quickly.
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Discography
LXC only & vinyl milestones:
Mashnum PI – Wannabeatz (bad bluntclan & version on Move It, 7″, 2006)
LXC – We Have To Hold Apart (11 track album on Plainaudio, MP3, 2005)
Mandragora – Frost Session (95min live recording on Minorlabel, Tape, 2005)
LXC – Rave Is Back (2 tracks plus 8 loops on Phantomnoise, 12″, 2004)
LXC – Strukturbruch EP (3 tracks plus 4 loops on Phantomnoise, 12″, 2002)
More on vinyl:
VA – We Bomb Fi Dub 3 (LXC feat. Karl Marx Stadt – Rinzo on Sozialistischer Plattenbau, 12″, 2008)
Sileni / Hi-Lar (incl. LXC remix of Back On Trip on Offshore, 12″, 2008)
VA – Alphacut 007 (LXC – Lock In on Alphacut, 12″, 2008)
DJ C – Sonic Weapons EP (LXC Remix of Who Wah Seek Yo on Death$ucker, 12″, 2007)
VA – Pink Ponies Versus Blue Bytes (LXC – Dagegen II & Karl marx Stadt – Bluebox LXXXC Refix on Alphacute-Sozialistischer-Plattenbau Split, 7″, 2006)
LXXXC – Three Four Bit Bits / Tlic – Reflect (Alphacute-Minorlabel Split, 7″, 2006)
VA – A-Core 23 Soldiers Of Fakecore (LXXXC, Herr Weber and several more trash on this compilation, 12″ / Tape / CDR / MP3, 2005)
Hp.stonji – Melaina Chole Remixes (LXC’s 247 remix on Phantomnoise, 12″, 2005)
VA – Alphacut 0023 (LXC Remix of Cycom’s Rude Bwoy on Alphacut, 12″, 2004)
Thetaphi – Rainbow Scout / LXC – The Most Important (Santorin Limited, 12″, 2004)
VA – Alphacut 002 (MZE vs LXC – Stick Em Up on Alphacut, 12″, 2003)
Rush The Remixes (LXC Remix w/ Society Suckers on Phantomnoise, 7″, 2003)
VA – Space Odyssey (LXC – Dropscience on Feinkost13, 12″ picture disc, 2002)
CD compilation apearances:
VA – Alpengl¸hen (LXC – Dagegen & Apeiron – Kleinstadt 89 on Dhyana Compilation, CDR & MP3, 2007)
VA – Minority (LXC – Studendenfutter on Minorlabel Compilation, CD, 2006)
Roland Schneider – Ohne Musik Macht Es Keinen Spass (LXC Remix on Dhyana, CDR+VCD, 2006)
VA – Crispy Crapy Christmas Compilation (LXC – Immer Wieder Mal on track on Sozialistischer Plattenbau Compilation, 3″ CDR, 2005)
LXC – The Rise Of LXC (11 track worst-of album on Trash Tapes, CDR, 2003)
LXC – live 2001 (9 track live album on Trash Tapes, CDR, 2001)
VA – Even If (LXC – Deny on Trash Tapes, CDR, 2001)
soon: LXC appears on schedules of labels like Subtle Audio, Death$ucker, Santorin, Alphacut & others… watch out!
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SPY-SEED JAH:NGLE / SPY-SEED DRUMSTORM is monthly parties covering styles Jungle, Drumfunk, Liquid Drum’n’bass, Dubwise, Reggae, Dancehall, Dub, Reggaeton, Dubstep. We started it in 2003, providing positive minded people of Riga and abroad with hottest parties in the town. All the best Latvian DJs play or played there. No hard tunes, only quality faya-bun!
Love/Peace. Organised by Varka Kru.
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Entrance fee 4 Ls before / 5 Ls after 23.00.