https://soundcloud.com/cheffoptimal is an obscure sound engineer finding his way into Vilnius's nightlife scene. 

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YAGA'25 Valley Stage | Cheff Optimal

Gemayel is a Vilnius-based DJ and graphic designer whose sets move between downtempo, hypnotic rhythms, and introspective techy grooves. Shaped by a conservatory background and a deep connection to Lithuania’s club scene, she blends discipline and intuition in her sound as a resident at Opium Club and Gallery 1986.

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YAGA'25 Valley Stage | Gemayel

Balearic Banana, Berlin based duo dj, mix series and music channel follow the origin of the balearic mantra “anything goes” and this time, at the RBL.LAB they invite Lazar ( @lazar229 ) to share his definition of Balearic ✨

Thanks Marvin ( @djrotwein ) for putting this altogether 🧡

Balearic Banana w/ Lazar | BRL-18012025

Koneliūnas, a Vilnius-based versatile digger renowned for his warm, organic, and soul-moving selections. His delicate and hypnotic melodies weave together into a multiplicity of sounds, creating diverse-paced soundscapes that resonate deeply. Each track invites you to explore the depths of musical expression in Pinegrove Yaga'25.
@koneliunas

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YAGA'25 Pinegrove Stage | Koneliūnas

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Kiosk Radio is an online community radio and streaming platform broadcasting 24/7 from a wooden kiosk in the heart of Brussels’ historic 'Parc Royal'. 



We Slowly Rot w/ DJ Athome @ Kiosk Radio 18.04.2025

Another expedition into the fourth world, or is this one the fifth… A place where the spirits of the past come together with those of the future, where haunted ambient and ghostly dubbed out rhythms make you trance out to the world unknown, where esoteric brings you down to earth… Can you still follow? Maybe just listen and get lost.

The Other Side 92, Lyl Radio 13/05/2025

https://soundcloud.com/inga-vy: Turned out a high-energy, unpolished, club-focused mix. Expect plenty of broken beats and raw, industrial electro. Inspired by my recent trip to the Intergalactic FM festival in The Hague—some old favourites mixed with new finds. Not for your chilled afternoon listening; more like a sweaty workout session

Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/oniss

INGA has been exploring music for over a decade but only recently stepped behind the decks herself. Based in Vilnius, she gravitates towards underground sounds—electro, acid, and breaks—with a love for sharp rhythms and raw energy.

LAYER #432 | Inga

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IT'S NOT A GAME

It's not a game

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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”.

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