Benedikt Frey (Serious Trouble / R-i-O //Berlin)
@freybenedikt

Illustration:
@steviewhisper

Benedikt Frey says Yes.

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)

Fast or slow, dubbed out or stripped back, it doesn't matter as long as it's a journey. E1 sees Nak and DJ Rain locked into the 140bpm dubstep realm.

Errare E1 with Nak & DJ Rain ~ Skylab Radio

a self-released mix series with music i enjoy outside of the club. the first one includes my current fave downtempo tracks in the trip hop realmss:‘) it's an early lil gift for valentines dayzzz. this goes out to all the couples, trouples, singles, lovers, friends, family, besties, soulmates, pet snuggles, heartthrobs, crushes, secret admirers, hopeless romantics, exes, future lovers, "it's complicated" ones, maybe-not-yet-but-soon-to-be 's and to those who need a little extra love today, tomorrow and always.

art by sophie sweetland

tracklist >>>>>

Saffron Bloom - Labyrinth of Losses (forthcoming on Delicate Records)
4E - Warm Leatherette
Maelita - Significant other
Saffron Bloom - Dirge of the Lonely (forthcoming on Delicate Records)
Birdsnake - The Redeemer (It's Dawn Again Remix)
Kincaid - 71122.0 (Stone Remix)
Stone - Blurry Apple
james K - Blinkmoth (July Mix)
Paradise 3001 - Blue Lava
Peace Of Dream - Past (Stoned Roses Mix) 
Tonito Yama - Natural Synthesis feat. Naomie Klaus & lux18
Georgia Bird & DJ NAWG - Lord Slugg's Chuggy Dub
???
The Black Dog - Raxmus

silk flower ~ vol. 1  ✿ ❁ ✿ ❀

Sounds Of Ogigia is Pako Vega's label—a portal into psychedelic soundscapes and the hidden corners of the mind, drawing inspiration from Greek mythology. The label finds its roots in the show of the same name, which aired on Edinburgh’s EHFM from 2018 to 2023. Praised for its dreamy, ritualistic, and otherworldly selections, it captivated listeners and carved out a unique sonic space.


Sounds Of Ogigia w/ Pako Vega @ Kiosk Radio 06.04.2025

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deep creep @ Kiosk Radio 04.05.2025

Another lovely memoir of friendship here with the ever talented Swiss artist phrex, who works under various aliases, including @seduction-dream-dust, with Animix #174. Juj is a beautiful person inside and out and his musical outputs are a reflection of his multifaceted character - often referencing his middle eastern heritage. In his animix, a wild dnb speed journey, filled with adventure and emotion, awaits.

Beyond political and social nods, phrex has an inredible ability to merge genres and styles in a way that remains seemingly fresh and unique - which, in 2025,  is harder and harder to come by. We originally met at random, as I strolled past a stage whilst he was playing an ambient set at Waking Life in 2022. The self-made remix of "Alone" by Olive he was playing drew me in and led me to ask for an ID. in return, he gifted me a cassette of the song. A beautiful memory of music exchange and friendship, and i'm really happy to finally have him in the series.

Lots of love - thank you Juj!

Downloads enabeld.

Animix One Hundred & Seventy Four: phrex

@son-du-maquis (excerpt)

Photo: Romain Guede

sòn du maquís (live) at pe:rsona 2024

Liya Tesfaye : Take Over Nuits Sonores @ Satriale - 31 Mai 2025

Eora’s dub-techno tastemaker Command D and Naarm’s harmoniser of the emotive and abstract Zara combine for Gravity Reset, a collaborative four-tracker on Butter Sessions.

Both producers are equally nestled with love into Australia’s underground, with releases on beloved labels like Animalia and Pure Space. Command D also boasts refined live sets heaving in sub-bass, while Zara's celebrated for boundary-blurring productions and her Kinesis imprint championing the local scene. On Gravity Reset, they meet in lockstep, delivering trance-inducing offerings rooted in a shared love of rhythm, space and subtlety seeded with dub minimalism and introspective, tech-driven sound design.The titular track 'Gravity Reset' sets the tone with a deep, persistent kick, reverberated snares, and a low-end that twists and lifts. 'Cascadia' introduces pad warmth and light percussion, where laughter weaves into the mix, adding a human touch to the dub-soaked cut. '2Pulse' brings expressive congas and dubby psychedelia into dialogue with the wubs, before The Fog closes in a haze of phasing hats and musky bass.

A collaboration for the ages. What they mean when they say #deep.
credits
releases July 18, 2025

Mastered by Corey Kikos
Artwork by Maryos Syawish
Words by Margarita Bassova

Command D & Zara - Gravity Reset (BSD08)

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”.