Benedikt Frey (@freybenedikt) has been on a journey of musical adventure and exploration over the last 15 years. He has made everything from deepest house to bottomless dub, UK jungle to irresistible edits of Notorious BIG. Those early forays came on labels like Nous'klaer Audio and Hivern Discs but in the years since the German has looked more to industrial and post-punk for inspiration. His Fastlane album on ESP Institute this summer blended those vibes with his own take on techno and resulted in his most accomplished and singular work yet. 

Now, the Lopasura label head steps up with an extra special two-hour mix that peers into the farthest corners of his sound. It is the sort of all-consuming trip that plays out like a mind movie as it works through serval different chapters - some heady and deep, some direct and unsettling, always with great control. Whether laying down electro, wave, techno or serious bass weight, Benedikt Frey is always taking you somewhere new.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 446 - Benedikt Frey

Recorded by @freybenedikt in anticipation of Kappa Futur Festival in Torino from July 5 to July 7. Go to bit.ly/KappaFrey to read the interview.

Benedikt Frey – Kappa Futur 2024 Mix

New explorations in sounds from one of the most esteemed selectors in Europe, Lena Willikens.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/homunkuli/episodes/homunkuli-15th-august-2024

Homunkuli w/ Lena Willikens 150824

Live Dj set recorded at Fanfulla (Rome, IT)
13 September 2024

Al Fanfulla

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Sacha Mambo at Outline 2024 / Neon Stage

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Live Set 29/03/2025
Цим сетом Дмитро транслює легкість буденності у звучанні. Не конкретизує один настрій, скоріше поєднує полярність. Сьогодні тобі весело самому, а завтра сумно в компанії. А буває просто норм.

Video version: https://youtu.be/XBCAd_h7f4k

Artist: Thongvor | Woohaa!, Kyiv, Ukraine  
https://soundcloud.com/thongvor/
https://www.instagram.com/thongvor/

Woohaa! Records: 
https://soundcloud.com/woohaa-records
https://woohaa.bandcamp.com/music

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https://www.kulturazvuka.com.ua/
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https://soundcloud.com/kulturazvuku/

Thongvor — Kultura Zvuku #114 [Live]

I have tried to convey as accurately as possible the sensations of this syndrome that I had to experience in the first few years after the injury, and them still can come in any time... Dedicated to everyone to get know how is to be mentally alive and dead at the same time...

I Hear Weird Noize Patterns

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"Vladimir Ivkovic pays tribute to the French DJ and record collector, with a selection of slow trance edits and extended dancefloor jams.
This month, Vladimir Ivkovic pays tribute to French DJ and music obsessive Alexis Le-Tan, whose disco edits are the stuff of legend. He has reshaped vintage gems via the Les Edits du Golem imprint since 2007; around the same time, Permanent Vacation tapped him (along with co-conspirator Jess) to put together the much-loved Space Oddities compilations, which collected rare European library grooves from the late ’70s and early ’80s. More recently, Le-Tan teamed up with Joakim and III-Studio as Full Circle, another edit-based undertaking devoted to celebrating choice selections from the original Goa sound. Make yourself comfortable for two hours of edits and extended plays from one of the finest choppers." First aired on 11 Mar 2019 on www.redbullradio.com

Vladimir Ivkovic - Lunatic Love Songs Songs 8 For Red Bull Radio - Psychonautics With Alexis Le Tan

1. Joachim Witt - Ich Fahr' Nach Afrika (ALT For Afrika)
2. Blancmange - Vishnu (no ALT edit)
3. Sladjana Milosevic - Neko Je Tu (Kompleks edit for WOW)
4. Different Ways from Wonders Ovze World
5. Eternal - Mind Odyssey (ALT edit for WOW)
6. Don't Laugh - Gas (ALT edit for WOW)
7. Astral Projection - In-Novation (ALTC cut)
8. The Path from Wonders Ovze World
9. Alexis Le-Fan - Pune (Bahnsteig 23)
10.What Edit Is This? (Le-Fan Extension)
11.Genetic - Transmission (Full Circle Submission edit)
12.Idoli - Moja si (ALT edit for WOW)
13.Voodoo Youth - Slow Down The Future (ALTC cut)
14.Alexis Le-Fan - Hubli (Bahnsteig 23)
15.Etnica - Chemical Trance (ALTC cut)
16.Koxbox - Insect (ALTC cut)
17.Psychaos - Soundbeams (ALTC cut)
18.N-Tropic - One Night Stand (ALT&KB Fix)
19.Juno Reactor - High Energy Protons (No ALT edit)

Lunatic Love Songs 8 For Red Bull Radio // Alexis Le Tan

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”.

Al Fanfulla

Front de Cadeaux

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