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

Trans Emoi

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

The MaryJaneStory

WAKE UP

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Manuel Costela
Exclusive on Bandcamp.
Premiere of next album "Returning To Sound" Bucketround Records 2025.

Download

Manuel Costela - It's Not Over

Melbourne party troupe, Animals Dancing return with the label’s sixth disc, Psytube; a mind-melting trip from Lyon duo, The Pilotwings. 

The synth-heavy house pair, synonymous with the BFDM label channel their digi synth euphoria into trance not trance and acid atmospheres across a four track EP. 

From the subtle breaks and pan flute/acid combo of Trance En Aubrac, steady synth flutter of Future Glouglou to the full tilt restless psychedelia of Yakado and cinematic acid stepping Gig in the Ocean, 

The Pilotwings once again showcase their tongue in cheek nods to the past with production launching into the future.

Released March 29 2019 - Distributed by Wordandsound, Germany

A1. Trance En Aubrac

LSW is the product of musical collaborations between Leonard Horres, Sebastian Welicki and Gregor Darman. Recorded in Düsseldorf 2018.

CNDBMLE 003: LSW - Life Style West

Thick Pigeon was, apparently, 'a walk through the civilization of your soul'. And Miranda really is very fan of dogs.

Thick Pigeon - Dog (1982, Les Disques Du Crépuscule)
Long Edit by Athome

As played on NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE:  I'm a Cliche's bi-monthly radio show on Rinse FM France.
 https://soundcloud.com/imacliche/no-weapon-is-absolute-11

Thick Pigeon - Dog (Athome Edit)

Microdosing Vol. 4 
1. Strapontin feat. Andy Rantzen - Join The Earth
2. Benedikt Frey - CNDY
3. Joakim - Macrodose

Release 18.06.20 on Bandcamp / 26.0620 on other digital platforms. 

@strapontin
@joakimbouaziz
@freybenedikt

In those dire times, the strange has to be counted as a revolutionary force. Microdosing Vol. 4 is an antidote to the sterile streams and dreams, confined ideas and lobotomising nostalgia.

We create multiple portals to individualities standing up against the new normal, our shared pineal gland opening a communal spontaneity.

Strapontin’s Join the Earth provides you with a psychedelic map to a better world, providing you accept to get lost along the way. The path to a better world is inside your mind.

Benedikt Frey’s CNDY could be the anthem of our New Model Army. This is a marching beat but to a mental guerilla. No ranks, no leader, just a will in action.

Joakim’s Macrodose is our non-order come true, the refusing of the new normal as a sabbath dance of electronic witch drums.

Be Safe! 
We know we are, but our music never will be.

(Words by Ivan Smagghe)

https://microdosing.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/microdosingvolumes/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2EqZ1sgMnVCsdPdXBVBzqP

Microdosing Vol. 4

Microdosing Vol. 4 [MDSG004] SNIPPETS

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TFGCX - 10 Jahre TFGC

It all started many moons ago during a night at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf, where the courage and motivation and most important off all the music was found to start a label.
Themes for great cities.

That was 2009.
Fast foward 10+ years you have the most prominent tracks of that specific Düsseldorf based time period on one record.
For all the already fans to enjoy in one ride and for all the people just discovering us, you’re welcome.

from now on all future releases will be available through @rush-hour-store / Rushhour Distribution > https://www.rushhour.nl/
ask your local recordstore to order via rushhour distribution

TFGCX (TFGC019) - A1 Wolf Müller - Dickicht (LP Edit)

contact us: frontdecadeaux@gmail.com
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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”.