FRONT DE CADEAUX
Le Pédé BPM
File under: Slow Voodoo / Urban primivitism / Queer Freak

Front de Cadeaux was born in Bruxelles when roman Dj Hugo Sanchez met a Italo/Belgian guy called Dj Athome. The first touch was in the middle of a sauna party for big hairy men, hot and wet. Dirty sex and sweat dreams were just the click. They soon discovered that their music universe were created to become one. Both in love with the green psychedelia and both disappointed by the gay clubbing scene where people dance if only the bpm is at a very high and stupid speed level.

After having dirty sex, they spent days listening and sampling vinyls played at the wrong speed, discovering and enjoying the sexy power of the supreme “rallentamento”. Front de Cadeaux, a name that will leave Belgian’s fan of the band Front 242 astonished, confused and upset, started to create their own musical experiments that impressed Hugo Sanchez’s mate Rodion (his brother in the Alien Alien project), who put his poetic and supreme production touch on it.
Fabrizio Mammarella joined us after listening this manifesto called Le Pédé BPM. His energy was exactly what we needed to give you more acid.

We don't care of the BPM phags, we just want a world where the body and music makes love slowly all night long and we will fight a war to make it happen!

Catalogue: ROCCO07
Release Date: Early 2014
Release Format: Digital
Digital Distribution: GROOVEATTACK (Cologne)
Artwork: Harrison www.cave12.org/Harrisson

Track listing:
Le Pédé BPM (Original)
Le Pédé BPM (Fabrizio Mammarella Rmx)

@roccodisco
roccodisco@gmail.com

Le Pédé BPM (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)

Dubine podcast 42 dolazi u vidu vremenske kapsule koja svoje slušaoce prevozi iz 2022. u  2023. u trajanju od sedam sati.

Posebna mi je čast i privilegija da objavim sedmočasovni B2B miks koji su Schwabe i Maja Pa miksali na brodu 20/44, 31.12.2022.

Uzmite slobodan dan na poslu i preslušajte ovo nesvakidašnje remek delo 
koje vas neće smoriti ni jednog momenta.

Dubine podcast 42 comes in the form of a time capsule, which takes its listeners from 2022. to 2023. lasting seven hours.

It is an honor and a privilege to present a seven-hour long B2B mix which Schwabe and Maja Pa played on the boat 20/44, on 31.12.2022.

Take a day off from work and listen to this unordinary masterpiece, which will not bore you at any moment.


https://soundcloud.com/schwabe
https://soundcloud.com/cooliefruit

TASCAM DR-05

Schwabe b2b Maja Pa - Dubine Podcast #042

Ignacio Rosa, Costa Rican DJ, producer, and founder head of the label DISCOTECA NEGRA, now brings a raw and low hour with slow-commanding beats and a bold edge sound on classic hits and also showcasing material of his own label delivering an ideal backdrop for the high heavy heat.

https://soundcloud.com/ignacio_rosa

Disco Suicide Mix Series 121 - Ignacio Rosa

It’s done.  Kontrapunkt International is here.

With artists from all over the world, to listeners all over the world.  A double cassette release featuring artists from all six continents, from long-time collaborators to voices I’ve only recently discovered.

For this NEW HIT we bring you Doc Sleep. Long time Berlin resident now US-based she delivers you this loopy, hypnotic, groovy, melancholic summer tune.

Follow
https://soundcloud.com/docsleep 
https://soundcloud.com/kontrapunktsound/

BANDCAMP

NEW HIT: Doc Sleep - On Ice [Kontrapunkt]

ABST 042 - A-TWEED LP "Spring Music" LP

After several killer EPs and tracks on labels such as Tresor, Multi Culti, Hard Fist, or Playground Records, Antonio De Oto aka A-Tweed finally delivers "Spring Music" his first solo LP via Abstrakce Records, changing perspective on his music and way of producing.
A minimal approach, where echoes and reverbs become some of the main characters of the full journey, mixing up weird acid, experimental downbeat, electro, dub, and tribal vibes across a wide range of tempos.

