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cutandboost is your top tier mastering service and is electrified by Simon Uter-Kirschey working out of Berlin, Germany.

It is a really great pleasure to offer superb audio mastering to independent artists and labels locally and around the world.

Greattest enhancement is the goal and each project is approached with individualized care to deliver the most powerful and expressive masters possible to the clients.

High quality analog gear marries with the best digital software to retain the artistic and musical integrity – clear and detailed without a doubt. Perfect for all purposes in mastering.

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Mastering is setting a final glance to the source material while keeping true to the spirit of the mix – it is finishing your vision. In use are customized analog tools and the best digital software to realize the need of sonic impact.

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In the following you get an impression of what is mastered here at cutandboost. Here it is not every release listed, just a selection of mostly EP and album releases.


21/03/25 – HOTFiLTER – WAHRE LiEBE
digital release



After dropping a numerous singles since 2022, Hotfilter’s first EP Wahre Liebe is out now.
The trio of dudes worked almost one year on six punk-ish bangers and recorded them live in their rehearsal room to bring a kind of this spirit to their audience. Succeeded.
Recorded, mixed and released by themselves.

11/02/25 – SCHLiMM – BRACHLANDOASE
digital release

This six song EP by the german hardcore-punk crew Schlimm is entitled Brachlandoase (Barren Land Oasis) and is presented as it named. Quiet socio-critical lyrics with well thought-out heavy guitar-driven fundamentals creates the named atmosphere within a few minutes.

30/01/25 – BATPiSS – THE OTHERS
digital release – (Poison City Records)



This is Batpiss‘ third single The Others out of their forthcoming album There Is A Place In My Mind Where We All Burn Alive which will release through Poison City Records in April 2025.

These dudes are kind of well known in the independent alternative noise rock scene down under. It is just a question of time, when they will know here as much as they do there. Stay curious.


“In 2024 cutandboost mastered almost for 2025 releases – So, in 2024 there was a few releases by artists who have mastered stuff here and are already released, but this section is more about an impression of what genre is mastered and not about the numerous of releases from the same artists, for instance.“ Simon


24/11/23 – morgen/grauen – DiSCOMFORT ZONE
vinyl and casstte release (SM, Trümmer Pogo, Sedum, Fies Ins Gesicht Records)

These hardcore punk dudes out of Leipzig, Germany, releases this EP as a split-release w/ We Are Doomed. Since 2020 morgen/grauen have been combining hardcore punk, crust and metal with a dash of German pogo punk to create a rough sound. They also find clear words in their lyrics – personal experiences.

You can listen to the “original“ vinyl master or grab one through their bandcamp page.

01/09/23 – LA CASA AL MARE – THiS ASTRO
vinyl release (Dreams Never End Records)

La Casa Al Mare is a shoegaze crew out of Rome, Italy, and This Astro was already released digitally back in 2015. After some re-recordings and extra stuff recorded, the dudes decided to release this banger on vinyl through Dreams Never End Records, a little underground label out of Berlin, Germany. They also released a new song as a single with the re-recorded song Still Burn.

You can grab the vinyl through Dreams Never End Records and hear the single Still Burn/Summer Is Over here…

12/05/23 – DONKEYCHOTE – NO PRESSURE (SiNGLE)
digital release (Golden Ticket Tapes)

Donkeychote is a renowned Berlin based multi-instrumentalist who produces lo-fi instrumental hip hop in many different types. No Pressure is more a kind of a jazzy feeling with a straight forward beat, very relaxed. No wonder Golden Ticket Tapes released it – “Instrumental hip hop is our passion“.

03/03/23 – ANNES EX – SCHWER EMOTiONAL
digital release

The four musicians from Bremen, Germany, create a sound that is both fresh and familiar. Far removed from platitudes and calculated German pop posturing. With a good feel for harmonies and a sharp mind. Introspective lyrics are paired with catchy melodies and hard riffs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the guys don’t remain an insider tip for too long.

