We Slowly Riot

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG

http://en.ozonweb.com/ozon-sound/eats-my-eye-for-ozonsound

1/2 ov WAPAQ w/ @djblech 
1/2 of Factor 30 w/ @larmour
booking: diogo.xci@gmail.com

2025

27.09 Sala Lisa, Lisbon
30.09 Les Siestes Festival (After), Coimbra 
21.07 Boom Festival, Portugal
19.06 VEKTOR, Terraço Afonso Macedo, Coimbra
06.06 Sala Lisa, Lisbon
08.05 Vago, Lisbon
28.03 Sala Lisa, Lisbon
11.03 Desterro, Lisbon
28.02 as WAPAQ, Macadam Nantes, France

2024

27.12 259, Vila Real
20.12 Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
14.11 Vale Perdido, Sala Lisa, Lisbon
05.10 Rapture, Passos Manuel, Porto
23.08 Fala Nocturna, Miradouro de Baixo, Lisbon
26.06 Sala Lisa, Lisbon
22.06 Microclub, Lisbon
08.06 Harbour, Lisbon
24.05 Ócio w/ Dominik André & Nive, Lisbon
18.05 Rare Birds, Lisbon
04.05 Remexida, Algarve
25.04 Fuga, 259, Vila Real 
13.04 Vago, SUPERBAD w/ Elena Colombi, Lisbon
24.03 Secret Location, Lisbon
23.03 Desterro, Lisbon
24.02 Ócio, Lisbon
13.02 Vago, Lisbon
12.01 Bone Free, Caparica

2023
22.12 Ócio, Lisbon
15.12 Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
10.11 Skones Club, Lisbon
28.10 Lustre, Braga
28.10 Alinea A
27.10 Era Uma Vez, Porto
14.10 Oráculo Club, Seia
14.09 Lux Frágil b2b Khalil Suleman, Lisbon
02.06 Lux Frágil w/ HNRQ, Lisbon
26.05 Palms Dr. Bernard, Caparica       
21.05 MINISTERIUM CLUB, Lisbon
19.05 Crew Hassan, Lisbon
14.05 Harbour Music Shelter, Lisbon
05.05 Live Set, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon
22.04 Village Underground, Lisbon
13.04 Lifestyling Studio, Lisbon
10.03 Musicbox w/ Switchdance, Lisbon
27.01 Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
14.01 Fuse All In, Village Underground, Lisbon


2022
12.11 - Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
07.10 - Nachtvogel, Berlin
24.09 - Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
11.09 -  Harbour Music Shelter, Lisbon
13.08 - Bone Free, Caparica
29.07 - Pérola Negra, Porto
15.07 - Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon
10.06 - Lux Frágil w/ HNRQ, Lisbon
05.06 - Harbour Music Shelter Lisbon
19.02 - Harbour Music Shelter, Lisbon
29.01 - Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon


2021
04.12 - Frikk Club,  Porto
30.10 - Nada Temple, Lisbon
16.10 - Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon 
02.10 - Level Eight, Lisbon
24.11 - Harbour Music Shelter, Lisbon,
05.09 - Nada Temple, Lisbon, 
02.09 -  Level Eight, Lisbon 
24.07 - Nada Temple,, Lisbon 
21.05 - Nada Temple, Lisbon
15.05 - Harbour Music Shelter, Lisbon


2020
5.09 - Nada Temple,Lisbon, 
28.02 - Nada Temple, Lisbon
08.02 - La Haima, Benicarlo, Spain
11.01 - Bairrazza, Lisbon


2019
28.12 - Nada Temple,  Lisbon
31.10 -  Bairrazza, Lisbon
14.09 - Bairrazza, Lisbon
31.05 - Lux Frágil Superb: BSS, Lisbon
05.04 - East Side Radio, Lisbon
05.01 - EGO Rouge x Iñigo Vontier x Khalil Suleman, Rive Rouge, Lisbon

2018
28.11 - Rive Rouge, Lisbon 
16.11 - Europa Club, Lisbon
29.08 - Rive Rouge, Lisbon
16.08 - Europa Club Lisbon 
18.07 - Rive Rouge, Lisbon
29.06 - Bairrazza, Lisbon
08.06 - Bairrazza, Lisbon
19.04 - Europa Club, Lisbon 
10.03 - EKA Palace, Lisbon
10.02 - Infame Club, Lisbon



2017

07.12 - LXM 12 Years, HUB Criativo Beato, Lisbon, Portugal
27.06 - Bairrazza, Lisbon

Sharing/Remixing Tracks That Move Me 
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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”.