Slow-motion beats pulse beneath swirling acid lines, while dubby echoes and reverberations sculpt a landscape that is both immersive and mysterious. A-Tweed’s meticulous production draws from the label’s tradition of organic textures and ambient vibes, yet carves a distinct path balancing deep bass, shimmering synths, and a subtle sense of psychedelia that lingers long after the needle lifts.

A cohesive journey, crafted for those who seek introspective voyages without giving up new forms of dancefloor communion. A manifesto about the power of slow rhythms, dub sensibilities, and acid-tinged experimentation, out of any hype and trend, aiming for a distinctive sound. An essential addition to the ever-evolving Abstrakce catalogue. The spring has just arrived.

FFO Tolouse Low Trax, Froid Dub or Sentuhlà.
Limited edition of 250 copies with risograph cover.

https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com/album/spring-music-2

https://soundcloud.com/antakaatweed
https://soundcloud.com/oltrefuturo
https://soundcloud.com/abstrakce

PREMIERE: A-Tweed - Chlodnik Clock (feat. Oltrefuturo) [Abstrakce Records]

It were as if he were looking at someone else, the water rippled beneath blurring his reflection making him question every little thing he thought he’d known.

Perhaps this was just his mind’s eye playing tricks upon him or maybe, just maybe, he was observing and witnessing the real thing for the first time.

Either way it was unnerving, if not slightly beautiful and alluring all in one.

He gazed out from upon the edge of the pier, what would it take just to jump off?

Bunzinelli is an artist we have kept a close eye on for some time now. The Canadian producer opts for eclectic downtempo and EBM infused sounds on this new record for Spanish record label Ediciones Villasonora.

PREMIERE: Bunzinelli - Mind's Eye [Ediciones Villasonora]

Mule Driver - Help Yourself (GRTW019)

По следам нашумевшего интервью, (https://youtu.be/MPBl5HXUKTI) встречайте 11-й выпуск нашего видеоподкаста, в котором Вова Strange FM прошелся по каталогу своего лейбла Analog Concept. Содержание соответствует концепту: полный аналог, треки Ivna Ji, Sinitsin, Domenic Cappello, Acidulant, Larionov, Nullptr внутри.

Видео: https://youtu.be/4eA7EWg5_Tk

Strange FM/Acid rain radio (11) (2025)

Episode 27 of Summoning podcast series is continued by Ilia Franz is a young selector from Hamburg, Germany.  Part of the Remoto-Rec. Team and the founder of RUM FISH.

SUMMONING PODCAST #27 - ILJA FRANZ

YT - u will be mist

The Cobra extends its skin to welcome Benedikt Frey and Yu Su to Thailand's Siamese Twin Records family.
Today we are excited to premiere the Space Cat Re-interpretation from the German producer, DJ, and founder of the Love Pain Sunshine & Rain Label, Benedikt Frey. Well known for his fearless production, Frey masterfully reworks the relatively straightforward Mogambo's Matum, released on Cobra EP in September 2020, into a dubby sci-fi-esque wormhole. Bit-by-bit re-creating a technogenic ambition of launching cosmic troopers cats to conquer outer space, Frey transforms the original track into a beautiful and trippy multi-dimensional collage inspired by the tribal leftfield sounds.

Mogambo Remixed w/ Yu Su & Benedikt Frey Remixes is out on Nov 16, 2020, via Siamese Twins Records. 

Benedikt Frey on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
Siamese Twins Records on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/siamesetwinsrecords
Siamese Twins Records on FB: https://www.facebook.com/siamesetwinsrecords



www.itsdelayed.com

PREMIERE: Mogambo - Matum(राजा)(Benedikt Frey's Space Cat Re-Interpretation) [Siamese Twins Records]

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”.