Erst drosseln, dann schwofen (engl.: pitch down first, then dance) 
Downtempo productions from Hamburg, Germany

Die Drossel ist am Schwofen. Runter mit den Flügelschlägen pro Minute und abgeschwoft!

Wingbird of:
Knarzig (Hamburg)
Sober Sundays (DK) 
Turtur (Hamburg) 
@love-foundation (Hamburg)
@cosy-festival (Magdeburg) 

About Schwofdrossel: 
English version here: https://tr.ee/x65qjME0qS

Schwof-Route 2025:
17.12. ChristGrindelMarkt 18:30-21:45
13.12. Release auf @Katahaifisch
13.12. "All Clubkinder Are Beautiful" Bingo am Christgrindelmarkt

--> 𝕎𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 <-- 

07.12. Flausch am Sonntag im Turtur Club
03.12. ChristGrindelMarkt 18:30-21:45
29.11. Südpol, Hamburg
26.11. ChristGrindelMarkt 18:30-21:45
19.11. ChristGrindelMarkt 18:30-21:45
15.11. Hammonia Geburtstag, Hamburg
08.11. Soli Rave, Turtur, Hamburg
25.10. Love Foundation, Hafenklang, Hamburg
18.10. knarzig Turtur, Hamburg w/niklasecco
11.10. Module, Copenhagen
13.09. 48h Jenfeld Festival
14.-17.08. Waldzauber Festival
07.08. Hanseatische Materialverwaltung, Hamburg
10.-13.07. Cosy Festival w/ @niklasecco
05.07. Bølgen, Copenhagen
04.07. Module, Copenhagen
14.06. Cosy Festival Showcase, Magdeburg
05.-08.06. Skalar Festival (Skalahara)
01.06. Flausch am Sonntag, TurTur, Hamburg
01.06. Hammonia, Gängeviertel, Hamburg
31.05. Closing Rave der Bar 227, Hamburg
28.05. Knarzig: Himmel, knarz & Zwirn, TurTur w/ @niklasecco, Hamburg
27.04. Flausch am Sonntag w/Joe Carl, Hamburg
26.04. Letzter Tanz im Jupiter, Hanseatische Materialverwaltung, Hamburg
26.04. Skalar Kranich, Klunkerkranich, Berlin
22.04. Sic.nal Radio 
20.04. (Oster)-Sonntagsschwof, Bar 227, Hamburg
17.04.  Bis zum Tanzverbot, TurTur w/Batte aka. Jim & Knopf
05.04. Love Foundation, Hafenklang, Hamburg w/ @acktra
30.03. Flausch am Sonntag: Knarzig showcase, TurTur, Hamburg
15.03. Love Foundation, HMV im Exil, Hamburg
02.03. Flausch am Sonntag, Turtur, Hamburg
22.02. Re-Opening, Turtur, Hamburg
01.02. Expedition Südpol, Hamburg
30.01. Hanseatische Materialverwaltung

Bisherige Schwofroute A-Z: 
2024
Club Escargot (Amsterdam)
Hanseatische Materialverwaltung (Hamburg)
Le Big Tamtam (Hamburg)
Meeronauten @Villa Viva (Hamburg)
Module (København)
ØVSA Boat Party (København)
Release bei KRUG Records
Soli Sober Sundays (København)
Südpol (Hamburg)

2023:
1000 Türen @Schrödingers (Hamburg)
Karrusel Festival (København,DK)
Love Thy Neighbour (Cape Town, SA)
Module (København, DK)
Pavoia Festival (Poland)
Unklarbar (Lübeck)
Viertel vor Bremen Festival (Bremen)
Waagenbau (Hamburg)
Waldzauber Festival (Schleswig-Holstein)

2022:
Dans Open Air (Hamburg)
Unklarbar (Lübeck)
Waagenbau (Hamburg)