Only listenable through spotify.


24/02/23 – KUNFU – CAN’T ESCAPE THE FUNK
digital release

KUNFU is a German beat-producer who marries classical hip hop beats with lo-fi samples which invites to nodding your head. Escape The Funk features DJ C.S.P on all scratches and Almighty Warpath spitting on one song for this EP.

17/12/22 – MAD MONKS – EL LOKO KARACHO
digital and vinyl release (Blackmonk Records)

El Loko Karacho is a musical circus of ska punk, pop punk and smart rock music. Mad Monks devestate the german undergound music-landscape since almost 20 years and with its fourth album they melting all their experiences in one great album.

Only listenable through spotify or go to their website for vinyl.


06/08/22 – INDiGO KLAN – OVER THE WOODS
digital and compact disc release (Indigo Klan Records)

Indigo Klan is a hip hop collective of independent creatives based in Houston, Texas – Anti-Lilly, GodKing Preach and Devante Hunter. The crew say about their album itself “Over The Woods is a state of mind we maintain coming from the underground. It’s hard to see your path thru the trees; so change the way you view that path.“
Featured producers and artists include: The Other Guys and Jack Freeman.

16/02/22 – KUOLEMAN TEATTERi – FAST WAY TO DiE
digital and vinyl release

These crust/metalpunks out of Leipzig, Germany, releases a split record with themselves. Fast Way To Die contains of an EP and a full lenght album. Both were recorded at raia records in Berlin – the EP in 2021 and the full lenght back in 2017. It is a classical mixture of great heavy punkrock, hardcore and crust.

24/10/21 – DiRTY ART CLUB – FMTI
digital Re-Master release (Paxico Records)

Dirty Art Club is a hip hop/lo-fi instrumental beat producer out of Charlotte, North Carolina. This album is Re-Mastered digitally pretty much one year after it was released through Paxico Records in October 2020. It consists of damn good sample-work and smart beats.

29/03/21 – WE SET SAiL – RiTUAL AND CEREMONY
digital and vinyl release (False Peak Records and Kill The Music)

We Set Sail is a five piece alternative rock crew out of Brisbane, Australia and releases their second album as a double. For this record it is a serving suggestion to find a good set of headphones and slow the fuck down to enjoy in a comfy beanbag.

26/03/21 – PiEFKE – PROBLEME
digital and vinyl release (Bakraufarfita Records)

Piefke produced their second album Probleme with Max from Glooven Recordings in Leipzig, Germnay, through the pandemic. This album consists of problems, anger and sarcasm – all in one smart german punkrock.

22/03/21 – AWON & PHONiKS – NOTHiNG LESS
digital and vinyl release (Don’t Sleep Records)

This is the newest studio album from hip hop group Awon & Phoniks based out of Newport News, Virginia, and the first full lenght since starring in the 2020 Netflix Documentation “Underdogs“. The songs were predominantly written under quarantine and center around political and social commentary of these tumultuous last few years.
Features include Masta Ace, Blu, Dephlow, Anti-Lilly, Tiff The Gift, Ill Conscious, Kid Abstrakt, DJ Ill Digitz, DJ Eveready, and Av Hamilton.

09/08/20 – KORROSiON – SPLiT w/SCHEISSE
digital and vinyl release (Zehnagel Records)

Korrosion is a new punkrock crew out of Berlin, Germany, and play fast melodical music with a kind of heavy guitar riffs and d-beat elements.

13/12/19 – DEAF LiNGO – FAiLURES/FRiENDS
digital release

These heavy rockers out of Milan, Italy, releases a two song single to continue where they left off after their full lenght Bug in 2017.

19/07/19 – BALAGAN – A MESS #2
digital and vinyl release (Duchess Box and Rood Woof Records)

Balagan is a fuzzy garagepunk band out of Berlin and releases their 2nd EP A Mess #2 digitally through Duchess Box Records and physically through Rood Woof Records.