Throughout the last several years, our beloved Delayed platform has been growing. Each and every day, shining a spotlight upon fresh faces, storied veterans and everyone in between. Building relationships, introducing new ones, always striving to make a mark. Today, I’m overjoyed to help shine the spotlight upon the core of Delayed, the musical north star if you will, that is Gilles Wasserman and Irina Kotik aka Moon Patrol. Hearing and watching their journey deeper into production has been quite the ride. As time passed, each new snippet and track seemed more refined, more complex, more, dare I say, them? To see your friends hitting their stride is a special sight, made all the sweeter by the support they’ve given other artists in days past. I hope they feel a tenth of what they’ve given out.

Fresh off their Moofter release on Laura BCR’s ‘On Board Music’, Moon Patrol’s next offering, ‘Moxie’ dives deep into a world, rich with lush pads, warm percussion, all lending towards painting an auditory motif that would match any of those special morning moments. Ones where an all encompassing mist slowly gets burned away by a rising sun exposing the forest below. Almost as if the entire world was waking simultaneously.

Moxie is one part of a 14 track compilation named "Migung 미궁" being released on the fantastic South Korean-based label, Huinali Recordings at the end of this month. Moon Patrol will be joined by other Delayed favorites such as Adhémar, Inhmost, Doltz, Ocram Orchestra, Daniel[i], OWL, and more. 

Once again the Delayed family grows!


write up by Zach Huenink https://soundcloud.com/huedj

Moon Patrol on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/irina-kotik
https://soundcloud.com/gilleswasserman

Moon Patrol on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/kotikplus/
https://www.instagram.com/gilleswasserman/

Huinali Recordings on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/huinalidub
Huinali Recordings on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/huinalidub/


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PREMIERE: Moon Patrol - Moxie [Huinali Recordings]

BSS - Het Stenen Hoofd

Ali Renault's debut on Nocta Numerica (vinyl / digital)

Pre-order your copy here:

Bandcamp: bit.ly/3W3rLID

Syncrophone: bit.ly/3Fo8dcs
Clone: https://bit.ly/3DghFx1
Juno: bit.ly/3B5fk6L
Deejay: bit.ly/3B4t4yB
Decks: https://bit.ly/3DcLZZ8
HHV: bit.ly/3UFcPz9
Redeye: bit.ly/3iqicEN


Release date: 25/01/2023

Catalog number: NN024
Title: Stone Tape EP
Artist: Ali Renault
Distributed by Syncrophone (Worldwide)
Artwork: Christophe Le Gall
Mastering: Brassica

A1 - Gypsy Ritual
A2 - Her Kind
A3 - Minerva's Shrine
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B1 - U'Vaddit
B2 - Stone Tape

Ali Renault - Stone Tape

Enjoy our new Supreme Rallentato vol 6
https://frontdecadeaux.bandcamp.com/album/supreme-rallentato-volume-6

SR06 - Mascella Bella (87 BPM)

Here comes DALO’s Interpretation of Pose Dia’s Corner Of The City.
It´s a beautiful melancholic stomach pounder with an acid twist. 
Take a long breath, it’ll take you deep. Out Now on all digital platforms.
@daloworks @pose_dia

Pose Dia - Corner Of The City (DALO Remix)

Tassilo - Vanhöfen - Cauchereves (192k)

Hyper Breaks

Impro 130

Love Story - Olle Best Bootleg

River Yarra’s flaunts his signature palette of amphibious, minimalist squelch to reinterpret Ausecuma Beats.

'Keleh (River Yarra's Situationist Rework)' is out July 24th on Music In Exile.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3eO4Hao

@riveryarra
@musicinexileau

Premiere: River Yarra - Gnome Broth [Music In Exile]

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”.

SR06 - Mascella Bella (87 BPM)

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