Über Schwofdrossel:
Schwofdrossel schafft mit seinem einzigartigen Stil eine mitreißende Mischung aus düsteren Beats, die das Publikum zum Tanzen einladen. 
Seine Sets sind voller Überraschungen und schaffen eine progressive Atmosphäre. Dabei kombiniert er runtergepitchte Dark Tech Produktionen mit eigenen Produktionen.
Er integriert verschiedene Genres in seine Sets, bleibt jedoch stets seinem roten Faden mit energetisch treibenden Beats treu. 
Gebürtig und wohnend in Hamburg engagiert sich Schwofdrossel neben seiner musikalischen Leidenschaft auch für Nachhaltigkeit im sozialen und ökologischen Bereich. Seine Veranstaltungen legen großen Wert auf Lösungen für Themen wie Awareness, Gender und soziale Gleichheit.

Mutoid sounds for bad spouts.

Fukstep is a movement linked to the sound system culture crossovers and all the hybridizations that new school has created. With an irreverent and inclusive approach to music and parties, it proposes projects that explore crossover and generative underground. 
Fukstep is a community, a label, a party, a curatorship and a message. It is the desire to create a new ecosystem within itinerant parties, proposing a model of a safer, more inclusive and accessible environment for everyone, which sees the sound mainly curated by queer artists and engineers, to convey a real model of participation.

Attempting slow-paced acoustic journeys.

Connected with https://soundcloud.com/kollektiv-equilibria
Often seen b2b with https://soundcloud.com/vellyn-zh
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Future:

04 Oct 2025: XXX, Dynamo, Zurich

Past:

04 Jul 2025 - Tuera by Alquimia, Swiss Mountains
15 Nov 2024 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
06 Sep 2024 - Mystic Creatures Festival
20 Apr 2024 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
13 Apr 2024 - Gypsy Birthday, Zurich
23 Mar 2024 - PACE, Kollektiv Equilibria, Zurich
02 Mar 2024 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
05 Jan 2024 - slow love, Kauz, Zurich
27 Oct 2023 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
20 Jul 2023 - Wurzelknorken Festival, Munich
06 Aug 2023 - Zweizeit, Berlin
20 Jul 2023 - Blue Blue, Laax
30 Apr 2023 - Tune For Tune, Zurich
06 May 2023 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
28 Apr 2023 - Wohnzimmerbar, Zurich
18 Feb 2023 - Zwielicht, Kollektiv Equilibria, Zurich
14 Aug 2022 - Wurzelknorken Festival, Munich

DJ, Producer, Vinyl Archivist concocting infernal brews of dance-floor classic edits served up for today’s most demanding clubs and DJs. Nothing is off-limits for Les, ready to add his own distinctive energized groove to the best tracks from various genres. Disco, Funk, Jazz, Rock and Soul: jams that one would not have expected to hear on the dance-floor are transformed into floor filler bangers.

Tribal • Sexy • Esoteric • Dancefloor

Mondocane is a sonic explorer, traversing the realms of tribal electronica, global bass, cosmic disco, psychedelic downtempo and slow trance. His tracks are like dusty relics trapped in the sparks of the future, weaving together eclectic sounds from across the globe. Based in Rome, Mondocane has spent nearly twenty years as an indefatigable musical provocateur and aficionado of global sounds, on a mission to uncover the rhythms trapped in the urban jungle.

Releases on:
@ivreatronic
@epicure-rec
@playgroundrecords
@kosamusica
@hupupa_rec
@global-hybrid-records
@lump-rec
@cosmovisionrecords
@pescheria
@ohxalarecords
@harabelab
@shango-records
@latempesta

enquiries:
andrea.mondocane@gmail.com

contact us: frontdecadeaux@gmail.com
book us: https://culte.be/agency/front-de-cadeaux

ven., 21 juin 2019 /
Mannequin Records Nacht Xll at ​Berghain | Panorama Bar | Säule / Berlin, Germany

ven., 07 juin 2019 /
Club Nuit: Front de Cadeaux / Diana Alma / Discolowcost at ​Le Lieu Unique / Nantes / West, France

sam., 01 juin 2019 /
Nuits Sonores 2019 / Night 4 at ​Old Fagor-Brandt Factories / Lyon, France

sam., 27 avr. 2019 /
Anarchy At The Bar - Hugo Sanchez - Lola Kola at ​Coropuna / Rome, Italy

mer., 17 avr. 2019 /
Listen! Festival 2019 at ​Horta Gallery / Brussels, Belgium

sam., 23 févr. 2019 /
Megatron: Front De Cadeaux at ​Opium Club / Lithuania

sam., 19 janv. 2019 /
Liquid /w. BNJMN, Simple Symmetry, Housemeister & More at ​Salon Zur Wilden Renate / Berlin, Germany

