2. Velmondo & Iro Aka - Subtraction

Front De Cadeaux - Sad Is Fashion

Release Date: 23 February 2022

On their way from Roma to Brussels, Maurizio and Ugo AKA Front de Cadeaux (F2C) made a little stop in Paris to slow down the beat at Antinote.

We are thrilled to come back after a little break with the first EP from these two big boys on the label. For our first release of 2022 we offer the double smasher "Sad is Fashion" and "Trans Emois", two heavy and slow club weapons. These two rockets will please techno and trance heads as well as bass, dubstep lovers.

Antinote have been fans of F2C since their collaboration with Lexidisques in 2016 and of course their limited edition hit "La Ketamine” which was released 2 years laters by Emet.

Hope you'll enjoy the very simple style and straight to the point club music as much as we do as there is more to come from Front de Cadeaux on the label later this year.


Tracklist:
A. Trans Émois feat. Rodion
B. Sad Is Fashion

SAD IS FASHION EP

Sad Is Fashion

Human Endeavour Records, the newest member of the Ransom Note Records label family, returns with ‘Confession Time’, its second release and first solo artist EP from DJ, vocalist and producer Anastasia Zems.

Four tracks of heads down, mid-tempo sludge that sees her thread the needle between acid, EBM, new beat and cold wave.

On the inspiration behind the EP, Anastasia explains: “Behind each of the tracks there is a story about something personal. It so happens that my vocals usually appear in tracks during improvisation and most often do not change. This is my way of expressing feelings. It turns out that this is the time for confession.”

'Confession Time' will be released digitally on 4th November 2022. Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/HE002AnastasiaZems

Artwork by Andrey Kinley AKA Panorama Channel.

@anastasiazems 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anastasiazems
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anastasiazemsss

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanendeavourrecs/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humanendeavourrecs/

Confession Time

Anastasia Zems - 'Confession Time' [HE002]

An unreleased collaboration between Xen & Yovav. One of 2 tracks recorded in Uhrwarld Orange Studio and produced by Sebastian Lee Philipp in the winter of 2017/2018. 
The two songs, Blue & Cats will be released as part of the Sheva compilation, celebrating 7 years of Malka Tuti's existence.

Xen & Yovav - BLUE

https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-dub-without-illusion?label=249009462&tab=music

Ahead of their Love Without Illusion album, Pleasure Pool release the title track as a digital single along with a dub version which is exclusive to this release. Love Without Illusion is a highlight of any Pleasure Pool live sets and while it is not a cover version, it does channel the vibrations of Imagination’s classic 80’s hit Just An Illusion. 100% hypno deepness for both club and non club use.

https://www.youtube.com/c/OptimoMusic/videos
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100039176114488
https://twitter.com/OptimoMusic
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/pleasurepool
https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pleasure_pool/

OM LP 24 S1 - Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion / Dub Without Illusion

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

— Frederick Sanger

https://soundcloud.com/konsistent

Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/aliciacarrera

PREMIERE⚡Konsistent - Grybų Panelė [Electric Shapes]

BUY LINK: https://hannah-lee.bandcamp.com/album/transiciones
Hannah Lee - Transiciones (full EP out March 10)
Label: Pronoia Souvenirs (https://soundcloud.com/pronoiasouvenirs)
https://soundcloud.com/hannahleemusica

Güera, an abstract exploration of identity without any particular conclusion, combines the sounds of digital keyboard percussion, white noise, and two different electric organs while playing with vibrato, delay feedback, and other analog production techniques to create the soundtrack to a time of particular uncertainty in the artist’s life. As the drums sound, distort, and glitch out in an expression of extreme volatility, the melody maintains balance and sounds strikingly innocent at times, and powerful at others. The organs twist and turn throughout the track, transforming themselves through phases of suspense, liberation, and finally into the unsettling sound of a woman singing (or screaming).

Hannah Lee is a producer, sound artist, and DJ from LA, currently based in CDMX. Their work explores the introspective and corporeal possibilities of music and sound by weaving sonic textures built from field recordings, analog instruments, and other found noises. The ever-evolving producer has launched sound experiments in a variety of formats, from long-form ambient projects like their collaboration with Colombian gaita player El León Pardo - 'Y que es el sol para ellos, sino algo que produce sombras?' - to their happy-go-melancholy EP 'Cosas Finas' on the Brazilian label Voodoohop, to club singles in collaboration with Hermetics (Multi Culti) and NTFL (CTM).

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Hannah Lee - Güera

An intriguing and revealing hypnotic immersion from the enigmatic duo https://soundcloud.com/juna_musik.

"Archetipo" explores the landscapes of the unconscious.
The word "persona" in Latin means mask: thus the personality, the scenery of the ego, is transformed into a theatre of archetypal images, merging word and music, like a rhetorical figure, a synesthesia. The aesthetic-musical research is a poetic-sound journey into the psyche, to tell and celebrate it.

Composed, arranged, produced, and mixed by https://soundcloud.com/nathan-dawidowicz.
Lyrics and vocals by https://soundcloud.com/juri-corrado.

Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/amidkibar.
Mastered by Sergey Luginin.

Archetipo

Snippets : JUNA - Archetipo [SRNDS004]

DSNTMTTR

SPILL

London Flavour

Satisfaction (Povinicin VIP remix)

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”.