pontiac returns to west mineral with a new album, "SONE GLO."
out 16 JUNE 2022
https://westmineral.bandcamp.com/album/sone-glo-ouest088

sone glo OUEST088 masters

Pontiac Streator – a2. Picture Of The Woods - Sone Glo (OUEST088)

Artist: TOT ONYX
Title: SENNO I
Format: LP / digital
Catalog no: iDEAL203
Edition: 300 black vinyl copies w postcard inlay
Release: NOW

Things that don't exist, that don't seem to exist, or we don't believe exist, might be the only things that actually exist.
Things that i always believed that existed, seem to be an illusion.
And things that i always denied the existence of in the past, seem to be what shape reality and rule the world.
But what is reality? And what is illusion?
Is the reality i am seeing the same as yours?
Perhaps not.

”Senno I” is the solo debut album by Tot Onyx aka Tommi Tokyo, who has been a founding member of the Japanese performance art/live electronics duo group A since 2012. They incorporated the use of the body in their noise & poetry-performances and they made some resonating appearances at festivals like Berlin Atonal. Adept at bending expectations, both live and recorded, the band’s formative early work echoes the experiential vocabulary in which Tommi continues to develop today. A practice in the rejection of tradition and cliché, which in Greil Marcus's words, "Share the principles of negation, rebellion, destruction and détournement”.

Tommi Tokyo has worked in graphic design and photography and has worked for theatre and other forms of stage arts. Tot Onyx is her deeply personal project which shares the founding energies of group A, but is traveling deeper and elsewhere. This is a rich study of her interior life.

Tot Onyx - Voice Calling

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Aotearoa-based record label @strangelovemusic - specialist in reissuing forgotten gems - drop the second outing of their compilation concept series 'Elsewhere Junior', curated by Belgian multi-faceted digger and producer soFa elsewhere.

Elsewhere Junior II

Naomie Klaus - How Do We Make The Babies [Strangelove Music]

KURT

We Slowly Riot

SLAM IS SLAM (keyboards by Pier Panico)

@novavarnrable

https://5gatetemple.com/

https://5gatetemple.bandcamp.com/album/pulling-away-that-have-or-just-couldnt-do-it-love-u

Nova Varnrable - 1. Storm (excerpt)

Écouter, c’est toujours un peu agrandir le monde. C’est recueillir des traces, accueillir l’inattendu, tisser des présences. Mais c’est aussi garder la mémoire des instants fugaces de ce qui bruisse, bat, résonne et se transforme.

Le 15 février à 19h, Phaune Radio ouvre encore une fenêtre sur des éclats d’ici et d’ailleurs : des battements d’ailes, des chants vibrants, des souffles et des frémissements, des lignes de forces, des mélodies éphémères et bientôt disparues.

À l’occasion des 20 ans de Sonatura, Grégoire Chauvot et Mélia Roger ont rassemblé ces instants de vie saisis par les membres de l’association. Chaque enregistrement, une empreinte sonore, un fragment de paysage vivant qui, en nous, continue d’évoluer.
Un cadeau inédit qu’ils nous font pour un bel anniversaire.
Alors, tendez l’oreille… et laissez ces mondes sonores vous traverser.

Avec des enregistrements de : Pascal Dhuicq, Olivier Pichard, Noémie Delaloye, Mélia Roger, Grégoire Chauvot, Lê Quan Ninh, Jean-Claude Gallard, Laurent Cros, Jean-Christophe Pratt, Dominique Carcreff, Denis Wagenmann, Colin Hunter, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Antoine Monségur

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Listening is always a way to expand the world a little. It means gathering traces, welcoming the unexpected, weaving presences. But it also means preserving the memory of fleeting moments—of what rustles, beats, resonates, and transforms.

On February 15 at 7 PM, Phaune Radio opens another window onto fragments from near and far: the beating of wings, vibrant songs, breaths and tremors, lines of force, ephemeral melodies soon to vanish.

To celebrate Sonatura’s 20th anniversary, Grégoire Chauvot and Mélia Roger have gathered these moments of life, captured by members of the association. Each recording is a sonic imprint, a fragment of a living landscape that continues to evolve within us.
A unique gift they offer us for a special anniversary.
So, open your ears… and let these soundscapes flow through you.

Featuring recordings by: Pascal Dhuicq, Olivier Pichard, Noémie Delaloye, Mélia Roger, Grégoire Chauvot, Lê Quan Ninh, Jean-Claude Gallard, Laurent Cros, Jean-Christophe Pratt, Dominique Carcreff, Denis Wagenmann, Colin Hunter, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Antoine Monségur

Ecoutes Vagabondes avec Sonatura

LUCIE ET NICO VONT EN BATEAU  w/ Lucie et Nico (08/04/25)

Toyfel777 - Drama - BeatsOhneRapVol1

B1 Congo Libre

Have You Been To Salford Shopping Centre, Have You Seen Argos?

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”.

SLAM IS SLAM (keyboards by Pier Panico)

Front de Cadeaux

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