The origins of Front de Cadeaux can be traced back to a dating site for bears, some ten years ago. After Maurizio had spotted a Felix Kubin poster on one of Ugo's pictures, the two started chatting. Very much intrigued, Ugo invited Maurizio, who lives in Brussels, to play at a festival he organised in Rome. Shortly thereafter Ugo made Maurizio a resident of his Subwoofer night, one of the first bear parties in Europa that existed outside of the mainstream bear realm.

The two bonded over food of course, over their belief that dance culture is rotting from the inside, and even more over slow, heavy electronic music. You have to picture it: a flat in Brussels, a table with empty bowls and bottles, thick smoke and these two daddy dj’s listening to stacks and stacks of UK rave and breakbeat records on 33 instead of 45 rpm. Testing how deep and sexy these garbage records sound at a pace the bears can actually follow without dropping dead – Ugo & Maurizio baptised it ‘supreme rallentato’.

During those early encounters, their decade long dj experience merged into one, just like their vision that dance culture urgently needs a revolution. To them that means playing 90 bpm in a club at 3am whilst the promoters are shitting themselves, showing everyone that the body follows the groove, and not the bpm, a capitalist and macho construct that’s making crowds go numb instead of making them dance.

Around 2013, they officially started collaborating as Front de Cadeaux, referring to the Italian way of pronouncing Front 242, the Belgian EBM legends. “Le pédé BPM” (the bpm gay), their first release, followed one year later, with a Fabrizio Mammerella remix that kind of became an anthem in some circles. It's at the same time a celebration of their love for a slower groove as it is a queer manifesto, dissociating themselves from the mainstream gay culture in big cities, dominated by a horrible attitude and bad taste both in music and style. Second single “Infodrogue” came about after the drug line Maurizio worked at, stopped operating after midnight. Backed up by a bubbling bassline, it's telling the sad tale of a junk calling in and no-one answering. The references to culture and real life are everywhere, be it in the track titles of later releases – “Ouvre ta bouche” is a joke about Kate Bush, “Cogitate” a hommage to lsd wizard John C. Lilly – or their sound, which is impregnated by psyche music, mushrooms, dub, triphop and space rock.
Coming hot on the heels of the collaboration ep with long time friend Fabrizio Mamarella earlier this year, featuring their two oldest singles appearing on vinyl for the first time, came Front de Cadeaux’ new 12” on EMET records. “We slowly rot” is a manifesto and an epistemological breakdown of standard, empty club music, for in order to reconnect with what it should be about, our whole idea of dance music has to be deconstructed. As Front de Cadeaux militantly puts it: “every act of the human being is about transformation through destruction”.

⟣ Music and Artist Collective based in Berlin ⟣

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Events

09|05|25 BeYond x Serafin, Beate Uwe
05|06|25 Skalar Festival, Helenesee
20|03|25 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
09|03|25 Kaschemme, Basel (CH)
07|03|25 Wuza x BeYond, Secret Location (Berlin)
15|11|24 BeCozy, Beate Uwe
25|10|24 8 Years Wuza, Secret Location
11|10|24 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
06|09|24 BeYond @ Mystic Festival
18|08|24 BeYond @ gART.n
07|06|24 Sternfest, Helenesee
20|05|24 Rebellion der Träumer, Festsaal
09|05|24 BeYond @ Abstrakt (Mensch Meier)
16|03|24 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
09|02|24 BeCozy by BeYond, Beate Uwe
09|12|23 BeYond Showcase @ Acid Bogen, Kater Blau
23|09|23 Mensch Meier w/ Mystic Creatures
08|09|23 Mystic Creatures Festival, Poland
31|08|23 Conscious Madness Festival
12|08|23 Klunkerkranich w/ Mystic Creatures
23|07|23 BeFruity, gART.n
09|06|23 Sternfest, Mellensee
12|05|23 BeHome, Beate Uwe
14|04|23 BeHome, Beate Uwe
24|02|23 BeHome, Beate Uwe
20|01|23 BeYond x down., Christa Kupfer
15|12|22 BeHome, Beate Uwe
24|11|22 BeHome, Beate Uwe
27|10|22 BeHome, Beate Uwe
02|09|22 Trips&Ticks x BeYond, Mensch Meier
18|08|22 Bucht der Träumer, Helenesee
21|07|22 Paradise Garage, Renate, Berlin
29|05|22 Sage Beach, Berlin
29|04|22 The Morph x BeYond, Christa Kupfer
10|04|22 Wuza, Sage Beach/Watergate
02|10|21 Closing Event, Schallplatte
25|09|21 Trancevision Festival, H13
18|09|21 Freaking Birthday, Schallplatte
04|09|21 Platte deck dich, Schallplatte
14|08|21 Grand Opening, Schallplatte
24|10|20 Mystic Forest Festival, H13
02|08|20 BeYond, Anomalie
29|02|20 Mystic Creatures, Mensch Meier
14|02|20 Wuza in einer Bucht

Where it all began
2018-2020 	BeHome, Beate Uwe

⟣ Promo and booking inquiries: 
jacques@beyond.berlin

⟣ Artists & Friends
• Antaares https://soundcloud.com/antaares
• Audae https://soundcloud.com/audaemusic
• BASSARA https://soundcloud.com/bassaramusic
• Chele https://soundcloud.com/che_le
• David Rausch https://soundcloud.com/davidrausch
• ᴰᴿᏇคཞɬє:๓คᏝ https://soundcloud.com/drwartemal
• El Batos https://soundcloud.com/elbatos
• Faber https://soundcloud.com/faberbeatz
• Gabriel Soma https://soundcloud.com/gabriel-soma
• HANNES https://soundcloud.com/greenhornmusic
• 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 https://soundcloud.com/harrycharles
• Janoma https://soundcloud.com/janoma
• Jolasol. https://soundcloud.com/jolasol
• Judith Ahrends https://soundcloud.com/judith-ahrends
• Kahl & Kæmena https://soundcloud.com/kahl-kaemena
• KAYAM https://soundcloud.com/kayamband
• Lagomo https://soundcloud.com/lagomo
• Landhouse https://soundcloud.com/landhouse
• LangLang https://soundcloud.com/alexoslang
• Malü & Kalypsoul https://soundcloud.com/maluinator
• Mike Rauss https://soundcloud.com/mikerauss
• Niju https://soundcloud.com/niju-1
• Ninze https://soundcloud.com/ninze
• Ouhana https://soundcloud.com/ouhana
• picão https://soundcloud.com/pi_cao
• Rakäthe https://soundcloud.com/thisisrakaethe
• Reyneke https://soundcloud.com/reyneke
• Robin Dey https://soundcloud.com/robin_dey
• R o l a n d s o n https://soundcloud.com/rolandson
• San Miguel https://soundcloud.com/san-miguel-berlin
• Schnuppo https://soundcloud.com/schnuppo
• Seyde https://soundcloud.com/seyde-music
• Shepherd https://soundcloud.com/shepherd_music
• to be honest.. https://soundcloud.com/tobias-honest
• Tonda https://soundcloud.com/tonda_music
• true nature https://soundcloud.com/truenaturemusic
• Urem https://soundcloud.com/urem
• Vincent Gericke https://soundcloud.com/vincentgericke
• zhart https://soundcloud.com/zhart
• Zoe Reijue https://soundcloud.com/zoe-reijue

⟣ Artwork and Logodesign
PACAYA - http://www.elpacaya.com

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